League City is a city in the U.S. state of Texas, in Galveston County, within the Greater Houston metropolitan area. As of the 2020 census, the city had a population of 112,129.

The city of League City has a small portion north of Clear Creek within Harris County zoned for residential and trailer uses. It is house to several waterside resorts, such as South Shore Harbor Resort and Conference Center and Waterford Harbor and Yacht Club Marina, popular behind residents of welcoming Houston. Between 2000 and 2005, League City surpassed Galveston as Galveston County’s largest city.

League City was established at the former site of a Karankawa Indian village. Three families, the Butlers, the Cowarts, and the Perkinses, are considered to be founding families of the city. The Winfield Family has as a consequence recently been established as a founding family by the City Government. The Cowart family settled upon a creek now called Cowart’s Creek after them (now often called “Coward’s Creek”). The Perkins family built upon a creek notably lined next magnolia trees and named it Magnolia Bayou. The Butler family arranged inland. The Winfield Family purchased home in League City from the great nephew of Stephen F. Austin and moved there, to a place close what is now Hobbs Road.

The first resident of the town proper, George W. Butler, arrived from Louisiana in 1854 and decided at the junction of Clear Creek and Chigger Bayou. The area was known as Butler’s Ranch or Clear Creek until J. C. League acquired the estate from a man named Muldoon upon his entering the priesthood. League laid out his townsite along the Galveston, Houston, and Henderson Railroad, already established in the area. This began a little feud higher than the name, as Butler was the postmaster. The publicize was distorted several times, alternating amongst Clear Creek and the additional League City. In the end, League City was chosen.