Photos: Fort Bend County ranch owned by late heart surgeon Denton Cooley for sale


A Houston-area ranch owned by the estate of Dr. Denton Cooley, a renowned heart surgeon who died in 2016, is for sale with an asking price of $7.3 million.

Cool Acres spans 406 acres and is about 10 minutes south of Simonton in Fort Bend County, according to the listing page on Republic Ranches’ website. The property sits 115 feet above the Brazos River, which runs along nearly a mile of the ranch, so Cool Acres' houses have never flooded, per the listing. About 10 percent of the property is…

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