Editing Spring Valley Village, Texas (section)

==History==
In 1936 state highway maps indicated a cemetery and a church. Initially the settlement consisted of one and one-half square miles.<ref name="SpringVHandbook">{{Handbook of Texas|id=hgs14|name=Spring Valley, Texas}}</ref>

In the mid-1950s, efforts to form a Spring Branch municipality (proposed to be called the city of Spring Branch in roughly the area known today as the Memorial Villages) failed.<ref name="SpringBranchHandb">{{Handbook of Texas|id=hrsrj|name=Spring Branch, Texas}}</ref> The city incorporated in 1955 as Spring Valley.<ref name="SpringVHandbook"/> There had been two elections for incorporation. The first result was against incorporation, and state law mandated that the next election for incorporation of the same boundary would have to be held at least one year later. Some advocates of incorporation convinced [[Robert R. Casey]], then a Harris county judge, to modify the boundary of the proposed area by removing the Campbell Place area and therefore many voters who opposed incorporating. The following election, held on April 9, 1955, was in favor of incorporation, 183 for and 165 against.<ref>Meeks, Flori. "Community - Fight failed to make Spring Branch a city - Proposal to incorporate followed by establishment of Memorial Villages." ''[[Houston Chronicle]]''. Thursday, September 20, 2012. ThisWeek p. 1. Available on [[Newsbank]], Record Number 14919922. Available at the [[Houston Public Library]] with a library card. "And so the boundary lines were changed by eliminating Campbell Place, which lies north of Briar Branch Creek, east of Adkins Road, and west of Campbell Road. This eliminated a good many voters who were against incorporation."</ref>  Because of the 1955 incorporation, Houston did not incorporate Spring Valley's territory into its city limits, while Houston annexed surrounding areas that were [[unincorporated area|unincorporated]].<!--Print version exclusively has the information cited; the information is ''not'' included in the online edition--><ref name="Annexbitter">Lee, Renée C. "[http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/4243441.html Annexed Kingwood split on effects]." ''[[Houston Chronicle]]''. Sunday October 8, 2006. A21. Retrieved on July 6, 2011. "Some of the area communities that incorporated as cities and escaped annexation by Houston:" Print version exclusively has the information cited; the information is ''not'' included in the online edition.</ref> In 1960 the city had 3,004 residents and two businesses. The city had 3,800 residents in 1976 and 3,392 residents in 1990.<ref name="SpringVHandbook"/>

In 2007, the name of the city was officially changed from Spring Valley to Spring Valley Village.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.chron.com/CDA/archives/archive.mpl?id=2007_4431243|title=Spring Valley changes its name|accessdate=2008-01-27|publisher=[[Houston Chronicle]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110521212310/http://www.chron.com/CDA/archives/archive.mpl?id=2007_4431243|archive-date=2011-05-21|url-status=dead}}</ref> 
Regardless of the name change, all [[ZIP code#Zones|postal addresses]] in Spring Valley Village are Houston-based.<ref>http://zip4.usps.com/zip4/citytown_zip.jsp<!--Use "77024" to find that Spring Valley Village is unacceptable--></ref>