Moving to Houston: The Woodlands or Spring?

[RMESMH]

Originally Posted by Dopo

That s... is so confusing,
There's places all the way up in The Woodlands that have Spring, TX address

Panther Creek Post office on Woodlands Parkway and Gosling has this address
10800 Gosling Rd, Spring, TX 7738

Same goes for Galatas Elementary School
9001 Cochrans Crossing Dr, Spring, TX

And The Woodlands Country Club Palmer Course
100 Grand Fairway, Spring, TX

This reinforces one of the points of my longer post up thread.

'The Woodlands', from what a former Postmaster at the Klein Post Office in Spring (7717 Louetta Rd - between Klein HS and the intersection with Champion Forest) told me 'The Woodlands' is not a USPS designation, that all of the Montgomery County parts of The Woodlands (within township map boundaries) have (for USPS purposes) mostly Spring, and then some Conroe and some Magnolia addresses....and for the Creekside Park (Harris County) part of The Woodlands, the USPS address designations are mostly Spring, and some Tomball. IME, after the Postmaster gave me this information, it has always panned out.

It is also my understanding that as long as the zip code, street, and address number are correct, that using 'The Woodlands' as the 'USPS city designation' rather than the correct Spring, Conroe, Tomball, etc. designation for locations WITHIN The Woodlands will work....USPS will still deliver that mail properly.

[RMESMH]

Originally Posted by Vicman

Do any of these areas in Aldine and Humble ISDs have "Spring, Texas" postal addresses?

My exact first thought as well when I read the post you are replying to. My understanding is no. IME, east of I-45, south of Cypress Creek, and north of FM 1960 are all Houston and then Humble postal addresses, not Spring. My understanding is the dividing line is Cypress Creek. For instance the postal address of the CVS at Aldine Westfield and Hirschfeld (just north of Cypress Creek, a stones throw from the HEB) has a Spring postal address, and the Mercer Arboretum and Botanical Gardens on the southern 'bank' of Cypress Creek has a Humble postal address. On the west side of I-45, the same...Spring addresses north of Cypress Creek, with Houston addresses south of Cypress Creek..at least until the point where Cypress Creek goes north of Cypresswood Dr. After that point, Cypresswood Drive is the dividing line. South of FM 1960...Houston postal addresses....IIRC, all the way from IAH to Willowbrook Mall (at least).

Baldwin Boettcher Branch Library AFAIK is in Aldine ISD and is thought of as in the Spring area but I think it has an "Humble, Texas" address (it is in Mercer Park in an unincorporated area, as in it's not actually in the City of Humble).

Yep. See above.

Speaking of things, the U.S. government defined a "Spring, Texas" census-designated place but only Spring ISD areas are in the CDP. Anything in Klein and Conroe ISDs are outside this CDP.

Yep. That is why I mentioned 'Old Town Spring' at the beginning of my first post.

Spring ISD has been having demographic pains with low income residents increasingly moving into apartments, and I heard Spring High School and its feeder middle schools are being affected by that now.

My understanding as well.

[RMESMH]

Originally Posted by Vicman

CDPs are used for gathering statistics on the population, etc.

This page lists the four map files from the Census Bureau: Index of /geo/maps/dc10map/GUBlock/st48_tx/place/p4869596_spring

• http://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/dc10...869596_000.pdf (overall map)
• http://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/dc10...869596_001.pdf (detail map of the NW corner)
• http://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/dc10...869596_002.pdf (detail map of the center of Spring (Old Town Spring)
• http://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/dc10...869596_003.pdf (detail map of East Spring)

All the guys living in Klein ISD and Conroe ISD are not included in the official federal statistics of the population of Spring, Texas.

Interesting.

When I think of most of the Klein ISD area (which is of course outside the CDP) and the Spring ISD area west of I-45, I think of the original dinky (population wise) largely farming communities (Louetta, Klein, Kohrville, Westfield, Bammel, etc) and I wonder if at some point the powers that be at USPS felt it would be unnecessarily cumbersome to have separate postal 'city' designations for all of them, so they just decided to assign large different swaths Spring, Houston, and Tomball postal addresses and then 'call it a day', so to speak.

[Dopo]

West Side of Spring seems to be a "no man's land"

[Texas Built]

I used to live in the very back of The Woodlands which is pretty much Magnolia and I had a "Spring" address.

[Vicman]

Originally Posted by RMESMH

When I think of most of the Klein ISD area (which is of course outside the CDP) and the Spring ISD area west of I-45, I think of the original dinky (population wise) largely farming communities (Louetta, Klein, Kohrville, Westfield, Bammel, etc) and I wonder if at some point the powers that be at USPS felt it would be unnecessarily cumbersome to have separate postal 'city' designations for all of them, so they just decided to assign large different swaths Spring, Houston, and Tomball postal addresses and then 'call it a day', so to speak.

I think that's what happened. USPS postal designations often don't reflect the actual cities.

[RMESMH]

Originally Posted by Texas Built

I used to live in the very back of The Woodlands which is pretty much Magnolia and I had a "Spring" address.

Very interesting. I thought a small part of the NW corner of The Woodlands (in other words some part that is the closer 'stone's throw wise' to the corner of FM 1488 and FM 2978 than other parts of The Woodlands) had Magnolia postal addresses. Perhaps not. I'm assuming you lived north of Woodlands Parkway?

P.S. I don't know anyone who lives in that area ^^^^^, so I don't have any personal experience re the postal addresses.

[Dopo]

Originally Posted by RMESMH

Very interesting. I thought a small part of the NW corner of The Woodlands (in other words some part that is the closer 'stone's throw wise' to the corner of FM 1488 and FM 2978 than other parts of The Woodlands) had Magnolia postal addresses. Perhaps not. I'm assuming you lived north of Woodlands Parkway?

P.S. I don't know anyone who lives in that area ^^^^^, so I don't have any personal experience re the postal addresses.

I'll give you another one,
technically, there's no Walmarts in The Woodlands
they are in Magnolia, Spring and Conroe