Īccording to the United States Census Bureau, Pearland has a total area of 47.5 square miles (122.9 km 2), of which 47.0 square miles (121.8 km 2) is land and 0.46 square miles (1.2 km 2), or 0.94%, is water. Downtown Houston is approximately 16 miles (26 km) to the north of the city. The city is bordered by Houston and Brookside Village to the north, by Manvel to the south, Almeda Rd/ FM 521 to the west and by Friendswood to the east. Portions of the city extend north into Harris County, and a smaller portion extends west into Fort Bend County. Pearland's main east-west corridor is Farm to Market Road 518/Broadway. West Pearland has a lot of suburban development, while East Pearland has older houses and, according to Maggie Galehouse of the Houston Chronicle, Pearland's "rural roots still show" in the east side. The historic town center of Pearland is at the intersection of Texas State Highway 35/Main and Broadway. In the 1990s, home developers began buying large tracts of land, changing the geography of the city.
By 1990, the city limits had extended into Harris County. įrom the 1970s, the town has grown to its present-day population. In the 1930s and 1940s, Pearland had many dance halls and beer joints that entertained people from the Hastings and Manvel oil fields. Oil was discovered nearby in 1934, which led to the development of the Hastings Oilfield, though it did not spur much growth, as the population fluctuated between 150 and 350. In 1914, with agriculture rebounding and the end of desertification, Pearland had a population of 400, but a devastating freeze in 1918 was another setback to the local farming enterprises. The Galveston hurricane of 1900 and the Galveston hurricane of 1915 destroyed most of the city's fruit trees and slowed growth for a considerable period of time, and caused a period of desertification in the area. The first subdivision was called "Suburban Gardens". Pearland was promoted by developers Allison & Richey Land Company as an "agricultural Eden". Residents harvested fruit and vegetables such as cantaloupes, corn, figs, pears and watermelons. In the 1800s, Pearland consisted of prairie. Zychlinski saw the pear trees and decided that "Pearland" would make a good name for the community. At the time Pearland had many fruits harvested by residents. On September 24, 1894, the plat of "Pear-Land" was filed with the Brazoria County courthouse by Witold von Zychlinski, a man of Polish nobility. When a post office was established in 1893, the community was named "Mark Belt". Pearland had its beginnings near a siding switch on the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway in 1882. Per the American Community Survey of 2019 the population had risen to an estimated 131,448. Pearland is the third-largest city in the Greater Houston area, and from 2000 to 2010, ranked as the fastest-growing city in Greater Houston and the second-fastest-growing city in Texas. during that time period, compared to other cities with a population of 10,000 or greater in 2000. Pearland's population growth rate from 2000 to 2010 was 142 percent, which ranked Pearland as the 15th-fastest-growing city in the U.S. census, the city's population was 125,828, up from a population of 91,252 at the 2010 census.
The city of Pearland is a principal city within the Houston–The Woodlands–Sugar Land metropolitan statistical area. state of Texas, within Brazoria County, with portions extending into Fort Bend and Harris counties.
Pearland ( / ˈ p ɛər l æ n d/ PEAR-land) is a city in the U.S.
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