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Sandy Point is a small city on Farm to Market Road 521 in north central Brazoria County, about seventeen miles northwest of Angleton, the county seat.

In the 19th century, Sandy Point was a farming community on the Missouri Pacific line that served the nearby sugar cane and cotton plantations of Brazoria County.

Sandy Point's post office opened in 1854, and by 1884 the community shipped sugar, molasses, and cotton and had two general stores, several sugar mills and cotton gins, and a population of about 250.

Sandy Point Cemetery, on land that was once part of a sugar and cotton plantation, includes the graves of soldiers from the Texas Revolution, the Mier Expedition, and the Civil War.

In 1906 Sandy Point had one white school with one teacher and four pupils and two Black schools with two teachers and sixty-eight pupils; its schools were consolidated into the Angleton Independent School District by 1948.

Sandy Point faded through the 20th century — its post office, school, and railroad all disappeared — and by 1970 only about thirty residents remained, though two churches still stood in the community decades later.

Sandy Point incorporated in 2012 in order to avoid annexation by Missouri City, and in 2015 Missouri City agreed to recognize Sandy Point's incorporation.

The population of Sandy Point was 207 at the 2020 census.

Sandy Point is located at the entrance to the Memorial Unit (formerly the Darrington Unit), a prison for men operated by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.