Emergency Biohazard Cleanup Near Kendleton Historic District Kendleton, TX

Kendleton is a small city in western Fort Bend County, Texas, that began as a freedmen's settlement after the Civil War, when plantation owner William E. Kendall divided his plantation into small farms and sold the plots to formerly enslaved African Americans.

The farming community that grew from those land sales took Kendall's name, and Kendleton became one of Texas's historic Black towns.

A railroad line reached Kendleton in 1882, when the New York, Texas and Mexican Railway built through the town, and a post office opened in 1884.

Kendleton's voters chose to incorporate the community as a city in 1973, after which the population rose to more than 600.

Kendleton had 343 residents at the 2020 census, a slow decline from the 466 counted in 2000.

At the 2000 census, Kendleton's 466 residents lived in 178 households and 116 families.

In May 1939 a spectacular meteorite fireball fell near Kendleton, and scientists recovered 13 complete stones and numerous fragments from the fall, naming the meteorite 'Kendleton' after the town.

Fort Bend County owns and operates Bates M. Allen Park, located just outside the Kendleton city limits.

The city covers just 1.1 square miles on U.S. Highway 59, about fourteen miles southwest of Rosenberg, with the San Bernard River forming its western boundary.