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SOUTHSIDE
PLACE , TEXAS
Harris County,
Texas
Gulf Coast
Inside the 610 Loop of Houston
4 miles from Downtown Houston
Population: 1,546 (2000)
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History
in a Pecan Shell
Bounded on the S by Holcombe Boulvevard and surrounded on the N, W
and E by West University Place, Southside Place is an independent
municipality incorporated in 1934.
A post office opened sometime prior to 1940 and the population for
that year’s census was about 1,400. The largely residential community
declined in the late 1970s to a low of 1,263.
Southside Place has a few businesses, its own fire and police department
and as recently as 2001, it maintained its own water system. The town
has since removed the water tower shown above.
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