Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 10405
Land area (2000): 21.022277 sq. miles (54.447444 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 21.022277 sq. miles (54.447444 sq. km)
FIPS code: 27648
Located within: Texas (TX), FIPS 48
Location: 29.512532 N, 95.197933 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 77546
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Friendswood
Wikipedia
Friendswood is a 2014 novel by René Steinke. It is about an incident of dumping toxic waste in Friendswood, Texas. Riverhead Books is the publisher. The waste site featured in the book never was located in Friendswood and has never been under the jurisdiction of Friendswood.
The novel's plot involves a superfund site that is based on the real Brio Superfund site in the South Belt area, located in an unincorporated area in Harris County. The author, who lived in Brooklyn in 2014, originated from and was raised in Friendswood. The author stated that she "wanted to write about the particular textures of Friendswood itself—the Quaker church in the center of town, the humidity and heat, the local Mexican restaurant, the country music I heard so often in the background." She added that "The Friendswood in the novel is fictional. I was more interested in creating the essence of the place than its actual, factual geography."
In 2014 Elizabeth Fowler, Susan Duff, and Dannielle Thomas obtained the rights to make a film version of Friendswood.
Usage examples of "friendswood".
We'd reached Houston's greedy, spreading fingers—not the city proper, but Friendswood, one of the many small towns that lay in its path.