montgomery county real estate
Montgomery
County is located just North of the Harris County area. We are
the 32nd fastest growing county in the U.S. according to recent
Census Bureau estimates. We offer amenities such as fishing,
camping, golfing and cultural events, set against the backdrop of
the beautiful Piney Woods.
MONTGOMERY COUNTY.
Montgomery County is on Interstate 45 forty miles north of downtown
Houston in the East Texas Timberlands Region. The center of the
county is at 30°18' north latitude and 95°23' west longitude, near
the county seat of Conroe. The county is bounded on the north by
Walker and San Jacinto counties, on the east by Liberty County, on
the south by Harris County, and on the west by Waller and Grimes
counties. Montgomery County covers 1,047 square miles of flat to
gently rolling terrain, with elevations ranging from 150 to 300
feet. To the south and west soils are light-colored and loamy with
deep, reddish, clayey to loamy subsoils. The remainder of the county
has reddish soils with loamy surfaces and very deep, clayey subsoils.
Vegetation is typical of
the Piney Woods area, with thick stands of longleaf, shortleaf, and
loblolly pines and hickory, maple, sweet and black gum, oak, and
magnolia trees. Grasses include Virginia wildrye, blackseed
needlegrass, and purpletop. Wildlife in the county includes eastern
gray and fox squirrels, various species of bats and skunks, and
small herbivores such as gophers, mice, rabbits, and armadillos, as
well as raccoons, white-tailed deer, opossum, bobcat, coyote, and
red and grey fox. Alligators, frogs, toads, and numerous species of
snake, including the poisonous copperhead, cottonmouth, coral
snakes, and rattlesnake, are found in abundance. A wide variety of
birds-mockingbirds, cardinals, doves, quail, bluejays, and
roadrunners, to name a few-are also native to the area. Natural
resources include timber, lakes, gravel, and oil; the Conroe
oilfieldqv was once the third largest in the United
States. The county's principal water source is the San Jacinto River
basin drainage system, which includes Peach, Caney, Spring, and
Bushy creeks. The Lake Conroe Reservoir, seven miles northwest of
Conroe, drains an area of 445 square miles; its surface area covers
17,600 acres, and its storage capacity is 380,400 acre-feet. The
climate is subtropical humid, with warm summers and mild winters.
The average annual relative humidity is 73 percent, and the average
rainfall is 47.44 inches. The average annual temperature is 68° F.
Temperatures in January range from an average low of 39° to an
average high of 61° F and in July range from 72° to 95° F. The
growing season averages 270 days per year, with the last freeze in
early March and the first freeze in late November.
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