Sealy, Texas

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Sealy is a city located at the intersection of Interstate Highway 10 and State Highway 36, 50 miles west of Houston in Austin County, Texas, and is part of the Houston–The Woodlands–Sugar Land metropolitan area. The population was 6,019 at the 2010 US Census.

In 1875 the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railroad purchased three leagues of land from the San Felipe de Austin Town Corporation and began surveying a townsite south of Bullinger's Creek along the projected line of its new Galveston-Brenham spur, and the settlement became a shipping center for the produce of local farmers and ranchers. In 1880 a post office was established in the community, which was named in honor of George Sealy, an executive of the railroad.

The Sealy Corporation, one of the world's major manufacturers of mattresses, was founded in Sealy in 1881.

Sealy is served by schools in the Sealy Independent School District.