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Fort Bend County is a county located along the Gulf Coast region in the U.S. state of Texas within the Houston–Sugar Land–Baytown metropolitan area.
	In 1837, the Congress of the Republic of Texas incorporated Richmond and eighteen other towns.  Later in the same year, the County of Fort Bend was created from portions of Austin, Harris and Brazoria County. Notable citizens of the county included Jane Long, Mirabeau B. Lamar, and  Samuel May Williams. Richmond became a prosperous trade center for the surrounding agricultural region. Cotton and sugar and other products were sent down the Brazos River to the Port of Galveston. The early sugar cane plantations and farms supplied the Imperial Sugar industrial complex and its company town evolved into the current City of Sugar Land. When the railroad from Galveston through Richmond was built in the 1850’s, the county became a ready provider of agricultural products and raw materials to coastal markets and beyond. Cotton continues to be a staple of the agricultural economy.
Cities	Towns	Unincorporated areas
Arcola Fulshear Houston (partially in Fort Bend) Katy (partially in Fort Bend) Meadows Place Missouri City (partially in Fort Bend) Needville Pearland (partially in Fort Bend) Richmond Rosenberg Stafford (partially in Fort Bend) Sugar Land	Beasley Clodine Fairchilds Kendleton Orchard Pleak Simonton Thompsons	Cinco Ranch Cumings DeWalt Fifth Street Fresno Greatwood Mission Bend Rosharon Sienna Plantation
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