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We would like to provide the residents of  Brookshire  a basic history overview.


Welcome to the Brookshire Home page. The Brookshire Home page provides as much information as possible on Brookshire. Knowing Brookshire’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Brookshire’s Home page, you will also find Brookshire’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

Brookshire has a population of 5601. 57.1% of Brookshire’s inhabitants are Male, and 42.9 are female. 33.2% of Brookshire is married and 56.3% own their own home. Household median income in Brookshire is $42,276, and the individual median income is $22,077. Brookshire’s Ethnic is the following: Hispanic(61.5%), Other(29.1%), White(27.3%), Black(26.9%), Multiple(11.9%), Native(4.1%), Asian(0.7%).


Brookshire is located at 29°47′1″N 95°57′16″W (29.783737, –95.954325)., 34 miles west of downtown Houston along Interstate 10, 7 miles west of Katy. It is part of the Interstate 10 Energy Corridor, part of the west Houston and Katy market, and a member of West I-10 Chamber of Commerce. The population was 4,702 as of the 2010 census, with a total area of 3.5 square miles (9.1 km2). The city is named for Nathan Brookshire, a large land owner in the vicinity.


He was a captain in the Texian Army and participated in the storming and capture of Bexar in 1835. In 1893, John Kellner donated land and filed a plat for the Town of Kellner out of the William Cooper Survey, one of the oldest headrights in the state. Also in 1893, John Brookshire and O. C. Drew filed their plat for the Town of Brookshire out of the H.


H. Pennington Survey. On May 24, 1946, the City of Brookshire was incorporated, comprising both the Kellner and the Brookshire/Drew plats.


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