Stafford
Stafford
Stafford is a city found in the Fort Bend County in the small area in Harris County, Texas, United State. Along the Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown Municipal Area. As of the Millennium Statistical Studies the area population was 15, 681. The area had only the municipal school district which is Stafford Municipal School District in all of Texas. Stafford is provided by the Houston Community College System and the campus is located along the city. The city doesn’t have a municipal property tax since 1995 and the sales tax is 0.5 % less than all the encompassing cities. Although the city is famous as a bedroom community of the greater Houston area it is approximately four times as more people work in Stafford every weekdays, which is absolutely the biggest amount of commercial activity that helped the city in financial aspects. Some of the corporations even small or big containing the United Parcel Services, Texas Instruments, and Tyco is preserving their critical operations in Stafford. As of last year the ambassador of Stafford is Leonard Scarcella who is firstly voted in 1969 and a resident in the city for a longest time. William Stafford develops a plantation with a cane mill and horse-powered cotton bridge in 1830. During the Texas Revolution on April 15, 1836 the forces of Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana block the Stafford’s plantation and command to fire the plantation. Stafford reconstructed the plantation and live there up to his death in 1840. An agreement named Stafford Point develops itself in the plantation, and become a townsite in August 1853 during the Buffalo Bayou, Brazos and Colorado Railway starts blocking the Stafford Point.