Sargent is a small unincorporated community located in the eastern corner of Matagorda County, Texas, United States.

Sargent is a fishing, boating, and water sports community with a variable population, as most of its inhabitants are weekend commuters from larger cities such as Houston, Austin, and San Antonio.

The Sargent area, with its proximity to the Gulf of Mexico, East Matagorda Bay, the Intracoastal Waterway, and Caney Creek, is home base to many commercial and sport fisherman and shrimpers.

[4] Sargent Beach, where multiple rows of beach houses in the 1960s eventually succumbed to continual coastal erosion, has received more attention to preserve what remains of this relatively narrow island bordered by the Gulf of Mexico, the Intracoastal Waterway, Mitchell's Cut into East Matagorda Bay, and the San Bernard River far to the east.

[1] Sargent and his family relocated to Texas from England in 1834, and established a permanent residence in Matagorda County in 1838, quickly becoming a major land owner in the area.

A common problem is a sand bar that runs across the cut about 100 yards out and affects the bigger shrimp boats on a low tide.

The most notable effort to protect Sargent Beach was obtaining funding for and completing development of a granite breakwater revetment designed and installed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in the early 1990s.

This substructure is designed to help prevent coastal erosion and protect inland homes from storm surge in the event of a tropical cyclone making landfall near the area.

This funding cut resulted in the pier coming in short at approximately 180 feet, barely reaching the water at low tide,[9] causing it to be affectionately dubbed by locals "Little Stubby."