Memorial, Houston, Texas
| Memorial, Houston | |
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| Super Neighborhood of Houston, Texas | |
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| Coordinates: 29°46′52″N 95°32′45″W / 29.7811°N 95.5459°WCoordinates: 29°46′52″N 95°32′45″W / 29.7811°N 95.5459°W | |
| Country |
 United States
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| State |
 Texas
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| County | Harris County |
| City |
 Houston
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| Area | |
| • Total | 10.75 sq mi (27.8 km2) |
| Population (2013) | |
| • Total | 44,413 |
| • Density | 4,131/sq mi (1,595/km2) |
| Time zone | Central Time Zone (CT) |
| ZIP codes | 77079, 77024 |
| Area code(s) | 281, 832, 713, 346 |
| Website | memorialsn.org |
The Memorial area of Houston, Texas is located west of Downtown, northwest of Uptown, and south of Spring Branch. The Memorial Super Neighborhood, as defined by the City of Houston, is bounded by Buffalo Bayou to the south, Barker Reservoir to the west, the Katy Freeway (Interstate 10) to the north, and the Memorial Villages (Spring Valley Village, Piney Point Village, Bunker Hill Village, Hedwig Village, Hilshire Village and Hunters Creek Village), a contiguous group of independent municipalities, to the east.
The Memorial area is well-known for its forested neighborhoods which straddle the Buffalo Bayou, which feature a rich variety of residential architecture. The area is also home to a number of dense mixed-use districts, including Memorial City, Town & Country Village, and CityCentre. A large portion of the Energy Corridor, a major business district populated by many energy corporations, overlaps with west Memorial along Eldridge Parkway. Memorial takes its name from Memorial Drive, a major east-west thoroughfare which bisects the area.
Prior to annexation by Houston, the Memorial area consisted of large country estates and farmland. In the mid-1940s, the town of Addicks relocated to the western edge of the area after the construction of Addicks Reservoir by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers inundated the original townsite. This same flood control project, completed in the 1950s, created Barker Reservoir to the west of the area and channelized Buffalo Bayou from State Highway 6 to Beltway 8.
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