Humble (/ˈʌmbəl/ UM-bəl) is a city located in the Houston metropolitan area.

[6] Contemporary settlement of the Humble area began in the early 19th century.

The area of Humble became a center for commercial activity due to the region's large oil industry.

[7] The city got its name from one of the original founders/settlers, Pleasant Smith Humble, who opened the first post office in his home and later served as justice of the peace.

[5] The first oil was produced a couple years after the famous Spindletop discovery in Beaumont, Texas.

The town was the home of the Humble Oil & Refining Company, founded in 1911, a predecessor of Exxon.

Humble City Council passed, by a 5–1 vote, a public smoking ban that took effect on March 6, 2012.

Most of the petroleum production is shallow and encircles the city by about a 2.5-mile (4.0 km) radius.

[citation needed] The climate in this area is characterized by hot, humid summers and generally mild to cool winters.

[11] As of the 2020 United States census, there were 16,795 people, 6,373 households, and 3,411 families residing in the city.

The city was the namesake for Humble Oil and Refining Company, which later merged with the Exxon corporation.

Harris County operates a tax office at 7900 Will Clayton Parkway in Humble.

A portion of the city limits is within the Aldine Independent School District (AISD).

The community college district began operations in the Harris County/Montgomery County's northern hemisphere in the fall of 1973.

Humble's first public library opened in 1921 with the books stored in the high school.

In the early 1960s a man named Tom Shelton donated a house and lot at the intersection of First Street and Avenue D. The house was remodeled and opened as the Shelton Memorial Library.

The Tribune is locally owned and operated by Cynthia Calvert and Larry Shiflet.

The United States Postal Service Humble Post Office is located at 1202 1st Street East.

[42] The Foxbrook Finance Unit is located near Humble in an unincorporated area;[43] On Monday May 10, 2008, the Foxbrook post office was dedicated as the "Texas Military Veterans Post Office" in a ceremony hosted by U.S. Congressperson Ted Poe.

[44] Humble is the site of a Confederate concentration camp in Harry Turtledove's alternate history novel Settling Accounts: In at the Death.