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Sienna, Texas. / 29.49306°N 95.50667°W / 29.49306; -95.50667. Sienna, formerly known as Sienna Plantation, [3] is a census-designated place and master-planned community located in Fort Bend County, Texas, United States. It is mostly in the extraterritorial jurisdiction (ETJ) of Missouri City with the remainder in the ETJ of Arcola.
Sienna (from Italian: terra di Siena, meaning "Earth of Siena") is an earth pigment containing iron oxide and manganese oxide. In its natural state, it is yellowish brown, and it is called raw sienna. When heated, it becomes a reddish brown, and it is called burnt sienna. [1] It takes its name from the city-state of Siena, where it was produced ...
Houston (/ ˈ h juː s t ən / ⓘ; HEW-stən) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Texas and in the Southern United States.Located in Southeast Texas near Galveston Bay and the Gulf of Mexico, it is the seat and largest city of Harris County; as well as the principal city of the Greater Houston metropolitan area, which is the fifth-most populous metropolitan statistical area in the ...
1380966 [2] Website. www .baytown .org. Baytown is a city in the U.S. state of Texas, within Harris and Chambers counties. Located in the Houston–The Woodlands–Sugar Land metropolitan statistical area, it lies on the northern side of the Galveston Bay complex near the outlets of the San Jacinto River and Buffalo Bayou.
Caterina di Jacopo di Benincasa (25 March 1347 – 29 April 1380), known as Catherine of Siena ( Italian: Caterina da Siena ), was an Italian mystic and pious laywoman who engaged in papal and Italian politics through extensive letter-writing and advocacy. Canonized in 1461, she is revered as a saint and as a Doctor of the Church due to her ...
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]
The result of the move request was: Consensus to move page to Sienna Plantation, Texas. ( non-admin closure) — YoungForever(talk) 20:46, 6 June 2020 (UTC) [ reply] Sienna, Texas → Sienna Plantation – Sienna Plantation recently changed their name to Sienna. However, Sienna Plantation is still the WP:COMMONNAME for the place.
Texas ( / ˈtɛksəs / TEK-səss, locally also / ˈtɛksɪz / TEK-siz; [8] Spanish: Texas or Tejas, [b] pronounced [ˈtexas]) is the most populous state in the South Central region of the United States. It borders Louisiana to the east, Arkansas to the northeast, Oklahoma to the north, New Mexico to the west, and the Mexican states of Chihuahua ...