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Sugar Land is the largest city in Fort Bend County, Texas, United States, located in the southwestern part of the Houston–Pasadena–The Woodlands metropolitan area. Located about 19 miles (31 km) southwest of downtown Houston, Sugar Land is a populous suburban municipality centered around the junction of Texas State Highway 6 and Interstate 69/U.S. Route 59.
Beginning in the 19th century, the present-day Sugar Land area was home to a large sugar plantation situated in the fertile floodplain of the Brazos River. Following the consolidation of local plantations into Imperial Sugar Company in 1908, Sugar Land grew steadily as a company town and incorporated as a city in 1959. Sugar Land has grown rapidly alongside other edge cities around Houston, with large-scale development of master-planned communities contributing to population swells since the 1980s.
Sugar Land is one of the fastest-growing cities in Texas.[4] The 2020 United States Census reported that the city’s population had grown more than 40% in the preceding 10 years following the annexation of the Greatwood and New Territory communities in December 2017.[5] Over the same 10-year period, the number of employed persons living in Sugar Land increased by 61%.[6]
Sugar Land is home to the headquarters of Imperial Sugar although the company’s main sugar refinery and distribution center are no longer located in the city. The Imperial Sugar crown logo is featured in the city seal and logo.