Unattended Death and Biohazard Cleanup in Pearland, TX

Pearland is a Houston-area city based in Brazoria County, with portions also extending into Fort Bend and Harris counties.

Pearland began in the 1890s along the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway, when Polish landowner William Zychlinski bought the land and platted the original townsite; the town took its name from the pear orchards growing nearby.

The young town was nearly wiped off the map by the catastrophic 1900 Galveston hurricane, which destroyed most of its buildings and cut its population by almost three-quarters.

For decades Pearland stayed a small agricultural community of pear orchards, grain fields and cattle ranches, with only about 1,500 residents into the 1960s.

Pearland did not incorporate as a city until 1959, unusually late for a community founded in the nineteenth century.

The 2020 Census counted 125,828 people in Pearland - a dramatic rise from 91,252 in 2010 and under 19,000 as recently as 1990.

Pearland has roughly 44,000 households, and about three-quarters of them are family households, giving the city a strongly suburban, family-oriented profile.

Much of Pearland's growth has come through large master-planned communities such as Shadow Creek Ranch, Sunrise Lakes, Southern Trails and Southdown.

Major employers in Pearland include the Pearland Independent School District, Pearland Medical Center and energy-services firm Baker Hughes.