Edgewood Park

Edgewood Park is a park in Harris County, Texas which is located on Bellfort Street. Edgewood Park is situated nearby to the neighborhood Crestmont, as well as near Bayou Estates.

Type: Park
Description: park in Houston, Texas, United States of America
Address: 5803 Bellfort Street, Houston, TX 77033

Places of Interest

Highlights include Sims Bayou and Palm Center Transit Center.

Sims Bayou

Park

Sims Bayou is a 23-mile bayou that flows within Houston in a primarily west to east movement. Its origin is in Southwest Houston near Missouri City, Texas, and terminates in Manchester, Houston approximately seven miles east of Downtown Houston, where it feeds Buffalo Bayou as a major tributary.

Palm Center Transit Center

Railway station

Palm Center Transit Center is a light rail station in Houston, Texas on the METRORail system. It is the terminus of the Purple Line and is located on Griggs Road near Beekman Road in the Palm Center neighborhood. Palm Center Transit Center is situated 2 miles north of Edgewood Park.

W.L.D. Johnson Neighborhood Library

Library

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The W. L. D. Johnson Neighborhood Library is a Houston Public Library branch in Houston, Texas. It replaced the Carnegie Colored Library, a Carnegie Library established by Houston's African American community in the Fourth Ward that was demolished for Interstate Highway 45 construction in 1962. W.L.D. Johnson Neighborhood Library is situated 2½ miles west of Edgewood Park.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Central City and South Inner Loop.

Central City

Neighborhood

Central City is a neighborhood in Houston, Texas, United States. In 2009, residents of Central City supported a bill by Garnet Coleman that would limit the ability of Texas Medical Center, Inc. to exercise its eminent domain rights on residential property. Central City is situated 4 miles northwest of Edgewood Park.

South Inner Loop

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South and west of downtown, South Inner Loop is home to the Museum District, Hermann Park, the main campus of the University of Houston, Rice University, the Texas Medical Center, and NRG Stadium.

Texas Medical Center

Suburb

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The Texas Medical Center is a neighborhood in south-central Houston, Texas, United States. It is immediately south of the Museum District and west of Texas State Highway 288. Texas Medical Center is situated 4½ miles northwest of Edgewood Park.

Edgewood Park

Category: recreation area
Location: Harris County, Texas, United States, North America
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Latitude

29.66752° or 29° 40′ 3″ north

Longitude

-95.33159° or 95° 19′ 54″ west

Elevation

36 feet (11 metres)

Inception

1953

Operator

Houston Parks and Recreation Department

Open location code

76X6MM99+29

OpenStreetMap ID

way 339952037

OpenStreetMap feature

leisure=park

GeoNames ID

4688266

Wikidata ID

Q49485795

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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

“Edgewood Park” goes by many names.

Cebuano: “Edgewood Park (parke sa Estados Unidos, Texas, Harris County)”
Cebuano: “Edgewood Park”

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Localities in the Area

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Edgewood Community Center and South Park Baptist Church.

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