Talk:Greater Houston/Archive 1

New Census Designation
The U.S. Census designation for the Houston Metropolitan Area is no longer Houston&mdash;Galveston&mdash;Brazoria. The new designation is now Houston&mdash;Sugar Land&mdash;Baytown as of November 2004. -- UH Collegian

New Map Request
Can someone please replace the image for the area coverage of this metropolitan area? I do not know how to do it nor do I know where to get the image. As of 2003, the metropolitan area covers 10 counties instead of the map showing only eight counties. Any help is appreciated! UH Collegian 08:12, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Naming conventions
UHC, I've noticed that you have redirected Houston Metropolitan Area to Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown Metropolitan Area. I personally disagree with this change. While it may be a more technically correct naming style, it's not what anybody refers to it as and probably is not what anybody is going to link to it as, which is going to mean a huge headache. It will mean regularly checking Houston Metropolitan Area for disambiguation, and will mean a load of nicknames inside the article text, because Houston Metropolitan Area is much more reader-friendly than H-SL-BMA. I propose H-SL-BMA be made a redirect to HMA. &middot; Katefan0(scribble) 19:09, July 13, 2005 (UTC)

Sugar Land Regional Airport?
We mention Intercontinental and Hobby, and then go on to mention Sugar Land's airport, which the article says is the 4th largest in the metro area. 1, 2, and ... 4? What's 3? &middot; Katefan0(scribble) 13:53, July 21, 2005 (UTC)


 * Third would be Ellington Field. UH Collegian 16:53, 21 July 2005 (UTC)
 * All right, well, the article should mention that. 1, 2, 4 looks a little weird. &middot; Katefan0(scribble) 14:04, July 22, 2005 (UTC)
 * I added Ellington. I also removed some excess detail about Sugar Land's airport; it can go in an article about the airport itself or in the Sugar Land article, but it's too much here.  No other airport has that level of detail in the article currently, nor should it. &middot; Katefan0(scribble) 14:08, July 22, 2005 (UTC)

"Most Diverse"
I am unclear what the "most diverse" metropolitan area even means. Is it racial diversity, cultural diversity, or some other kind? Would someone kindly elaborate on this claim, define it, or provide a source? I don't know how long ago this claim was added to the article and I'm eager to hear the explanation. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 146.23.68.25 (talk • contribs).

Metro area situated in East Texas?
Maybe 20% of it by area. The metro area is quite large and sits on more than one geographical borderline.

Living here all my life except for university days, "East Texas" is referred to as that place 60-70 miles north with the lush pine trees, violent thunderstorms, and definite rural "southernness." It starts in Conroe, Montgomery County. The vast majority of this area are filled with oak trees and swamp weeds. Most pine trees here are not native and not as healthy looking as the East Texas piney woods.

The northern suburbs are much like true East Texas while the city of Houston and the south/west and southeast suburbs are much like true "South Texas" in geography and Hispanic population. And even more, the far northwest suburbs are much like the rolling plains of central Texas plains. More references:


 * US district courts have most metro area counties in the South Texas district, also headquartered in Houston.


 * South Texas College of Law, Houston, TX

Also the term "South Texas" is constantly used in news/weather casts and commercials describing the area... East Texas is still to the north. The "East Texas" courts and college with that name in it, are also to the north. 90% of the time, we refer to this region as "Southeast Texas," as do NOAA emergency weathercasts. No matter what the Cajuns in Beaumont/Port Arthur say.

Just had to throw that out there. I'm not editing anything, but accuracy could be better. South Texas and East Texas are not the most accurate descriptions. Southeast Texas is even more accurate... but we can debate about these all day.

No argument that most of this area is in the "Gulf Coast" region, some in the Piney Woods, and some in Prairies and Lakes. The other regions of the state are South Texas Plains, Big Bend Country, and the Panhandle Plains

Are these regions factual or do they not exist anymore??? Do we strive for factual, encyclopedic accuracy or is everything on Wikipedia written to be debated about? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 208.2.29.5 (talk) 18:39, 4 April 2007 (UTC).


 * Please see the East Texas article for some insight. Postoak 20:27, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

Square mileage
I look at the info box and notice that there is something wrong those numbers. It says that the Greater Houston area has a square mileage 10,000+. Then I went over to the Los Angeles Metropolitan Area article and noticed that it said they have metro square mileage of only 4,000+ when, by looking at the maps, their metro area is clearly larger than Houstons. Does someone know how this might have happened?--68.201.118.165 04:57, 5 April 2007 (UTC)