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	Fort Bend County, Texas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Fort Bend County is a county located along the Gulf Coast region in the U.S. state of Texas within the Houston–Sugar Land–Baytown Metropolitan Area.
		According the 2000 U.S. Census, the population is 354,452 with a 2004 estimate at 442,620.
		The county is expected to triple in population within the next 30 years.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fort_Bend_County,_Texas (506 words)

	Encyclopedia article: Fort Bend County, Texas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Fort Bend County is a county (A region created by territorial division for the purpose of local government) located in the state (The way something is with respect to its main attributes) of Texas (The second largest state; located in southwestern United States on the Gulf of Mexico).
		Fort Bend is named for a blockhouse positioned in a bend of the Brazos River (A river that rises in Mexico and flows across Texas into the Gulf of Mexico) which was the center of life in the future county in early days.
		at the University of Texas (A university in Austin, Texas)
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/f/fo/fort_bend_county,_texas.htm (642 words)

	Encyclopedia: Fort Bend County, Texas
		Fort Bend County is a county located in the U.S. State of Texas.
		Fort Bend County (K-21) is in the coastal plains of southeastern Texas.
		Fort Bend County population declined between 1940 and 1950; however, in the same period, Rosenberg grew by nearly a third and Richmond held steady, a fact that reflects the national rural-to-urban movement.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Fort-Bend-County,-Texas (1128 words)

	Texas Cooperative Extension, The Fort Bend County Office
		Fort Bend County recognizes that leisure and relaxation are an essential part of a healthy, quality environment; hence there is a prominent focus on park and recreational facilities.
		Texas Cooperative Extension is a “people program” built on the contributions of Extension agents and specialists; local residents who serve on advisory groups; Texans of all ages, racial and ethnic groups and educational backgrounds; program aides; and volunteers.
		Fort Bend County provides fast, friendly service to its customers and continually strives to be number one in efficiency and effectiveness.
	fortbend-co.tamu.edu (278 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online: FORT BEND COUNTY
		Richmond, the county seat, at 29°35' north latitude and 95°45' west longitude, is twenty-eight miles west-southwest of Houston and at the approximate center of the county.
		By 1925, of the 3,659 farms in the county, approximately 72 percent were operated by tenants, a partial result of a statewide economic recession and adverse summer weather from 1919 to 1922.
		In the last decades of the twentieth century Fort Bend was among the fastest-growing counties in the United States.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/FF/hcf7.html (2715 words)

	FortBendNow: Local news in Fort Bend County, Texas
		Fort Bend County officials will be dealing with dueling legal opinions from prestigious Austin law firms, as they try to settle questions over operations of the county attorney’s office.
		Fort Bend County Commissioners Court began grappling Tuesday with the realities of new conflict-of-interest legislation aimed at disclosing business relationships between county vendors, county officials and their families.
		Fort Bend County Attorney Bud Childers may have resigned on Monday, but by Thursday it was back to the office for him.
	www.fortbendnow.com (1817 words)

	Fort Bend County, Texas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		As of the U.S. Census 2000, the population is 354,452 with a 2004 population estimate of 442,620.
		Fort Bend County is part of the Houston—Sugar Land—Baytown Metropolitan Area, the eighth largest metropolitan area in the United States with a population of over 5 million.
		Fort Bend County in Handbook of Texas Online (http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/FF/hcf7.html) from The University of Texas at Austin
	sugarland.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Fort_Bend_County,_Texas (492 words)

	About Fort Bend County and Sugar Land, Texas
		Fort Bend County is situated southwest of Houston, Texas and is one of the fastest growing counties in the nation.
		With a population exceeding 350,000 that is expected to double in the next 20 years, Fort Bend is ranked fourth in the nation in employment growth by a Woods and Poole survey.
		With numerous award-winning master-planned communities, an outstanding public school system, and an excellent record of safety, Fort Bend County is the perfect place for families and businesses to call home.
	www.fortbendjobs.com /about_fort_bend.html (127 words)

	Fort Bend County Toll Road Authority
		The Fort Bend County Toll Road Authority (FBCTRA), located in Sugar Land, Texas, is currently managing the successful development and completion of two key county mobility projects, the Fort Bend Parkway and the Fort Bend Westpark Tollway.
		In November 2000, Fort Bend County citizens overwhelmingly approved a $140 million bond issue to support revenue bond financing to pay for the construction of the two toll road projects.
		The four-lane, 6.2 mile, Fort Bend Parkway Toll Road connects the Sam Houston Tollway (Beltway 8) with State Highway 6, easing traffic problems and stimulating economic development in the eastern part of the county.
	www.fbctra.com (199 words)

	Business Wire: Fort Bend County, Texas, Adopts Hart InterCivic Automated Indexing; Automated Process Increases ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Fort Bend County, Texas, recently began automated indexing of property records using Hart InterCivic's Anthem(TM) electronic records management system.
		"Fort Bend was the first county in the nation to use Hart 32, our initial records management system, and we have worked together closely over the years," said David Hart, chairman of Hart InterCivic.
		Fort Bend County adopted Hart Anthem last fall to gain access to automated indexing, online record access and other advanced features, including electronic filing of public records.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2004_Feb_18/ai_113390411 (718 words)

	Houston Community Newspapers Online - Fort Bend/ Southwest Sun
		Fort Bend County's lighting ordinance that regulates lighting in parking lots and business premises threatens to drive a proposed Wal-Mart Supercenter away from the county.
		Fort Bend County Comm-issioners Court last week set the daily rate for jurors and grand jurors who are actually sworn in and empaneled at $40, instead of $30 a day.
		Fort Bend County Commissioners Court last week voted unanimously to purchase the Dew Plantation House for a token $1 and preserve it for public view at a site near the Kitty Hollow Park on Highway 6 in Missouri City.
	www.fortbendsouthwestsun.com (659 words)

	Houston Fort Bend County DWI/DUI Lawyer - Texas Criminal Penalties, Surcharge, License Revocation
		Office conveniently located in Sugar Land, Fort Bend County, minutes from Houston.
		Call 281-242-7070 to speak with a Houston DWI Lawyer in Sugar Land, Fort Bend County, Texas.
		Driving While Intoxicated is a class B misdemeanor with a range of punishment of 3 to 180 days in jail and a fine not to exceed $2,000.00.
	www.fortbend-dwi-lawyer.com /penalties.htm (572 words)

	Fort Bend Archeological Society
		FBAS was created to promote scientific archeological exploration and research, for the preservation and conservation of archeological materials and sites, to interpret and publish data attendant thereto and most importantly, to education it’s membership and the public to the aims of archeology.
		Fort Bend County’s history is rich in both prehistoric and historic archeology.
		FBAS members also volunteer as museum docents with the Fort Bend Museum to promote the education of archeology and the history of Fort Bend County.
	www.geocities.com /fortbendarch (338 words)

	fortbendstar.com - Fort Bend's Online News Source
		The Fort Bend ISD board of trustees met Monday night in what had previously been billed as strictly a workshop session to review local policies concerning school zoning.
		Fort Bend County Fire Marshal Vance Cooper says the county’s fire danger rating has moved from moderate to the high range and citizens should exercise caution in trash burning, extinguishing cigarettes and using fireworks.
		While a good number of the public officials in Fort Bend County were off taking an extended holiday vacation, those who were in town graciously stated what they vowed to change in 2006.
	www.fortbendstar.com (476 words)

	Historic Cannon of Fort Bend County, Texas
		I am instructed by the House of Representatives of the Republic of Texas to take necessary measures to procure the pieces of cannon (brass), which were presented by the ladies of Havana to the Republic.
		Thomas Toby was the financial agent of the Republic of Texas at New Orleans.
		Such an act, coming from such a source and at such a time, should not be lost sight of, and all the circumstances should be preserved as a part of the history of the times.
	www.texasgenealogy.org /fortbend/historic_cannon.htm (605 words)

	Globeinvestor.com: Fort Bend County, Texas, Accepts Electronic Recording of Real Estate Documents Filed Via Landata ...
		The U.S. Bureau of Census reports that Fort Bend County grew 57 percent in population to 354,452 in the decade 1990-2000.
		For 2004, Fort Bend County's population is estimated at 442,620.
		Landata Technologies also has implemented e-recording in Bexar County, Texas, and Washington, D.C., and is working with county clerks and recorders in other jurisdictions across the country.
	www.globeinvestor.com /servlet/WireFeedRedirect?cf=GlobeInvestor/config&vg=BigAdVariableGenerator&date=20050531&archive=prnews&slug=2005_05_31_16_1214_1380747 (904 words)

	The Political Graveyard: Fort Bend County, Tex.
		Assignment of birthplaces, deathplaces, and cemeteries to counties is subject to error.
		Delegate to Texas Consultation of 1835 from District of San Felipe de Austin, 1835;
		President of the Texas Republic, 1838-41; colonel in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; member of Texas state legislature, 1847; U.S. Minister to
	politicalgraveyard.com /geo/TX/FB.html (643 words)

	Charlotte.com - Your Guide to Charlotte
		Currently, the Company's focus is on the further development of the Blue Ridge Dome Field, on gas wells in Jefferson County, Mississippi and Colorado County, Texas, a natural gas exploration program in the Anadarko Basin in Oklahoma, and increasing daily production in its North Dakota well.
		Garwood Field -- Colorado County, Texas In August 2004, the Company, as operator, drilled the Pintail #1, an Upper Wilcox gas test in Colorado County, Texas to a depth of 10,413 feet on a 2,358 gross acre prospect.
		Internal volumetric estimates have indicated targeted probable and possible reserve estimates of over 4.5 billion cubic feet of potential gas reserves in the aggregate for the four shallow gas prospects and 5 million barrels of probable and possible oil reserves from as many as 8 wells for the MS prospect.
	www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=charlotte.story&STORY=/www/story/02-03-2005/0002947076&EDATE=THU+Feb+03+2005,+09:51+AM (2235 words)

	Safety For Dummies - The Conservative Blog of Sugar Land, Texas in Fort Bend County
		Our neighboring county to the northwest is going to be the site of some heavy-duty campaigning over the course of the next two months.
		The county is now governed by a GOP majority on Commissioner's Court, with a Republican County Judge, and 3 out of 4 commissioners registered as Republicans.
		For those not familiar with the situation, in early 2004, Waller County DA Oliver Kitzman issued statements saying that Prairie View A&M college students were ineligible to register to vote in Waller County, claiming that “its not right for any college student to vote where they do not have permanent residency”.
	safety.websoaring.com (5635 words)

	Fort Bend DWI Dui Lawyer - Houston Drunk Driving Attorney Texas
		Fort Bend DWI Dui Lawyer - Houston Drunk Driving Attorney Texas
		The information presented at this website is intended to provide you with a brief overview Texas DWI law.
		Anthony R. Segura provides a creative and thorough defense to persons charged with intoxication offenses throughout the greater Houston area with an emphasis in Harris and Fort Bend Counties.
	www.fortbend-dwi-lawyer.com (520 words)

	Fort Bend Model Railroad Club -- Home Page
		Fort Bend County, Texas, has been a hot bed of railroad activity for more than 150 years.
		These days a suburb of Houston, Fort Bend County is crossed by some of the most active rail lines in the US, including the former-SP "Sunset Route".
		Living in various communities in this area, the members of the Fort Bend Model Railroad club are blessed both with the opportunity to see a lot of full-size trains in action, and to model railroads in N scale indoors as a way to seek relief from those long hot coastal-Texas summer days....
	www.fbmrc.com (403 words)

	Horseshoe Lake, Fort Bend County, Texas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Places like Fort Bend Independent School District Baseball Field are great to visit.
		Brazos River, Texas, Port Sullivan North of FM 485, 107 miles away, class I-II, 1.5 miles long.
		Salado Creek, Texas, FM 2843 to Salado, 157 miles away, class II+, 5 miles long.
	www.goingoutside.com /lake/110/1102925_Horseshoe_Lake_Texas.html (782 words)

	Fort Bend County Records on Microfilm - Texas State Library
		Your request should include the specific reel numbers for the microfilm you wish to use, as well as the name of the county and lending institution.
		These county records are available from the insititution indicated above.
		Note: The titling of Fort Bend County probate records is unreliable.
	www.tsl.state.tx.us /arc/local/fortbend.html (310 words)

	Fort Bend County Bar Association
		The Fort Bend County Bar Association is comprised of attorneys who are members in good standing of the State Bar of Texas.
		For information on the court system of Fort Bend County, please click on this link.
		The Fort Bend County courthouse is located at 500 Jackson Street in the county seat of Richmond, Texas.
	www.fortbendbar.com (266 words)

	Fort Bend Junior Service League, Fort Bend County, Texas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		The Fort Bend Junior Service League is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization, which was formed for social, charitable, and educational causes.
		We will be a leading organization in Fort Bend County that provides such charitable resources.
		The FBJSL is a growing organization of women dedicated to providing volunteer services, leadership and philanthropy to enrich Fort Bend County.
	www.fbjsl.com (123 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online: SUGAR LAND, TX
		Sugar Land is on Oyster Creek and U.S. Highway 90A, east of the Brazos River and seven miles northeast of Richmond in northeastern Fort Bend County.
		The last sugarcane crop in Fort Bend County was harvested in 1928.
		Andrew Jackson Sowell, History of Fort Bend County (Houston: Coyle, 1904; rpt, Richmond, Texas: Fort Bend County Historical Museum, 1974).
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/SS/hfs10.html (679 words)

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