- Barker, Texas
Barker is an unincorporated community in western Harris County,
Texas ,United States . It lies along local roads just offInterstate 10 , west of the city of Houston, thecounty seat of Harris County. [Rand McNally. "The Road Atlas '08."Chicago :Rand McNally , 2008, p. 96.] Its elevation is 102 feet (31 m), and it is located at coor dms|29|47|4|N|95|41|6|W|city (29.7843955, -95.6849469). [gnis|1330040] Although Barker is unincorporated, it has apost office , with theZIP code of 77413. [ [http://www.zipinfo.com/cgi-local/zipsrch.exe?cnty=cnty&zip=77413 Zip Code Lookup] ]Barker was originally built along the
Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad , which built through the area in 1895; the community was named for Ed Barker, a railroad contractor. The community's first postmaster was appointed in 1898. Although Barker was originally an agricultural community, the area is now primarily residential. [ [http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/BB/hlb8.html Barker, Texas] , Handbook of Texas Online,2008-01-09 . Accessed2008-08-10 .]References
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* [http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/BB/hlb8.html Profile from the Handbook of Texas Online]
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