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Simonton is a city in Fort Bend County, Texas, United States, within the Houston\u2013Sugar Land\u2013Baytown metropolitan area. Simonton is located at the intersection of Farm roads 1093 and 1489, approximately fourteen miles northwest of Richmond and five miles west of Fulshear. As of the 2020 U.S. Census, the city population was 647,[4] down from 814 at the 2010 census.\n<\/p>
The first event that shaped Simonton's history was when James Simonton and his brother Theophilus bought 4000 acres of land in northwestern Fort Bend County in the 1840s.[5][6] The two Simonton brothers built a plantation next to the Brazos River, on which they raised cotton. The year 1850 is officially designated as the founding year for Simonton, since the 1850 US Census showed the two brothers, their mother, Mary, and Theophilus's wife and two sons residing on the property.[5][7] Another brother, Joseph, and his family moved to the plantation in the 1850s. In 1857, Theophilus helped charter the Richmond Masonic Hall Association, symbolizing the elite status of the Simonton family in Fort Bend County.[8][9] The town of Simonton joined Fulshear and Pittsville as the main rural towns in northwestern Fort Bend County.\n<\/p><\/div>\n