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Schlumberger maintains a 33-acre (13 ha) campus at the northeast corner of U.S. Highway 90A and Gillingham Lane in Sugar Land, Texas; as of 2017 Schlumberger is the third largest employer in the city. In 2015, Schlumberger announced that it was moving its U.S. corporate headquarters to the Sugar Land facility from its Houston office building.
Sugar Land (sometimes spelled as Sugarland) is the largest city in Fort Bend County, Texas, United States, located in the southwestern part of the Houston–The Woodlands–Sugar Land metropolitan area. Located about 19 miles (31 km) southwest of downtown Houston, Sugar Land is a populous suburban municipality centered around the junction of ...
Fort Bend County was created from parts of Austin, Harris, and Brazoria Counties in 1838. Fort Bend developed a plantation economy based on cotton as the commodity crop. Planters had numerous African-American slaves as laborers. By the 1850s, Fort Bend was one of six majority-black counties in Texas. [7]
This area is the location of First Colony Mall, Sugar Land Town Square (which is home to the new Sugar Land City Hall), and other major commercial areas. This area boasts a wide range of recreational activities including three golf courses and country clubs. Two of them, Riverbend Country Club (18 holes) and Sugar Creek Country Club (27 holes ...
First Colony. First Colony is a 9,700-acre (39 km 2) master-planned community in Fort Bend County, Texas. The community, with approximately 50,000 residents, [2] encompasses over 9,500 residential houses in 98 neighborhoods [3] [4] located across southern parts of Sugar Land with a few neighborhoods spanning into Missouri City .
Stafford, Texas. / 29.62417°N 95.56333°W / 29.62417; -95.56333. Stafford is a city in the U.S. state of Texas, in the Houston–The Woodlands–Sugar Land metropolitan area. The city is mostly in Fort Bend County, with a small part in Harris County. As of the 2020 census, Stafford's population was 17,666, [4] down from 17,693 at the ...
Texas's 22nd congressional district of the United States House of Representatives covers a largely suburban southwestern portion of the Greater Houston metropolitan area. The district includes most of Fort Bend County, including most of the cities of Sugar Land, Rosenberg, Needville and the county seat of Richmond as well as the county's share of the largely unincorporated Greater Katy area ...
Sugar Land Regional Airport. / 29.62222°N 95.65667°W / 29.62222; -95.65667. Sugar Land Regional Airport ( IATA: SGR, ICAO: KSGR, FAA LID: SGR) is a city-owned public-use airport located in Sugar Land, Texas ( USA ), 17 miles (27 km) southwest of the central business district of Houston. [1] [2] Founded privately in the early 1950s as ...