Thompsons, TX Real Estate

Median Income $73,251

Median Age 32.64

Population 59,858

	Median Temperature
	January	HI 61°	LO 41°	July	HI 93°	LO 74°

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	Elementary: Jane Wessendorff Navarro Austin Barbara Jordan Bowie Frost Irma Dru Hutchinson Jackson Jane Long Juan Seguin Meyer Oakland Pecan Grove Smith T L Pink Taylor Ray Travis William Velasquez Williams		Middle: Briscoe High David Crockett George High Lamar High		High: 1621 Place Alternative Learning Center Fort Bend Alternative George Bush Lamar Randolph Foster Terry William B Travis
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Thompsons is a small community of just over 200 residents west of Houston in Fort Bend County. Located on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe railway line and Farm Road 2759, Thompsons is twelve miles southeast of Richmond and approximately 40 miles south east of downtown Houston. The town at one time was called Thompsons' Switch because of its location on the railway line. By 1896 the community had an estimated 300 residents, and Thompsons boasted a cotton gin, general store, and two saloons.The community had a population of 104 in 1900. In 1903, the Thompson school district, surrounded by former plantations had three black schools with 175 pupils and one white school with eight pupils. From the 1920s through the mid-1940s the town reported a population of seventy-five.The Cane Belt Railroad built a second line through the community in 1930, and in 1940 the town included a school, a cotton gin, a store, and two churches. Thompsons incorporated in 1979. Thompsons is zoned to Lamar Consolidated Independent School District schools.

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