Sugar Land, Texas
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Sugar Land census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77478. The Survey maps it on the Sugar Land quadrangle. 111,026 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 98 feet above sea level.
On record in Sugar Land
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 1 record
Population over time
2 figuresSugar Land grew from 78,817 to 111,026 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 78,817 | |
| 2020 | 111,026 | +32,209 (+41%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 11 printed sheetsMatched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.
- 1950 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000
- 1955 USGS Sugar Land quadrangle1:62500
- 1956 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1970 USGS Sugar Land quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1975 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1992 USGS Houston quadrangle1:100000
- 1995 USGS Sugar Land quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
16 since 2011Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Sugar Land between 2011 and 2020, burning about 90 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 9 |
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2013 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 5 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | E073 |
| 4 September 2013 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 309 CR. 4360 |
| 3 August 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 50 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | FIRE |
| 27 August 2014 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | W PENNINGTON |
| 2 August 2015 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | WILDLAND/GRASS FIRE |
| 29 June 2013 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 715 SECR 1190 |
| 8 May 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Sugar Land: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pugmill #3 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | Gravel, Sand |
Nearest settlements
The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hall Lake | 0.4 miles | 11 | |
| Venetian Estates Section 2 | 0.5 miles | 11 | |
| Ragus Lake Estates | 1.5 miles | 14 | |
| Paynes | 1.7 miles | 11 | |
| Covington West | 2.0 miles | 14 | |
| Pheasant Creek | 2.1 miles | 14 | |
| Stratford Park | 2.4 miles | 14 | |
| Summerfield | 2.6 miles | 14 |
Elsewhere
Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.
| Wikipedia article on Sugar Land | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q93340 | The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0). |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1348034. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.







