Biohazard Cleanup Near Westgate Village Spring, TX

Spring is an unincorporated census-designated place in Harris County, not an incorporated city, even though it sits inside Houston's extraterritorial jurisdiction about 20 miles north of downtown Houston.

The Spring area was originally inhabited by the Orcoquiza Native Americans, and William Pierpont set up a trading post on Spring Creek in 1838, when the settlement counted just 153 residents by 1840.

German immigrants such as Gus Bayer and Carl Wunsche moved to Spring in the mid-1840s and built the farming community that gave the town its early character.

The International and Great Northern Railroad arrived in 1871 and turned Spring into a railroad switchyard with a roundhouse and some 200 rail workers, pushing the population to about 1,200 by 1910.

When the roundhouse was relocated to Houston in 1923, Spring went into a long decline and shrank to only about 300 people by 1931.

Old Town Spring, the historic rail-era core at Spring-Cypress and Hardy roads, is now a shopping district of more than 150 shops, boutiques, and restaurants in preserved historic buildings, and it hosts the Texas Crawfish & Music Festival.

Wunsche Brothers Cafe & Saloon in Old Town Spring has been operating since 1902 and is a designated Texas historical landmark.

The 2020 census counted 62,559 people in the Spring CDP, up from 54,298 in 2010, and Census figures put Spring at about 22,336 households with roughly 74% of homes owner-occupied.

Meyer Park, a 180-acre Harris County park in Spring, packs in 26 soccer fields, softball diamonds, trails, and a three-acre fishing lake along Cypress Creek.

The Spring Creek Greenway gives Spring residents a long trail corridor for hiking, biking, and paddling along the creek that gave the community its name.