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Stafford MSD the Mississippian culture also known as Mound Builders which extended along the Mississippi River Valley east of Texas; and, Tropical Storm Allison devastated many neighborhoods as well as interrupted all services within the Texas medical center for several months with flooding in June 2001 at least 17 people were killed around the Houston area when the rainfall from Allison that fell on June 8 and 9 caused the city's bayous to rise over their banks, 7 Further reading Conquistadors had overwhelming military advantages over the native peoples They belonged to a more militarily advanced civilization with better techniques tools firearms artillery iron steel and domesticated animals Horses and mules carried them pigs fed them and dogs fought for them the indigenous peoples had the advantage of established settlements determination to remain independent and large numerical superiority European diseases and divide and conquer tactics contributed to the defeat of the native populations. Geology In 2011 according to the nonprofit Children at Risk one-third of students at public high schools in Harris County do not graduate (137) 5.52 The University of Texas at Arlington; .

La Salle's colonization expedition left France on July 24 1684 and soon lost one of its supply ships to Spanish privateers a combination of inaccurate maps La Salle's previous miscalculation of the latitude of the mouth of the Mississippi River and overcorrecting for the Gulf currents led the ships to be unable to find the Mississippi. Instead they landed at Matagorda Bay in early 1685 400 miles (644 km) west of the Mississippi in February the colonists constructed Fort Saint Louis, Portuguese sent military expeditions to the Amazon Rainforest and conquered British and Dutch strongholds founding villages and forts from 1669 in 1680 they reached the far south and founded Sacramento on the bank of the Rio de la Plata in the Eastern Strip region (present-day Uruguay). . Greater Houston's arterial road network is established at the municipal level with the City of Houston exercising planning control over both its incorporated area and extraterritorial jurisdiction (ETJ) Therefore Houston exercises transportation planning authority over a 2,000-square-mile (5,200 km2) area over five counties many times larger than its corporate area the Major Thoroughfare and Freeway Plan updated annually establishes the city's street hierarchy identifies roadways in need of widening and proposes new roadways in unserved areas Arterial roads are organized into four categories in decreasing order of intensity: major thoroughfares transit corridor streets collector streets and local streets. Roadway classification affects anticipated traffic volumes roadway design and right of way breadth Ultimately the system is designed to ferry traffic from neighborhood streets to major thoroughfares which connect into the limited-access highway system. Notable arterial roads in the region include Westheimer Road Memorial Drive Texas State Highway 6 Farm to Market Road 1960 Bellaire Boulevard and Telephone Road. Census-designated places General Douglas MacArthur returns to the Philippines during the Battle of Leyte 20 October 1944 (17.4) 53.5 1800s The Houston Airport System a branch of the municipal government oversees the operation of three major public airports in the city Two of these airports George Bush Intercontinental Airport and William P Hobby Airport offer commercial aviation service to a variety of domestic and international destinations and served 55 million passengers in 2016 the third Ellington Airport is home to the Ellington Field Joint Reserve Base the Federal Aviation Administration and the state of Texas selected the Houston Airport System as "Airport of the Year" in 2005 largely due to the implementation of a $3.1 billion airport improvement program for both major airports in Houston. Obesity has quickly become a major health issue in Texas in 2017 33.6% of Texas adults were obese as compared to 29.9% of U.S adults in 2000 21.7% of adults were obese and in 1990 only 10.7% of adults were obese in 2016 33% of 10-17 year olds in Texas were obese. When separated out by gender 34.6% of Texas females and 32.8% of Texas males were obese. When separated out by race 31% of White adults 41.7% of Black adults and 37.8% of Hispanic adults were obese in Texas in 2016. Research shows that an increase in household income is correlated with a decrease in obesity rates in 2014 Comptroller Susan Combs found that there are educational achievement patterns as well - 39% of the Texas population with less than a high school education was obese while only 23% of college graduates were obese. Living in a rural area in Texas is also correlated with higher obesity rates. 16.2 Geography and environment The Harris County Sheriff's Office operates jail facilities and is the primary provider of law enforcement services to the unincorporated areas of the county the sheriff is the conservator of the peace in the county the Harris County jail facilities are in northern downtown on the north side of the Buffalo Bayou the 1200 Jail the 1307 Jail (originally a TDCJ facility leased by the county) and the 701 Jail (formed from existing warehouse storage space) are on the same site.