Sugar Land

Sugar Land is the largest city in Fort Bend County, Texas , United States, located in the southwestern part of the Houston – The Woodlands – Sugar Land 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. 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.