Huntsville Unit
Texas State Penitentiary at Huntsville or Huntsville Unit, nicknamed "Walls Unit", is a Texas state prison located in Huntsville, Texas, United States.Photo: Nick DiFonzo, CC BY 2.0.
- Type: Prison
- Description: Texas state prison
- Also known as: “Huntsville prison”, “Huntsville Unit in Texas”, “HV”, “TDCJ Huntsville”, and “Texas State Penitentiary at Huntsville”
- Address: 815 12th Street, Huntsville, TX 77342
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Sam Houston Memorial Museum and Bowers Stadium.
Sam Houston Memorial Museum
Museum
Bowers Stadium
Stadium
Bernard Johnson Coliseum
Sports venue
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Huntsville.
Huntsville
Photo: Foeniz, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Huntsville is a small city of about 45,000 residents, located in Walker County, part of the Piney Woods region of Texas. Huntsville is famous as the home of Texas hero, General Sam Houston with an enormous statue of Sam Houston next to Interstate 45, it's famous as a prison town, and is also home to Sam Houston State University.
Huntsville Unit
- Categories: state prison and government building
- Location: Walker, Texas, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
30.72166° or 30° 43′ 18″ northLongitude
-95.54659° or 95° 32′ 48″ westOpen location code
8626PFC3+M9OpenStreetMap ID
way 265926914OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=prisonWikidata ID
Q686494
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Azerbaijani to Turkish—“Huntsville Unit” goes by many names.
- Azerbaijani: “Hantsvill-yunit”
- Catalan: “Huntsville Unit (Texas)”
- Catalan: “Huntsville Unit en Texas”
- Catalan: “Huntsville Unit”
- Chinese: “亨茨維爾監獄”
- Dutch: “Huntsville Unit”
- Egyptian Arabic: “وحدة هنتسفيل فى ولاية تكساس”
- Finnish: “Huntsville Unit”
- French: “Huntsville Unit”
- German: “Huntsville Unit”
- German: “Staatsgefängnis von Huntsville”
- Indonesian: “Huntsville Unit”
- Italian: “carcere di Huntsville”
- Italian: “Carcere di Huntsville”
- Japanese: “ハンツヴィルユニット”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Huntsville Unit”
- Norwegian: “Huntsville Unit”
- Russian: “Хантсвилл-юнит”
- Spanish: “Penitenciaría Estatal de Texas en Huntsville”
- Spanish: “Unidad de Huntsville”
- Swedish: “Huntsvillefängelset”
- Turkish: “Teksas Huntsville Ceza İnfaz Kurumu”
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Texas Prison Rodeo Stadium and Rather Park.
Nearby Places
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