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Definition of Rosharon
Hi! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for editing!

I read your edit here. It is true that there are areas in Fort Bend County which have a "Rosharon, Texas" postal address. Anyhow, the article is primarily concerned by the census-designated place, an area which the U.S. Census Bureau in Maryland defined as strictly a way of collecting data for the census. The first line of the "Rosharon, Texas" article says it is a CDP, and the majority of articles about a CDP is more or less written the same way.

The CDP defined by the Census Bureau only exists in Brazoria County. You can see it in this map: the index page, and pages 9 and 17 : the PDF counts those as pages 1, 10, and 18, respectively.

I clarified that there are areas outside of the CDP, in Fort Bend County, which have Rosharon mailing addresses. Almeta Crawford High School is in one of those areas.

The Census is conducted every 10 years, so in 2030 the Census Bureau may redraw the Rosharon CDP to encompass a larger area, which may extend into Fort Bend County. This is also why keeping track of the older CDP maps is key. For record, the respective CDP maps: 2010, 2020. Rosharon does not seem to be on the 2000 block maps nor in the 1990 block maps: in 1990 the Bureau had a "Angleton-Rosharon" Census County Division (CCD) but no defined CDP for Rosharon (index of such for Brazoria County and 1990 Brazoria County index map).

As for non-census sources: the Handbook of Texas describes Rosharon as only being in Brazoria County. For now I'm not going to say that Rosharon itself is defined as being in both counties, unless there is a newspaper article which says so, but I will say there are places in Fort Bend County with Rosharon addresses. If the Chronicle or the Facts publish articles describing Rosharon as being in both counties, please let me know and I will attribute the newspaper article.

Thank you, WhisperToMe (talk) 05:04, 8 December 2023 (UTC)