Simonton is a city in
Fort Bend County
Fort Bend County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. The county was founded in 1837 and organized the next year. It is named for a blockhouse at a bend of the Brazos River. The community developed around the fort in early days.
Th ...
,
Texas
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, United States, within the
Houston–Sugar Land–Baytown metropolitan area. Simonton is located at the intersection of Farm roads 1093 and 1489, approximately fourteen miles northwest of
Richmond, Texas
Richmond is a city in and the county seat of Fort Bend County, Texas, Fort Bend County, Texas, United States. The city is located within the metropolitan area. As of the 2020 U.S. census, the city population was 11,627. It is home to the founder ...
and five miles west of
Fulshear, Texas
Fulshear ( ) is a city in northwest Fort Bend County, Texas, Fort Bend County, Texas, United States, and is located on the western edge of the metropolitan area. The population was 16,856 as of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census.
Histor ...
. As of the
2020 U.S. Census
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, the city population was 647,
down from 814 at the 2010 census.
History
The Simonton Plantation
The first event that shaped Simonton's history was when James Simonton and his brother Theophilus bought 4000 acres of land in Northwest Fort Bend County in the 1840s.
The two Simonton brothers built a plantation next to the Brazos River. They raised cotton. The year 1850 is officially designated as the founding year for the Simonton since the 1850 US Census showed the two brothers, their mother, Mary, and Theophilus's wife and two sons residing on the property.
Another brother, Joseph, and his family moved to the plantation in the 1850s. In 1857, Theophilus helped charter the Richmond
Masonic
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Hall Association, symbolizing the elite status of the SImonton family in Fort Bend County. The town of Simonton joined
Fulshear and
Pittsville as the main rural towns in Northwest Fort Bend County.
American Civil War
At the onset of the US Civil War, the 1860 US Census shows that the Simonton's owned one of the largest and most prosperous plantations in Fort Bend County with a real property value at $200,000 and personal property valued at $155,000.
The Simonton brothers have been identified as among the largest slaveholders in Texas.
According to the 1860 US census and a subsequent research, there were 105 slaves on the Simonton plantation on the eve of the Civil War. This census also revealed that their plantation had 975 improved acres that produced 11,000 bushels of corn and 600 bales of cotton.
Like many Texas plantation owners, they supported the Confederacy.
On January 4, 1864, Joseph, James, and Theo Simonton wrote General J.B. Magruder that they were about to place in Confederate service about 40 laves Laves may refer to:
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* Georg Ludwig Friedrich Laves
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... The three brothers did not enlist in the Confederate army, but this donation of slaves to the Confederate cause was certainly a material contribution to the cause. After the war, on July 18, 1965, James Simoton signed an amnesty oath to the United States of America."
Post-Civil War Reconstruction
The plantation was broken up and sold after the war. Tracts of land were sold to incoming settlers. The Simonton's actively resisted the post-Civil War Reconstruction efforts. During the Fort Bend
Jaybird-Woodpecker political battles during post-Civil War Reconstruction, the Simonton brothers joined the Jaybirds, a faction within the Democratic Party, who wanted to oust the Woodpeckers, primarily blacks and their white allies, from the county administration.
In October 1888 in nearby
Pittsville, Theophilus Simonton Jr. was arrested by the county sheriff for fatally shooting a local black leader, Lamar Johnson, and injuring his half-brother, Taylor Randonan. This incident gained regional and national attention on the deep racial divisions of the
Jaybird-Woodpecker War raging throughout Fort Bend County.
End of the Pioneer Era
The Simonton family's position and presence gradually dwindled after the deaths of the pioneer brothers and the influx of
European immigrants who passed through
Galveston
Galveston ( ) is a coastal resort city and port off the Southeast Texas coast on Galveston Island and Pelican Island in the U.S. state of Texas. The community of , with a population of 47,743 in 2010, is the county seat of surrounding Galvesto ...
during the late 19th and early 20th Century.
Theophilus Simonton died by February 2, 1867, the date on which his will was probated. Although he had lost his slaves by the time of his death, his estate was valued at $1,311,010, a considerable sum by the standards of Reconstruction Texas. James died before June 2, 1892, when his will was probated. His estate was valued at $9,014 at that time.
Their deaths accompanied by the industrial revolution that was sweeping the United States drastically altered the economic means, and thus the social and political roles, in Simonton as well as throughout Fort Bend Country.
According to oral history documentation, the
Ku Klux Klan
The Ku Klux Klan (), commonly shortened to the KKK or the Klan, is an American white supremacist, right-wing terrorist, and hate group whose primary targets are African Americans, Jews, Latinos, Asian Americans, Native Americans, and ...
was present in Simonton from the early 20th Century, as they were in many Texas small towns, and were especially active due to the influx of foreign-born immigrants, who moved to Simonton to worked as farm and ranch help for the local cattle ranches and pecan groves.
[Duggan, B. (September 12, 1015). "Oral Interview with Charlie Morgan." Fort Bend County Historical Commission Oral History Committee. Retrieved from https://www.fortbendcountytx.gov/home/showdocument?id=40578]
From Busy Town to Quiet Crossroads Community
The next event shaping Simonton history was the advent, around 1888, of the San Antonio and Aransas Pass Railroad. It's said the company wanted the track to run through Pittsville (near what is now Fulshear) where the terrain was more level. However, the landowners in that area refused to sell the railroad a right-of-way because they believed the trains would scare their cattle. So the line was laid across the hills and creeks between Fulshear and Simonton. Water was as necessary as coal for the steam-powered locomotives, and Simonton became one of the main watering stops. With the tracks, came the people. With the tracks also came the opportunity to ship the area's farm produce to other parts of the country.
In subsequent years, Simonton developed into a robust agricultural community. Snap shots of this historical has been noted in several oral historical accounts:
*
Red Potato Farming. In 1906,
D.H. (Dave) Mullins, who came to Simonton from Kansas, began growing potatoes on a commercial scale – 150 acres that first year. Later he and J.R. Spencer, also from Kansas, working together, planted 1000 acres of red potatoes. Other farmers followed suit; and during one of the best years, 800 railroad cars of potatoes were shipped out of Simonton to places like Chicago, Kansas City, and Cincinnati. The Simonton area became one of the country's major producers of red potatoes.
Gradually the red potato demand dwindled due to the onset of a disease and
Luther Burbank
Luther Burbank (March 7, 1849 – April 11, 1926) was an American botanist, horticulturist and pioneer in agricultural science.
He developed more than 800 strains and varieties of plants over his 55-year career. Burbank's varied creations inc ...
's development of the white potato. In its place, alfalfa, cotton, pecans, and pure-bred cattle ranching replaced the acres of potatoes.
* Pure-bred
Cattle Ranching
A ranch (from es, rancho/Mexican Spanish) is an area of land, including various structures, given primarily to ranching, the practice of raising grazing livestock such as cattle and sheep. It is a subtype of a farm. These terms are most often ...
. The Simonton-Fulshear-Brookshire became known as the "River Oaks of the pure-bred cattle business" and was tied in closely with the annual
Houston Livestock Show.
The pure-bred breeders in the community included the Diamond C Ranch (
Herefords), Pecan Acres (
Brahman cattle
The Brahman is an American breed of zebuine-taurine hybrid beef cattle. It was bred in the United States from 1885 from cattle originating in India, imported at various times from the United Kingdom, from India and from Brazil. These were mainl ...
), Figure 4 Ranch (
Charolais,
Brahman
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, and
Charbray), and the Bar C Ranch (Brahman, Charbray, and Charolais).
*
Prison farm
A prison farm (also known as a penal farm) is a large correctional facility where penal labor convicts are forced to work on a farm legally and illegally (in the wide sense of a productive unit), usually for manual labor, largely in the open air ...
. From 1898 to 1909, Simonton was the site of a prison farm. A Captain South was in charge of convicts who cleared the land from Simonton to the Brazos River for farming of ribbon cane for syrup. Until very recently, a barn used by these convicts as a mess hall, bars still on the windows, stood near the Simonton crossroads.
* Busy Town. During the years that agriculture output was important, Simonton developed a busy "downtown". There were as many as three general stores. One, owned by A.A. (Tom) Mullins, offered a hotel on the second floor with potato buyers and railroad men as regular guests. Another hotel located in the Scruggs home, was run by a Mrs. Bentley, whose culinary skills made Simonton a favored meal stop for travelers. There was also a
blacksmith shop
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, two
cotton gin
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s, a
lumber yard
A lumber yard is a location where lumber and wood-related products used in construction and/or home improvement projects are processed or stored. Some lumber yards offer retail sales to consumers, and some of these may also provide services suc ...
, a post office and the
railroad depot
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.
* Education. In 1893, the first school for white students was established in Simonton. A census of eligible school children taken in 1911 revealed 544 students.
In 1925, noted Houston architect Louis Glover designed this two-story school for nine grades.
The art deco-style building which exists today has a "stuccoed brick symmetrical façade with porticoes, grouped windows and ornamentation tiles."
In subsequent years in the
Great Depression
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, the facility was used to host dances, suppers, elections, and church services, The school was annexed into the Lamar Consolidated ISD in 1950.
The school for black students was also established.
* H. Berkman & Co. General Store.
[Goodsill, J, and B. Kelly. (October 7, 2010). "Oral Interview with Maurice Berkman." Fort Bend County Historical Commission Oral History Committee. Retrieved from https://www.fortbendcountytx.gov/home/showdocument?id=30518] It was built by Hyman "Harry" Berkman, who came to Simonton from Poland in 1913, during the agricultural boom in Simonton in the early 20th century. The store contained the post office, the general store, and
butcher shop
A butcher is a person who may slaughter animals, dress their flesh, sell their meat, or participate within any combination of these three tasks. They may prepare standard cuts of meat and poultry for sale in retail or wholesale food establishm ...
. Maurice and Flo Berkman (married June 24, 1956), who were members of the now defunct Jewish
synagogue
A synagogue, ', 'house of assembly', or ', "house of prayer"; Yiddish: ''shul'', Ladino: or ' (from synagogue); or ', "community". sometimes referred to as shul, and interchangeably used with the word temple, is a Jewish house of worshi ...
in
Warton, Texas,
operated store for more than 62 years until their retirement and subsequent move to Houston.
*Dwindling Population. As agricultural output declined and railroad traffic dwindled, people started moving away, mostly to
Houston
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with its growing industry and higher wages. The depot closed in 1953; and it wasn't long before the last cotton gin closed down. Eventually, what was left was a small café, a pecan barn, the post office, a small liquor store and Berkman's general store.
Gradually by 1957, Simonton had changed from a busy small town to a quiet crossroads community. Then came the beginnings of a new stage in the life of the town. Vernon Evans, owner of the nearby Rue Ranch, and his son-in-law, A.E. "Snake" Bailey, bought 850 acres of land along FM 1093 to be developed as a western community with stables and a small arena and club house, the hub around which houses would be built. The development was called Valley Lodge. Valley Lodge subdivision was the first subdivision out of the city of Houston within commuting distance.
File:Gathering potatoes in Fort Bend County, Tx LCCN2012646375.jpg, Harvesting potatoes in Fort Bend County, Tx
International VIP – Chinese Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping's 1979 Visit to the Simonton Rodeo
In the months following the
Sino-US normalization, China's
Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping
Deng Xiaoping (22 August 1904 – 19 February 1997) was a Chinese revolutionary leader, military commander and statesman who served as the paramount leader of the People's Republic of China (PRC) from December 1978 to November 1989. After CC ...
visited the United States for nine days in 1979, visiting Washington, Atlanta, Houston and Seattle. On February 2 during his visit to Houston, he spent an evening in Simonton at the Roundup Rodeo.
In 1963 the Round Up was built on FM 1093. Also the brainchild of "Snake" Bailey, it is a large indoor rodeo arena in full swing every Saturday night, drawing people from Houston and elsewhere for a taste of the "real west." He rode in a stagecoach, and later a
barrel racer
Barrel racing is a rodeo event in which a horse and rider attempt to run a cloverleaf pattern around preset barrels in the fastest time. In collegiate and professional ranks, it is usually a women's event, though both sexes compete at amateur and ...
gave the premier a cowboy-style duster and a ten-gallon hat, both of which he donned and displayed before the crowd.
Deng's visit to the Simonton rodeo is considered to be the tipping point in the thaw of US-China relations.
The Simonton Rodeo closed by 1997 when it was bought and restored by Benchmark Wireline, an oil services company. A China Daily Global video captures the memories of this visit, including Katie Van Dries whose father Luke owned the rodeo at that time.
The photographs of Deng in the cowboy hat appeared in American newspapers, displaying a distinctly human side to a previously mysterious Chinese leader.
As
Ezra F. Vogel, a biographer of Deng, put it, the
"photograph of Deng smiling beneath his ten-gallon hat became the symbol of his visit. It signaled to the U.S. public that he was not only good-humored, but, after all, less like one of 'those Communists' and more like 'us.'" With live broadcasts back to China, these events made news for Deng's home audience, too.
City Incorporated
In 1979, the community incorporated as the City of Simonton. The population grew to 603 in 1980 and 718 in 2000. In 2010 the population was 814.
Geography
![SimontonTXMap](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/66/SimontonTXMap.gif)
Simonton is located in northwestern Fort Bend County at (29.679783, –95.990302).
The center of town is east of the
Brazos River
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and northwest of
Rosenberg. Downtown
Houston
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is to the east. According to the
United States Census Bureau
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, Simonton has a total area of , of which , or 0.24%, is water.
Almost all of the City is located within the
Federal Emergency Management Agency
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is an agency of the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS), initially created under President Jimmy Carter by Presidential Reorganization Plan No. 3 of 1978 and implemented by two Exec ...
(FEMA) 100-year floodplain of the Brazos River. See the FEMA Preliminary Map 2017.1.30 panel 80 and FEMA Preliminary Map 2017.1.30 panel 90. Real-time river gauges for the Brazos River are available here.
Simonton has been plagued by repeated flooding due to being located one mile east of the
Brazos River
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, and it considered to located in the 100-year
floodplain
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of the Brazos River. The most significant Brazos River flooding recorded were:
* 1913 Major Flood.
*October 1991 with 100 homes flooded
* December 1995 with 125 homes flooded and caused approximately $2.5 million dollars damage
* May 2016 when cows became stranded.
* August 2017 as a result of
Hurricane Harvey
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.
While plagued by flooding, the City of Simonton purchased two drainage pumps for $95,000 that has reduced the impact of the Brazos River flooding. These pumps were partly paid for by a grant from the Federal Emergency Management Agency's Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP).
Demographics
2020 Census
As of the
2020 United States census
The United States census of 2020 was the twenty-fourth decennial United States census. Census Day, the reference day used for the census, was April 1, 2020. Other than a pilot study during the 2000 census, this was the first U.S. census to of ...
, there were 647 people, 229 households, and 188 families residing in the city.
2000 Census
As of the
census
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of 2000, there were 718 people, 264 households, and 206 families residing in the city. The
population density
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was 354.4 people per square mile (136.6/km). There were 282 housing units at an average density of 139.2/sq mi (53.6/km). The racial makeup of the city was 91.64%
White
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, 5.01%
African American
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, 0.28%
Asian
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** Asian people, people in or descending from Asia
** Asian culture, the culture of the people from Asia
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, 0.14%
Pacific Islander
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, 1.95% from
other races
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, and 0.97% from two or more races.
Hispanic
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The term commonly applies to countries with a cultural and historical link to Spain and to Vic ...
or
Latino
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* Hispanic and Latino Americans in the United States
* The people or cultures of Latin America;
** Latin A ...
of any race were 6.13% of the population.
There were 264 households, out of which 34.8% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 71.6% were
married couples
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living together, 3.8% had a female householder with no husband present, and 21.6% were non-families. 18.6% of all households were made up of individuals, and 7.6% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.72 and the average family size was 3.07.
The city population is evenly spread: 25.9% is under the age of 18, 4.7% is between 18 and 24, 29.0% is from 25 to 44, 30.4% from 45 to 64, and 10.0% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 41 years. For every 100 females, there were 102.8 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 96.3 males.
The median income for a household in the city was $72,833, and the median income for a family was $81,905. Males had a median income of $51,842 versus $30,333 for females. The
per capita income
Per capita income (PCI) or total income measures the average income earned per person in a given area (city, region, country, etc.) in a specified year. It is calculated by dividing the area's total income by its total population.
Per capita i ...
for the city was $30,669. About 2.5% of families and 5.3% of the population were below the
poverty line
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, including 7.9% of those under age 18 and 5.8% of those age 65 or over.
Government and infrastructure
Fort Bend County does not have a
hospital district
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.
OakBend Medical Center serves as the county's
charity hospital
Charity may refer to:
Giving
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* Charity (practice), the practice of being benevolent, giving and sharing
* Ch ...
which the county contracts with.
Mayor and Council members
US Post Office
The
United States Postal Service
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operates the Simonton Post Office at 35608
Farm to Market Road 1093
A farm (also called an agricultural holding) is an area of land that is devoted primarily to agricultural processes with the primary objective of producing food and other crops; it is the basic facility in food production. The name is used fo ...
.
Public Library
Fulshear's Bob Lutts Fulshear/Simonton Branch Library, located in
Fulshear, is a part of the
Fort Bend County Libraries
Fort Bend County Libraries is a public library system serving the county of Fort Bend, Texas. The main library, the George Memorial Library, is located in Richmond, Texas.
History
Prior to the founding of the Fort Bend County Library there exis ...
system. The branch, which opened in May 1998, was the third branch built with 1989 bond funds. The land currently occupied by the library was previously the Fort Bend County Precinct 4 headquarters. Bob Lutts, the precinct commissioner, offered the land to the library system. The Fulshear City Council asked the county to name the library after Lutts. The library is now within Precinct 3.
File:Simonton TX City Hall and Fire.jpg, Simonton City Hall and Fire Station on FM 1093
File:Simonton TX Post Office.jpg, US Post Office on FM 1093
File:Fulshear TX Lutts Library.jpg, Bob Lutts Library on FM 359 in Fulshear
Education
Simonton is zoned to schools in the
Lamar Consolidated Independent School District
Lamar Consolidated Independent School District, also Lamar Consolidated ISD, Lamar CISD or LCISD, is a public school district in the U.S. state of Texas within the Houston–Sugar Land–Metropolitan Area.
Lamar CISD includes almos ...
.
;Current zoned schools:
* Huggins Elementary School (Fulshear)
* Leaman Junior High School (Fulshear)
*
Fulshear High School
Churchill Fulshear, Jr. High School is a senior high school in the LCISD Education Center in Fulshear, Texas, and in the Houston metropolitan area. The school, which serves the LCISD portion of Fulshear, Weston Lakes, and Simonton, is a part o ...
(Fulshear)
; Previous zoned schools:
*
Foster High School (Richmond postal address)
* Briscoe Junior High School (Richmond postal address)
Private schools
* Simonton Christian Academy (Simonton)
The designated community college for LCISD is
Wharton County Junior College
Wharton County Junior College (WCJC) is a public community college with its main campus in Wharton, Texas. The college also has campuses in Richmond, Sugar Land, and Bay City. WCJC is accredited by the Southern Association of College ...
.
Texas Education Code Sec. 130.211. WHARTON COUNTY JUNIOR COLLEGE DISTRICT SERVICE AREA.
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File:Lamar CISD Fulshear High School.jpg, Churchill Fulshear High School
Churchill Fulshear, Jr. High School is a senior high school in the LCISD Education Center in Fulshear, Texas, and in the Houston metropolitan area. The school, which serves the LCISD portion of Fulshear, Weston Lakes, Texas, Weston Lakes, and Sim ...
File:Lamar CISD Leaman Jr High School.jpg, Dean Leaman Junior High School
File:Lamar CISD Huggins Elem School.jpg, Huggins Elementary School
Media
Simonton is one of the key towns featured in the 2009 documentary "The Heart of Texas Movie"
File:Simonton TX Community Church.jpg, Simonton Community Church on FM 1489 south
Notable people
*Dobie Gray
Dobie Gray (born Lawrence Darrow Brown; July 26, 1940 – December 6, 2011) was an American singer and songwriter whose musical career spanned soul, country, pop, and musical theater. His hit songs included " The 'In' Crowd" in 1965 and "Dr ...
, singer
References
External links
City of Simonton official website
*
*ABC Report (video)
China 1979: Deng Xiaoping visits Texas February 2nd 1979
*China Daily Global (video)
Texas town remembers Deng's 1979 visit
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