The Forest, Texas

Forestwood
(Harris County)

Forney
(Kaufman County)

Summary

Community
Profile

Open an interactive map for The Forest and the surrounding area.

The Forest is located in Galveston County.

The Forest is near sea level ^<1>.

Time Zone: The Forest lies in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time.

Communities that are also named The Forest can be found in:

	Alabama	North Carolina
	California (historic ^<2>)	Ohio
	Delaware	Ontario
	Idaho	Pennsylvania
	Indiana	South Carolina
	Louisiana	Virginia
	Maine	Washington
	Mississippi	West Virginia
	New York	Wisconsin

While we we don't have population counts for The Forest, we do have some information about the surrounding area on the Census Page for The Forest).

The following is a sample of nearby communities:

Community	Direction	Distance ^<3>	2008 ^<4> Population	Change Since 2000
Alvin	S	12 mi [19.31 km]	22,853	6.72% increase
Baytown	NE	19 mi [30.58 km]	70,330	5.87% increase
Deer Park	NE	10 mi [16.09 km]	30,890	8.31% increase
Dickinson	SE	10 mi [16.09 km]	17,886	4.64% increase
Houston	NW	19 mi [30.58 km]	2,242,193	14.77% increase
La Porte	NE	12 mi [19.31 km]	34,274	7.51% increase

To learn more about neighboring communities and counties, please visit the Neighborhood Page for The Forest.

The Commemorative
Quarter for
Texas ^<5>

Search for Local Businesses

Google's 'Search-by-Location' is a very useful tool for people who might be planning visits to this area. We have prepared the following searches to help you find businesses, travel and vacation activities that are in (or close to) The Forest. It's likely that the search results won't include all of the businesses that are in this area, but the results should give you a good foundation for further searches.

For what it's worth: In addition to helping you submit your own search, clicking 'Other...' will frequently (but not always) show you some popular searches for this area.

If you find an error or your business wasn't included in the results, please contact Google to help them resolve the issue (we simply link to 'Search-by-Location' and have no control over their results).

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Off-the-Road Links

The following websites contain collections of photos taken around The Forest:

Flickr.com

Panoramio.com

Looking for more websites and/or information centered on The Forest? Please visit the Map Page for The Forest.

Footnotes

<1>	The elevation is an estimate for the area around The Forest - it wil be higher in some places and lower in others. - Return to Citation
<2>	We use the term 'historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable and we would like to be accurate. If you can provide us with more specific information about The Forest, please let us know so that we can make corrections. - Return to Citation
<3>	Our distances are calculated as a straight-line (or point-to-point) distance between The Forest and the indicated community. The distance should be treated as an estimate and not as the driving distance. - Return to Citation
<4>	Population counts have been provided by the U.S. Census Bureau. For more detail, please visit our Census Page for The Forest. - Return to Citation
<5>	All Quarter-dollar coin images from the United States Mint. - Return to Citation

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Last Modified: 05 Nov 2009