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River Chase

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River Chase sits at the east end of Kingwood, just north of Kingwood Drive and east of Mills Branch. Mills Branch is worth knowing as a road in its own right, it runs up through the back side of Porter and picks up small hubs along the way, convenience stores, a pizza place, taco spots. Handy when you don't want to drive into the town center for everything.

Prices here run roughly from $350K to $800K as of October 2026, from my read of recent sales. It covers a fair range depending on the street and the house.

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North side, south side

River Chase has a north side and a south side.

The practical divider is a drainage channel running through the middle, carrying water from Kingwood out to the East Fork of the San Jacinto. It isn't an official boundary, but it does split things up. The south side connects into the trail system that runs down to East End Park. The north side has its own separate trail network. Same neighborhood on paper, two different sets of connections day to day.

Schools

Humble ISD serves River Chase. To see which schools serve a specific address, use the district's own address lookup on Humble ISD's website.

The floodplain

Parts of River Chase sit in the floodplain. I want to be straightforward about that rather than leave it out.

What I can't tell you from here is which specific streets or which specific addresses, because that varies and it deserves an actual look rather than a generalization. What I'd tell any buyer looking here is the same thing I'd tell someone looking anywhere in this part of Kingwood: check the address, not the neighborhood. The flood guide walks through how the FEMA maps work, what the zones actually mean, and how to read the risk on one specific address.

Part of Kingwood

River Chase is one of Kingwood's villages. For the fuller picture of what Kingwood is like day to day, the trails, the town center, the country club, the rest of the villages, see the Kingwood hub page.

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