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Richmond is a suburb of Houston and the county seat of Fort Bend County, Texas, United States. [5] The city is located within the Houston–The Woodlands–Sugar Land metropolitan area. As of the 2020 U.S. census , the city population was 11,627.
Several United States post offices are individually notable and have operated under the authority of the United States Post Office Department (1792–1971) or the United States Postal Service (since 1971).
Post office buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Texas (14 P) Pages in category "Post office buildings in Texas" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total.
Texas's 22nd congressional district of the United States House of Representatives covers a largely suburban southwestern portion of the Greater Houston metropolitan area. The district includes most of Fort Bend County, including most of the cities of Sugar Land, Rosenberg, Needville and the county seat of Richmond as well as the county's share of the largely unincorporated Greater Katy area ...
Hence, the community was named Crabb or Crabb Switch. In 1894, the settlement was served by a post office. By 1896, 400 people were living in the community, which had a cotton gin, two doctors, two orchards, and a Methodist church. The post office was closed in 1900. The population shrank in size until it fell to 100 in 1933.
The property on which today's community stands was granted to Henry Jones (1789-1861) in Stephen F. Austin's Texas colony. Freeman Irby Booth, a wealthy landowner who owned a cotton gin, general store, lumberyard, and syrup mill, founded the settlement in the 1890s. The community received a post office in 1894.
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, introduced a bill to designate the post office on Bastrop's Main Street as “Sergeant Major Billy D. Waugh Post Office.”
Pages in category "Post office buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Texas" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .