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Simonton is a small city in northwestern Fort Bend County within the Houston metropolitan area, at the intersection of Farm Roads 1093 and 1489 about five miles west of Fulshear.

The town began in the 1840s when brothers James and Theophilus Simonton bought 4,000 acres along the Brazos River and built a cotton plantation; the year 1850, when the census first showed the family in residence, is officially designated as Simonton's founding year.

By the 1860 census the Simonton plantation was one of the largest and most prosperous in Fort Bend County, with 975 improved acres that produced 11,000 bushels of corn and 600 bales of cotton — worked by 105 enslaved people recorded on the eve of the Civil War.

As farm output and railroad traffic dwindled, Simonton shrank from a busy small town into a quiet crossroads community by 1957.

The community did not incorporate as the City of Simonton until 1979, more than a century after the plantation era.

Simonton's population peaked at 814 in the 2010 census before falling 20.5% to 647 residents in 2020, spread over just 2.4 square miles.

Despite its tiny population, Simonton is affluent by Texas standards, with Census survey estimates putting its median household income at about $134,750 in 2023.