Cleveland is a city in the U.S. state of Texas, within Houston–The Woodlands–Sugar Land metropolitan area and Liberty County. The population was 7,471 at the 2020 census.

In 1854, a church and convent were built by Father Peter La Cour near the town’s gift site. The town began forming in 1878 bearing in mind Charles Lander Cleveland, a local judge, donated 63.6 acres (257,000 m) of home to the Houston East & West Texas Railway (now part of the Union Pacific Railroad) for use as a stop, requesting that the town be named for him. Since 1900 Cleveland has served as the junction of this line and the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe (now the BNSF Railway). The town was not incorporated until 1935.

The forests concerning Cleveland, including Sam Houston National Forest, which is located just to its north, are a resort for many inhabitants of the Houston area, who attain camp, hike, hunt, and fish. Cleveland has several historic sites and public recreational facilities, including two parks. The Austin Memorial Library Center offers a wide range of facilities to the community, and the Texan Theater and the annual livestock perform and rodeo, Dairy Days, provide entertainment. Commercially, Cleveland has been a shipping lessening for timber, lumber, and lumber byproducts past the 1870s. A large medical community, oil, gas, cattle, farm products, and sand and gravel are important to the town’s economy. The general trend toward urbanization of the entire Place is reflected by the fact that in 1965 Liberty County was supplementary to the Houston Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population of Cleveland grew from 1,200 in 1930 to 7,605 according to the census of 2000.

In 2011, 19 youngster men and youth from Cleveland were arrested for gang rapes of an 11-year-old girl. Ultimately, 21 persons were found or pled guilty and received sentences ranging from dynamism in prison to probation.