Bammel is an unincorporated community in Harris County, Texas, United States.

Bammel, eighteen miles north of downtown Houston at the intersection of Farm-to-Market Road 1960 (FM 1960) and Kuykendahl Road in north central Harris County, was established after the neighboring towns of Klein, Westfield, and Spring. It was named for Charles Bammel, a German Houstonian who built the Bammel and Kuehnle Merchandise store with his partner in 1915 and moved to the community for health reasons. A Bammel post office, for which Herman Kuehnle was the first postmaster, operated from 1916 until 1929. Bammel's store burned in 1927 but was later rebuilt to serve the new Bammel Forest subdivision. The town's population was reported as roughly fifty from 1929 until oil was discovered in the area in 1938. In 1943, the community reported two stores and a population of 200, but in 1949 its population was estimated at twenty. During the 1980s Bammel's residents were mainly commuters who worked in Houston. The community included two shopping centers, several schools, a hospital, and nearby cemeteries.

Spring Independent School District operates schools in the area.

In the 1900s, one school had 30 children taught by one teacher. The building was donated by a man named Mr. Harrell. A fire burned the building, and men from Spring helped rebuild the school. In 1900, a one-room school opened on the Bender Estate. One year later, it moved to Spring.^[1]

The Bammel Gas Storage facility is one of the largest underground reservoir storage facilities in North America and is strategically located on the HPL gas pipeline system. Its capabilities include 118 billion cubic feet (BCF) of storage. The Houston Ship Channel and Houston's gas distribution company are important markets for gas stored at the Bammel facility. The facility was purchased by American Electric Power from Enron in 2001.^[2]

• Bammel, Texas from the Handbook of Texas Online

v t e Municipalities and communities of Harris County, Texas, United States
County seat: Houston
Cities	Baytown‡ Bellaire Bunker Hill Village Deer Park El Lago Friendswood‡ Galena Park Hedwig Village Hilshire Village Houston‡ Humble Hunters Creek Village Jacinto City Jersey Village Katy‡ La Porte League City‡ Missouri City‡ Morgan's Point Nassau Bay Pasadena Pearland‡ Piney Point Village Seabrook‡± Shoreacres‡± South Houston Southside Place Spring Valley Village Stafford‡ Taylor Lake Village Tomball Waller‡ Webster West University Place
CDPs	Aldine Atascocita Barrett Channelview Cinco Ranch‡ Cloverleaf Crosby Highlands Mission Bend‡ Sheldon Spring The Woodlands‡
Other unincorporated communities	Airline Bammel Barker Beaumont Place Bridgeland Community Cedar Bayou Champion Forest Cimarron Coady Copperfield Cypress Dyersdale East Aldine Fairfield Fall Creek Greenwood Forest Harmaston Hockley Houmont Park Howellville Huffman Hufsmith Kinwood Klein Kleinbrook Kohrville Lakes on Eldridge Louetta Lynchburg McNair Northampton Northcliffe Northcliffe Manor North Houston Northgate Forest Nottingham Country Ponderosa Forest Remington Ranch Rose Hill Satsuma Traces Westfield
Footnotes	‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties ±water surface only in adjacent county
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