Forgotten Neigborhood???? (Houston, Earth, Rankin: houses, neighborhood, subdivision)

[HtownLove]

Does anyone know anything about a neighborhood called Glen Forest Estates.
It used to be along I45 north of Greens Road and Greens Bayou. It used to be right before Earthman Cemetary before Ranking Road
Does anyone know what happened to it?

I was walking the other day and stumbled upon it. It is just completely deserted. Only streets are left.

It is kind of spooky to see a neighborhood with no houses, not a trace of humanity other than roads and bridges to nowhere. There are cul de sacs to nothing.



You can barely see where lots were.
No utility poles or wires. Nothing at all but neighborhood roads.

There are no street signs. the only reason I know what the hood was called is because it still shows up on maps.

Anyone who used to live near Greenspoint remember this area???

It seems to have been settled in the 1950's long before the Greenspoint economic boom and bust of the 80's.

I dunno, it sure spooked me that there is no life in that area. I would think after a year or two the area would be reclaimed by squirrels, coons, deer, etc, but I walked the entire hood and saw or heard nothing.

You can still see what used to be lawns resisting recolonization by native plants. man we really do screw up areas big time.

[kreeyax]

Checked it out on Google maps street view, that is spooky looking. Did there used to be houses there and they were torn down? Or were there never any built? Maybe it was in a flood zone, with that creek being so close.

[HtownLove]

Originally Posted by kreeyax

Checked it out on Google maps street view, that is spooky looking. Did there used to be houses there and they were torn down? Or were there never any built? Maybe it was in a flood zone, with that creek being so close.

I did the street view too, trust me it looks worse in person.

the street view was when the area was not so overgrown. trees are starting to grow across the streets so it gives it that little red riding hood/ grandma's house in the woods feel

[DJboutit]

Google street view it is just a forest weird does anybody know what happened to the neighborhood itself??

[vegankris]

Superfund site???

[HtownLove]

Originally Posted by vegankris

Superfund site???

more like FEMA than superfund.

Most probably it got flooded, but I dunno how long ago.

Originally Posted by DJboutit

Google street view it is just a forest weird does anybody know what happened to the neighborhood itself??

The streets are perfect. There are no pot holes or cracks or humps or anything like that. Just bleached asphalt with tire skid marks (looks like kids raced their motor bikes there after the subdivision was abandoned).

but there is nothing that would hint at where the houses were exactly. No utility wires, no lot number markings, no drains. Tons of trees where houses used to be.

The only give aways are the lawns that are still resisting going back to forest land, and the non native plants.

Seriously tho, I bet if they raised the banks of the bayou about 5 feet the neighborhood could be saved. I mean it was there from the 50's so it was there for some time. Does anyone know why Houston doesn't use levees and stuff like other water plentiful cities???

[DJboutit]

Glen Forest Estates - HAIF

From that thread looks like they tore down the last house in 2006 and Harris county had planed to build a giant detention pond this thread was from 2007 & nothing has ever been built I really do not know what the deal really is

[blkgiraffe]

Here's a shot from Google Earth [2002]

[DJboutit]

^^^ Most of the houses in that google earth pic look small like 900sqft to 1300sqft

[HtownLove]

Originally Posted by blkgiraffe

Here's a shot from Google Earth [2002]

cool. so what happened between 2002 and 2006?

did Rita give that much rain? I was up in your town for Rita