Stella, in Harris County, Texas was formerly an
unincorporated area
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located approximately 10 miles southwest of
downtown Houston
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. It existed there during the late 1800s through the 1920s and then
it disappeared from area maps. During the 1950s the area was annexed into the
City of Houston
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Over the years various railroad lines went through, crossed, and connected with the area. A
railroad timetable from the era shows Stella as a stop with access to connecting trains. The identifier "Stella" is affixed to the
signal bungalow located next to the tracks along Holmes Road about 1/4 mile west of Kirby Drive.
The modern day Stella Link Road in Houston gets its name from Stella, Texas.
[Jeannie Kever, http://www.chron.com/neighborhood/katy-news/article/Quirky-street-names-offer-look-into-Houston-s-1784203.php ]Houston Chronicle
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''. January 25, 2008. It began as a rural road running parallel to the railroad that linked
Bellaire, Texas
Bellaire is a city in southwest Harris County, Texas, United States, within the metropolitan area.. Retrieved on January 24, 2010. As of the 2020 U.S. census, the city population was 17,202. It is surrounded by the cities of Houston and West ...
to Stella. Today Stella Link Road is a busy urban street that still makes that link to the locale formerly known as Stella.
References
External links
1895 Rand McNally Atlas map of Harris Countypre-1911 Harris County MapHarris County Archives1922 Harris County Soils MapHarris County Archives
Geography of Harris County, Texas
Former populated places in Texas
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