SUNSET HEIGHTS, TX
SUNSET HEIGHTS, TEXAS. Sunset Heights, a residential suburb and retail center within the Houston metroplex, is east of U.S. Highway 75 and north of Houston Heights in central Harris County. The townsite was the terminus of a trolley line and was named for its location on the high land west of Houston proper. A post office operated from 1915 to 1951. After that the town was no longer shown on the county highway map.
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The following, adapted from the Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition, is the preferred citation for this article.
Claudia Hazlewood, "SUNSET HEIGHTS, TX," Handbook of Texas Online (http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/hvsdd), accessed May 19, 2013. Published by the Texas State Historical Association.
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