Friendswood, situated in the northwestern corner of Galveston County, has the distinction of being the only permanent town in Texas that started as a Quaker colony.

They were looking for a "promised land" to start a colony of the people who belonged to the religious denomination called Friends or Quakers.

Through the 1940s, Friendswood was predominately a small, remote, farming Quaker community with less than 500 citizens.

After 1950, it became increasingly a suburban bedroom community, as Houstonians discovered the idyllic country setting the farmlands were converted to subdivision home-sites.

[25] The Baybrook Mall is physically located in the City of Houston,[26] but has a Friendswood mailing address.

[28] The CCISD portion is within the Board of Trustees District 4,[29] represented by Stuart J. Stromeyer as of 2008.

[32] Most residents of CCISD Friendswood are zoned to Clear Brook High School in unincorporated Harris County,[33] while some residents of CCISD Friendswood are zoned to Clear Springs High School in League City.

[38] The Friendswood ISD area is assigned to College of the Mainland, while the portion of Clear Creek ISD in Harris County (and therefore the Harris County part of Friendswood) is assigned to San Jacinto College.

[42] The hackers also claimed Wieners' e-mail account contained an anti-Muslim chain e-mail entitled “1,400 years of inbreeding amongst Muslims.”[41] The climate in this area is characterized by hot, humid summers and generally mild to cool winters.

After numerous major storms swept through southeastern Texas, where Friendswood is located, residents began building houses above ground to avoid flooding.

Major flooding is caused by the rise of Clear Creek, a body of water near the suburbs of Polly Ranch.