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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]
Planning. The city has the most master-planned communities in Fort Bend County, which is home to the largest number of master-planned communities in the nation.The first master-planned community to be developed in Sugar Land was Sugar Creek, a 1,200-acre (4.9 km 2) community consisting mainly of luxury homes on the city's east side.
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 .
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 ...
Rosenberg, Texas. / 29.55250°N 95.80500°W / 29.55250; -95.80500. Rosenberg is a city in the U.S. state of Texas, within the Houston–The Woodlands–Sugar Land metropolitan area and Fort Bend County. Rosenberg was named for Henry Von Rosenberg, who emigrated to Texas from Switzerland in 1843.
Abolished in 1899 and annexed to Webb County. Foley County, formed in 1887 from Presidio County. Annexed in 1897 to Brewster County. Greer County, formed in 1860. Separated from Texas by U.S. Supreme Court ruling in United States v. the State of Texas, 162 U.S. 1 (1896) and is now part of southwestern Oklahoma.