Sugar Land
| Sugar Land | |
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| Nickname : The Land of Sugar | |
 Location in Texas
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| Basic data | |
| Foundation : | 1908 |
| State : | United States |
| State : | Texas |
| Coordinates : | 29 ° 36 ′ N , 95 ° 37 ′ W |
| Time zone : | Central ( UTC − 6 / −5 ) |
| Residents : | 78,817 (as of 2010) |
| Population density : | 1,263.1 inhabitants per km 2 |
| Area : | 64.5 km 2 (approx. 25 mi 2 ) of which 62.4 km 2 (approx. 24 mi 2 ) is land |
| Height : | 23 m |
| Postcodes : | 77478, 77479, 77487, 77496, 77498 |
| Area code : | +1 281, 713, 832 |
| FIPS : | 48-70808 |
| GNIS ID : | 1348034 |
| Website : | www.sugarlandtx.gov |
| Mayor : | James A. Thompson |
Sugar Land is a city on the Gulf Coast in the US state of Texas and is part of the Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown Metroarea . Today Sugar Land is Fort Bend County's largest city and economic center .
Sugar Land is the hottest place in Texas on average and the third hottest in the United States , according to Money magazine . Sugar Land holds the title of the fittest city in Texas for a population between 50,000 and 100,000.
history
| growth of population | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Census | Residents | ± in% | |
| 1950 | 2285 | - | |
| 1960 | 2802 | 22.6% | |
| 1970 | 3318 | 18.4% | |
| 1980 | 8826 | 166% | |
| 1990 | 33,712 | 282% | |
| 2000 | 63,328 | 87.9% | |
| 2010 | 78,817 | 24.5% | |
| 1950-2000, 2010 | |||
Before they were evicted in the 18th century, the Karankawa and Atakapa tribes lived in what is now Sugar Land. Sugar Land was established as a sugar plantation in the early 19th century .
Nathaniel Williams, whose brother Samuel was one of the first settlers in the area, bought the land in 1838 . Together they set up several plantations on which cotton , corn and sugar cane were grown, among other things . In 1853 Benjamin Terry and William J. Kyle bought the plantations and named the settlement Sugar Land. Sugar Land is now the headquarters and largest refinery of Imperial Sugar.
Demographic data
According to the 2000 census , there were 63,328 people, 20,515 households, and 17,519 families in Sugar Land. The population density was 1,015 inhabitants per km². 56.00% of the population were white, 5.20% African-American, 0.24% American Indian, 33.80% Asian and 0.03% Pacific islander, 2.32% were of a different skin color and 2.41% was a mixture of more than two skin colors. 7.98% of the population are Latin Americans.
sons and daughters of the town
- Katie Armiger (born 1991), country singer
- Stuart Holden (born 1985), football player
- Robert Horry (born 1970), basketball player
- Tara Lipinski (* 1982), figure skater
- Simone Manuel (* 1996), swimmer and Olympic champion
- Maddie Marlow, member of the country duo Maddie and Tae
- Tracy McGrady (born 1979), basketball player
- Hakeem Olajuwon (born 1963), basketball player
- Allison Tolman (born 1981), actress
Individual evidence
- ↑ Texas Almanac (PDF; 1.2 MB). Retrieved October 4, 2012
- ↑ US Census ( Memento of the original from November 11, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved October 16, 2012
