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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 ...
The city, which is the ninth-largest in the United States by area, covers 601.7 square miles (1,558 km 2), of which 579.4 square miles (1,501 km 2), or 96.3%, is land and 22.3 square miles (58 km 2), or 3.7%, is water. Houston is located in the Gulf Coastal Plain biome, and its vegetation is classified as temperate grassland.
Greater Houston, designated by the United States Office of Management and Budget as Houston–The Woodlands–Sugar Land, [4] [5] [6] is the fifth-most populous metropolitan statistical area in the United States, [7] [8] [9] encompassing nine counties along the Gulf Coast in Southeast Texas. With a population of 7,122,240 in 2020, Greater ...
Experts explain how drought taps out water wells. Water levels in wells across Texas are running low because of the extreme drought, groundwater experts say. Drought conditions in the state are ...
Surface elevation. 314 ft (96 m) [1] Richland-Chambers Reservoir is the third largest inland reservoir by surface area and the 8th largest reservoir by water volume in Texas formed by the impoundment of Richland Creek and Chambers Creek east-southeast of the town of Corsicana and south of Kerens, in Navarro County and Freestone County, Texas, USA.
Lake Travis is a reservoir on the Colorado River in central Texas in the United States. It is named in honor of William B. Travis. [1] Serving principally as a flood-control reservoir, Lake Travis' historical minimum to maximum water height change is nearly 100 feet. [2] For example, following the 2018 Llano River flood (the Llano River feeds ...
The Rio Grande Valley Sugar Growers sugar mill had to close in February due to repeated water shortages after 50 years. It was the last sugar mill in Texas employing over 500 workers.
104 yard TD return – Houston Oilers. Charles Kenneth Hall (born December 13, 1935) nicknamed " Sugar Land Express ", [1] is a former American football player. Playing for the Sugar Land High School Gators ( Sugar Land, Texas) from 1950 to 1953, Hall established 17 national football records, several of which still stand.