About Prairie View, Texas

Located in north central Waller County, Prairie View developed around agriculture and an academic institution rooted in the former Alta Vista plantation. The community incorporated in 1969, when residents elected W. D. Thompson as their first mayor. Its population reached 8,184 in the 2020 census.

  • School BeginningsTexas established an agricultural and mechanical training school at the former Alta Vista plantation in 1876, and it opened with eight students in March 1878.
  • New Mission in 1879State lawmakers created Prairie View Normal and Industrial Training School in April 1879 to broaden educational access for Black youth.
  • Early Post OfficeDuncan D. Robertson opened Prairie View's first post office in his home in 1892, where he also operated a general store.
  • College and AgricultureBy the late 1980s, Prairie View remained both a college community and an agricultural center, with local farmers producing corn, melons, and other commercial crops.

Find your street

Names on the Prairie View map

Every name below is printed on this map. Look for your street, your school, the park where you played, or the pond down the road.

Streets and roads84

  • Owens Road
  • Anne Preston Street
  • Opal Street
  • Redwood Drive
  • FM 1098 Road
  • Old Houston Highway
  • Richards Road
  • Wyatt Chapel Road
  • University Drive
  • Fluckinger Road
  • Cameron Road
  • State Loop 1098
  • Alleda Road
  • Fourth Street
  • East East O'Bannion Street
  • Alegacy Place
  • Cochran Road
  • Pine Island Road
  • Echols Street
  • Rosewood Drive
  • Chapel Lane
  • Greenfield Road
  • Ruby Street
  • Minn Road
  • Hillcroft
  • Hillcroft Road
  • Charleston Street
  • Pine Street
  • Clark Street
  • Blinka Road
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  • Emerald Street
  • Ezekial Smith Street
  • Rodeo Grounds
  • Elm Street
  • Sharon Street
  • Marie Antionette Drive
  • Azalea Street
  • Windmill Road
  • High Point Street
  • Bell Street
  • Hill Street
  • Smith Street
  • Pine Meadow
  • Springdale
  • West Amaryllis Street
  • Ellen Powell
  • Ripkin Street
  • Santee Street
  • Cindy Lane
  • Magnolia Street
  • Prairie Drive
  • Hollyhock Drive
  • Dooley Street
  • Primrose Street
  • Oleander Street
  • Bean Street
  • Pearl Street
  • Hawkins Street
  • Bledsoe Street
  • Lily Street
  • Pecan Street
  • East North Norris Street
  • Fernwood Street
  • Thompson Drive
  • Alonzo Street
  • Reda Bland Evans
  • Blossom Road
  • Coruthers Street
  • Reda Bland Evans Street
  • Begonia Street
  • Pine Avenue
  • Marigold Drive
  • Dahila Street
  • Lawson Street
  • Reed Boulevard
  • Colonial Drive
  • Oak Street
  • Chapman Lane
  • Baker Street
  • Thomas Street
  • Anne Preston
  • Phillps Street
  • University Street
  • Manuel Road

Names are listed as they appear on the printed map. Zoom into the product photos to find them.

The art of mapping a place

How This Map Was Made

Real places. Remarkable detail. Discover the layers that turn geographic data into a map of home.

  1. Aerial imagery of Mendon, Massachusetts, from the USDA NAIP program

    The view from above

    Aerial imagery reveals the character of the land: woodland, open fields, and the patterns of a place.

  2. USGS elevation data rendered as shaded relief of Mendon, Massachusetts

    The shape of the land

    Elevation data brings hills, valleys, and subtle changes in the landscape into view.

  3. Closeup of roads, waterways, and buildings on the Mendon, Massachusetts map

    The details of home

    Roads, waterways, and building footprints come together to make the map feel unmistakably local.

  4. Finished Mendon, Massachusetts map shown in a black frame

    Geography becomes art

    Considered color, shading, and typography bring the layers together in a map made for your wall.

Process illustrated with Mendon, Massachusetts. Aerial imagery: USDA NAIP. Terrain: USGS 3D Elevation Program. Map details and finished artwork: KNOWOL.

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