<Tr> <Th> GNIS feature ID </Th> <Td> 1348034 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Website </Th> <Td> www.sugarlandtx.gov </Td> </Tr> <P> Sugar Land is a city in Fort Bend County, Texas, United States, located in the southwestern part of the Houston--The Woodlands--Sugar Land metropolitan area . Located approximately 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 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 . Since then, 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 . </P> <P> Sugar Land is one of the most affluent and fastest - growing cities in Texas . Its population increased more than 158 percent between 1990 and 2000 . Between 2000 and 2007, Sugar Land also saw a 46% increase in jobs . As of the 2010 census, the city's population was 78,817 . Following the annexation of the Greatwood and New Territory communities in December 2017, the city's population was estimated at 117,869 as of January 1, 2018 . </P>

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