what county is richmond tx in
Richmond is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the seat of Fort Bend County, within HoustonâThe WoodlandsâSugar Land metropolitan area.As of the 2010 U.S. Census, the city population was 11,679. Richmond city boundaries are joined on one hand with Sugar Land and with the city of Rosenberg on the other hand.n August 16, 1889, the town was the site of the Battle of Richmond, an armed fight culminating the Jaybird-Woodpecker War, a violent feud over post-Reconstruction political control of Fort Bend County.