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Houston is the fourth-most populous city in the United States with 2.3 million residents as of the 2020 census, located in Southeast Texas near Galveston Bay and serving as the county seat of Harris County. Founded on August 30, 1836, at the confluence of Buffalo Bayou and White Oak Bayou by land investors and named after General Sam Houston, the city briefly served as the capital of the Texas Republic before growing into a major regional trading center. Houston's 20th-century growth was driven by the development of its port and railroad industry, the construction of the Houston Ship Channel following Galveston's devastating 1900 hurricane, and the Texas oil boom, which later diversified to include the world's largest concentration of healthcare and research institutions at the Texas Medical Center and NASA's Johnson Space Center. With a diverse economy spanning energy, manufacturing, aeronautics, and transportation, Houston hosts the second-most Fortune 500 headquarters of any U.S. city and operates the nation's top port in international waterborne tonnage. Known as the "Bayou City," "Space City," and the most racially and ethnically diverse major city in the United States, Houston has become a global center for culture, medicine, and research. Spring, Texas is a census-designated place in Harris County within the extraterritorial jurisdiction of Houston and part of the Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land metropolitan area, with a population of 62,559 as of the 2020 census. Originally inhabited by the Orcoquiza Native Americans, the area began developing after 1838 when William Pierpont established a trading post on Spring Creek, followed by German immigrant farmers in the mid-1840s who grew sugar cane, cotton, and vegetables. The International and Great Northern Railroad, completed through Spring in 1871 and expanded in 1901-1903, transformed the town into a major switchyard with 200 rail workers by 1910, though the roundhouse's 1923 relocation to Houston caused significant population decline until suburban expansion resumed in the 1970s. Old Town Spring, located at the intersection of Spring-Cypress and Hardy roads, was revitalized beginning in 1980 and developed into a tourist destination featuring restored historic houses converted into shops. The area is notable for housing the Goodyear airship America from 1969 to 1992, whose massive hangar was a major motorist attraction visible from Interstate 45 until demolition. Sugar Land, the largest city in Fort Bend County, Texas, is located approximately 19 miles southwest of downtown Houston in the Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land metropolitan area, centered around the junction of Texas State Highway 6 and Interstate 69/U.S. Route 59. Originally a 19th-century sugar plantation in the Brazos River floodplain, Sugar Land became a company town following the 1908 consolidation of local plantations into Imperial Sugar Company by the Kempner family and Logan J. Copenhaver, and officially incorporated as a city in 1959. The city has experienced rapid growth since the 1980s, with the 2020 Census reporting a 40% population increase over the preceding decade following the December 2017 annexation of Greatwood and New Territory communities, and employed residents increasing 61% during the same period. Sugar Land is one of the fastest-growing cities in Texas and remains home to Imperial Sugar Company's headquarters, with the Imperial Sugar crown logo prominently featured in the city's seal. The city's roots trace back to Stephen F. Austin's Mexican land grant, with Benjamin Terry naming the town in 1853 and Colonel E. H. Cunningham establishing the sugar-refining plant and platting the town in 1879.