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Richmond is a suburb of Houston and the county seat of Fort Bend County, Texas, United States. [5] The city is located within the Houston–The Woodlands–Sugar Land metropolitan area. As of the 2020 U.S. census , the city population was 11,627.
In 1822, a group of Stephen F. Austin's colonists, headed by William Travis, built a fort at the present site of Richmond. The fort was called Fort Bend because it was built in the bend of the Brazos River. [6] The city of Richmond was incorporated under the Republic of Texas along with 19 other towns in 1837. Fort Bend County was created from ...
The John M. and Lottie D. Moore House is at 406 S. Fifth Street, in Richmond, Texas, United States.It is currently part of the Fort Bend Museum complex. [2] It was added to the National Register of Historic Places listings in Fort Bend County, Texas in 2001, and became a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark in 1962.
The Fort Bend County Courthouse is a historic courthouse located in Richmond, Texas, United States. It was built in 1908 by Charles Henry Page, who also designed several other Texas courthouses. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places and Recorded Texas Historic Landmarks in 1980 and designated a Texas State Antiquities ...
John and Randolph Foster High School [2] is a secondary school located in unincorporated Fort Bend County, Texas, United States, north of Rosenberg.. The school is part of the Lamar Consolidated Independent School District.
Richmond, an 1827 crime novel by Thomas Skinner Surr; Confitería Richmond, a former tea room and literary café in Buenos Aires, Argentina; Richmond (automobile), cars built in Richmond, Indiana, United States; Richmond (cigarette) Richmond Herald, in England, an officer of arms; Richmond (Natchez, Mississippi), a historic mansion built in 1810
Hilmar Guenther Moore (/ ˈ h ɪ l m ər ˈ ɡ ʊ n θ ər /; July 28, 1920 – December 4, 2012) was an American rancher and long-time mayor of Richmond, Texas, for over 60 years. He was the longest-serving mayor in Texas, and possibly the United States.
While only about 20% of Texas counties are generally located within the Houston—Dallas—San Antonio—Austin areas, they serve a majority of the state's population with approximately 22,000,000 inhabitants. Texas was originally divided into municipalities (municipios in Spanish), a unit of local government under Spanish and Mexican rule.