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Fulshear traces its origins to July 16, 1824, when Churchill Fulshear, one of Stephen F. Austin's original "Old Three Hundred" settlers, received a Mexican land grant in what is now northwestern Fort Bend County.

In 1888 Churchill Fulshear Jr. granted the San Antonio and Aransas Pass Railway a right-of-way through his land, drawing families to the area, and in 1890 the town of Fulshear was laid out, platted, and granted a post office.

By 1898 Fulshear had 250 residents supporting eleven stores, three saloons, a school, and a hotel, but the population fell to about 100 by 1933 during the Great Depression.

Fulshear incorporated in 1977 and long remained a small marketing center for locally produced rice, cotton, soybeans, corn, poultry, sorghum, horses, and cattle — it had only 1,134 residents as recently as the 2010 census.

Houston's westward sprawl triggered explosive growth: the 2020 census counted 16,856 residents, and Census Bureau estimates put Fulshear's population at roughly 64,630 by 2025.

The U.S. Census Bureau ranked Fulshear the second fastest-growing city in the nation among cities of 20,000 or more in back-to-back years.

Census Bureau surveys count about 9,977 households in Fulshear, and around 90 percent of its homes are owner-occupied.

In May 2017, Fulshear was listed as the richest small town in Texas by MSN.com.

Fulshear's city limits cover a little over 12 square miles, with roughly 29 additional square miles in its extraterritorial jurisdiction, about 60 miles inland from the Gulf of Mexico.

Fulshear children are served by two school districts, Lamar Consolidated ISD and Katy ISD, including Fulshear High School in Lamar Consolidated ISD.