Westfield, Texas

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Westfield is an unincorporated community in Harris County, Texas, United States located along Interstate 45 and the Missouri Pacific Railroad nineteen miles (30 km) north of Downtown Houston.In 1846 Herman Tautenhahn, a German immigrant, built a general store near Cypress Station.

By 1876 Westfield was established; the community was named after Gate F.

West, a man who owned a field along the International-Great Northern Railroad.

In 1873 a post office opened. Tautenhahn moved his store closer to the rail line. Westfield's economy consisted of loading goods such as cattle, cotton, hides, and lumber from local warehouses and cattle pens onto freight cars.

The community shipped a tonnage of goods equalling that shipped by nearby Spring.