Cinco Ranch is a census-designated place and master-planned community located in the extraterritorial jurisdiction of the city of Houston within Fort Bend and Harris counties in the U.S. state of Texas. The population was 16,899 at the 2020 census. It lies approximately 25 miles (40 km) west of the Harris County chair of Houston and 10 miles (16 km) north of the Fort Bend County seat of Richmond. Cinco Ranch is considered to be allocation of the Greater Katy Place and is on the subject of 10 miles southeast of the city of Katy.

The Cinco Ranch community goes urge on to previously Texas became a republic. In the 1820s, pioneer Moses Austin was approved by the Spanish organization the authority to say yes 300 families in the valleys of the Brazos and Colorado rivers. He died back he was skillful to reach this, but his son Stephen F. Austin was skillful to complete his father’s wishes, even under the newly traditional Mexican government. One of the men who moved into these 300 slots of land (each one greater than 4,000 acres/16 km) was Randolph Foster, whose estate spread across Fort Bend and Waller counties and on which wild horses, deer, Native Americans and buffalo lived.

Foster’s daughter married Thomas Blakeley, cattleman and well ahead sheriff of Fort Bend County. Their son, Bassett Blakeley, took after his dad and grandfather and soon grew into a cowboy and cattleman. Bassett Blakeley owned 15,000 acres (61 km) of house and 14,000 head of Brahman cattle, along considering his grandfather’s land. The cowhands of his Blakeley Ranch annually drove 10,000 head of cattle to the railheads in Kansas.

In 1937, Blakeley sold the dynamic ranch to William Wheless, who convinced four of his friends, J.S. Abercrombie, W.B. Pryon, H.G. Nelms and L.M. Josey—all, like him, wealthy from oil—to become his followers at the ranch. In a tribute to its Spanish roots perhaps, they called it Cinco Ranch (cinco means “five” in Spanish). Only the Wheless relatives lived on the ranch, but everything of the families visited upon many holidays and weekends, making use of a huge clubhouse conclusive with two bedroom wings. The ranch was not merely enthusiastic in cattle—it along with had several acres of rice—for years, the main output of Katy, Texas—and peanut production.