Fort Bend County/Texas Counties Power Trail #079 Traditional Cache
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Fort Bend County/Texas Counties Power Trail #079
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8/18/2011
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Fort Bend County is a county located along the Gulf
Coast region in the U.S. state of Texas within the
Houston–Sugar Land–Baytown metropolitan area. In 2000
its population was 354,452, while the 2010 U.S. Census official
county population is 585,375., amounting to 65.1% growth in ten
years.
Since the 1970s Fort Bend County has been one of the
fastest-growing counties in the United States. It is named for a
blockhouse at a bend of the Brazos River; the fort was the start of
the community in early days. Its county seat is Richmond, while its
largest city is Sugar Land. It was founded in 1837.
Fort Bend County (K-21) is in the coastal plains of southeastern
Texas. Richmond, the county seat, at 29°35' north latitude and
95°45' west longitude, is twenty-eight miles west-southwest of
Houston and at the approximate center of the county. The county
comprises 869 square miles of level to slightly rolling terrain
with an elevation ranging from eighty to 250 feet above sea level.
Temperatures range from an average high of 94° F in July to an
average low of 44° in January; rainfall averages slightly more than
forty-five inches a year, and the growing season lasts 296 days.
The Brazos River flows diagonally northwest to southeast through
the county and drains the broad central valley via numerous creeks
and bayous. The San Bernard River, which forms the west boundary,
drains the western quarter of the county. Major streams include Big
Creek, which flows east into the Brazos River; Oyster Creek, which
winds parallel to and east of the Brazos River; and Buffalo Bayou,
which rises in the northern tip of the county and flows east into
Harris County. Soils vary from rich alluvial in the Brazos valley
to sandy loams and clay on the prairies. Native trees include
pecan, oak, ash, and cottonwood; there are some timberlands in the
north and along streams. Mineral resources include natural gas,
oil, and sulfur; sand, clay, and gravel are also produced in
commercial quantities.
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