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Sam Houston National Forest, Texas
The Sam Houston National Forest, one of four National Forests in Texas, is located 50 miles north of Houston. The forest is administered together with the other three United States National Forests and two National Grasslands located entirely in Texas, from common offices in Lufkin, Texas. The units include Angelina, Davy Crockett, Sabine, and Sam Houston National Forests, plus Caddo National Grassland and Lyndon B. Johnson National Grassland.
There are local ranger district offices located in New Waverly. It is located in portions of three Texas counties including Montgomery, San Jacinto, and Walker.
Sam Houston NF Information:
Forest Specification:
Date Established:
13 October 1936
Forest Area Coverage:
Total Area:
163,037 acres, ( sq mi or 660 sq km)
Texas Area:
163,037 acres, ( sq mi or 660 sq km)
Texas Area:
Montgomery, Walker and San Jacinto Counties
Forest Elevations:
Elevations within the Sam Houston National Forest areas are an average of 285 feet.
The elevation rises to the high point of 322 feet at Blue Bonnet Hill.
Forest Type:
Sam Houston National Forest
Location:
50 miles north of Houston,
between Huntsville, Conroe, Cleveland, and Richards, Texas.
Headquarters Location:
2221 N Raguet Street, Lufkin, Texas 75904
Open: Mon, Wed, Fri from 8am-12pm and 1-4:39 pm
Headquarters Phone
936.639.8501
Coordinates:
30.5480802, -95.1304736
Elevation:
285 feet
Geographical Region:
Coastal Plains
(m2cont-nam-00-texas) Sam Houston National Forest
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The Ancients
First Migration
(The Algonquian Cultures)
The three counties that contain the Sam Houston National Forest: Montgomery, San Jacinto, and Walker, have yielded evidence of human occupation dating back several thousand years. Evidence of occupations from three to four thousand years ago continuing until the early 1900s has been documented at a number of archaeological sites within the Sam Houston National Forest.
These people are descendants of
Diklah, who himself originated in Mesopotamia and who himself had thirteen sons. One of these sons of Diklah was named Atacapa, and this son himself had four sons which he named: Akokisa, Bidai, Deadose, and Patiri.
Diklah and his sons were part of a larger group who were the first to migrate northeastward across the Asia continent, after which, then walked over the Beringia land bridge in search of a place to call their homeland. Upon arriving on the east side of Beringia, they unknowingly walked onto a new continent, that continent which today is known as North America.
Atacapa and his family, in their journey, eventually arrive upon the land that is currently along the Gulf Coast of Texas and Louisiana and this is the land that they came to call their homeland. These people were at first hunters and gatherers but some from Atacapa′s sons came to be more involved in agriculture.
Later, disease and oppression from European settlers led to their eventual extinction some time in the early 1900s.
Caddoan
The son of Diklah, whose name was Caddo, together with those of his family, all those who spoke the Caddoan language settled in the area which now include the areas of northeast Texas, northwest Louisiana, southeast Oklahoma and southwest Arkansas. These indigenous people chose the Coastal Plains as their homeland, and this was the western edge of the great mound building culture known as the Mississippian Culture.
The Caddoan mounds were built approximately between 800 CE and 1450 CE, with most of the major construction occurring between 1100 and 1300 CE.
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