Clute is a city in Brazoria County, Texas, United States, within the Houston metropolitan area.

The city gained some fame with the discovery of a fossilized mammoth named Asiel.

Clute's history began at the junction of the old Calvit and Eagle Island Plantations.

[5] Alexander Calvit, one of Stephen F. Austin's Old Three Hundred, obtained title to the land in 1824.

[5] Eagle Island Plantation belonged to Jared Groce, the richest man in Austin's Colony.

The Eagle Island Plantation of William H. Wharton occupied the site of present Restwood Memorial Park.

[6] In the early 1940s, Clute began to prosper with the advent of Dow Chemical and several large construction companies moving into Southern Brazoria County.

[8] In November 2003, a pair of mammoth tusks were found buried in a sand pit near Brazoswood High School by a backhoe operator.

[9] They are believed to be remains of the first-dated mammoth discovered on the Texas Gulf Coast.

In addition, fossil logs and remains of bison, horse, deer and turtle are present, providing a glimpse of a unique Ice Age environment buried 35 feet below the surface, said Robson Bonnichsen, director of the Center for the Study of the First Americans.

As of the 2020 United States census, there were 10,604 people, 4,453 households, and 2,854 families residing in the city.