Missouri City, Texas

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Missouri City is a city located mostly in Fort Bend County, Texas (with a small portion within Harris County), and is a part of the Houston–The Woodlands–Sugar Land metropolitan area. As of the 2010 U.S. Census, the city had a total population of 67,358.

In 1890, two real estate investors from Houston, R.M. Cash and L.E. Luckle, purchased four square miles of land directly on the route of the BBB&C Railroad, only a mile and a half from its first stop at Stafford's Point (now the city of Stafford). They advertised the property as "a land of genial sunshine and eternal summer" in St. Louis, Missouri and its surrounding areas. Three years later, W.R. McElroy purchased 80 acres in the same vicinity, and in an effort to promote the area jointly with Cash and Luckle in St. Louis, named it "Missouri City".

Major thoroughfares in Missouri City include U.S. Highway 90A, Beltway 8 (the Sam Houston Tollway), the Fort Bend Toll Road, State Highway 6, Farm-To-Market Road 1092 (Murphy Road), Farm-To-Market Road 2234 (Texas Parkway), and Farm-To-Market Road 3345 (Cartwright Road).

Missouri City is home to the Houston area's "Antenna Farm" , a collection of masts for radio and television station antennas.

Students who live in the Fort Bend County portion of the city are served by the Fort Bend Independent School District, while those in the Harris County portion attend classes in the Houston Independent School District.