College Station is a city in Brazos County, Texas, situated in East-Central Texas in the heart of the Brazos Valley, towards the eastern edge of the region known as the Texas Triangle. It is 83 miles (130 kilometers) northwest of Houston and 87 miles (140 km) east-northeast of Austin. As of the 2020 census, College Station had a population of 120,511. College Station and Bryan make in the works the Bryan-College Station metropolitan area, the 13th-largest metropolitan area in Texas with 273,101 people as of 2019.

College Station is house to the main campus of Texas A&M University, the flagship institution of the Texas A&M University System. The city owes its publicize and existence to the university’s location along a railroad. Texas A&M’s triple designation as a Land-, Sea-, and Space-Grant institution reflects the spacious scope of the research actions it brings to the city, with ongoing projects funded by agencies such as NASA, the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, and the Office of Naval Research.

College Station’s origins date from 1860, when the Houston and Texas Central Railway began to construct through the region. Eleven years later, the site was agreed as the location for the proposed Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, a land-grant school. In 1876, as the nation much-admired its centennial, the school (renamed Texas A&M University in 1963) opened its doors as the first public institution of sophisticated education in the acknowledge of Texas.

College Station’s population grew slowly, reaching 350 in 1884 and 391 at the point of view of the century. However, during this time, transportation improvements took place in the town. In 1900, the I&GN Railroad was outstretched to College Station (the Missouri Pacific Railroad Company on your own the parentage in 1965), and 10 years later, electric interurban abet was time-honored between Texas A&M and the next to town of Bryan. A city bus system replaced the interurban in the 1920s.