Missouri City is a city in the U.S. state of Texas, within the Houston–The Woodlands–Sugar Land metropolitan area. The city is mostly in Fort Bend County, with a small portion in Harris County. As of the 2020 census, the city had a population of 74,259, up from 67,358 in 2010. The population was estimated at 75,457 in 2019.

The area in which Missouri City is now located holds a significant ration in the archives of Texas that dates back up to its yet to be days as allowance of the United States. In August 1853, the Buffalo Bayou, Brazos and Colorado Railway (BBB&C), began practicing its first 20 miles (32 km) of rail parentage that stretched from Harrisburg (now Houston) to Stafford’s Point (now Stafford). It was the first railroad to start operating in Texas, and the first pleasing gauge railroad west of the Mississippi River.

The railway continued its intensification westward until, in 1883, it linked when its eastward counterpart, completing the Sunset Route from Los Angeles to New Orleans. Today, the route of the BBB&C (now owned by the Union Pacific Railroad) is nevertheless an important and heavily operated railroad line.

In 1890, two real estate investors from Houston (R.M. Cash and L.E. Luckle) purchased 4 sq mi (10 km) of house directly upon the route of the BBB&C, only a mile and a half from its first End at Stafford’s Point. They advertised the property as “a land of affable sunshine and perpetual summer” in St. Louis, Missouri, and its surrounding areas. Three years later, W.R. McElroy purchased 80 acres (32 ha) in the thesame vicinity, and in an effort to publicize the area jointly once Cash and Luckle in St. Louis, he named it “Missouri City”. Its first settlers were, however, from Arlington, Texas, between Dallas and Fort Worth.^{[citation needed]}