Katy, Texas Katy, Texas Katy is a town/city in the U.S.
The town/city is positioned in Harris, Fort Bend, and Waller counties.
In the mid-1800s Katy was known as "Cane Island", titled for the creek that runs through the area, a branch of Buffalo Bayou.
Katy later became known for rice farming; the first concrete rice driers in the state of Texas were assembled here in 1944 and still stand as landmarks.
In 1945 the town/city of Katy was incorporated as a municipality.
The town/city of Katy is now the anchor for the greater Katy area, defined by the boundaries of the 181 sq mi (470 km2) Katy Independent School District.
Almost 270,000 citizens live in the Katy area, which has won nationwide accolades for expansion and sustainability. In 2009 the Gadberry Group titled Katy as one of "9 from 2009" most notable high-growth areas in the United States. Katy Mills Mall, Texas Several corporations are headquartered in areas encircling Katy.
Igloo Corporation is headquartered west of Katy in unincorporated Waller County. Academy Sports and Outdoors has its corporate offices and product distribution center in unincorporated Harris County. BP's Katy operations include engineering and company support for much of BP's onshore operations in the adjoining United States, as well as its operations in the Gulf of Mexico.
With the economy grade after 2009, retail centers were advanced throughout Katy to accommodate the rapid residentiary growth.
The primary retail expansion is taking place along Katy Fort Bend Road near the east entrance to the Katy Mills shopping mall. In August 2010, H-E-B Food & Drug opened a new UP format store at I-10 and Pin Oak.
The Katy Area Economic Development Council serves as the economic evolution organization for the area.
Founded in 2003, the Katy Area Economic Development Council's (Katy Area EDC) mission is to establish the Katy region as the premier locale for families and businesses through prepared economic expansion and economic development.
Since its inception, the Katy Area EDC has grown to over 210 members, has a budget of $900,000 and has assisted in the creation of over 16,200 jobs and more than $2.5 billion in capital investment.
Katy Area EDC is a full-service private, non-profit, 501 (c) 6 economic evolution corporation.
The town/city of Katy is positioned at the three-border intersection of Harris, Fort Bend, and Waller counties, along Interstate 10, 29 miles (47 km) west of downtown Houston and 22 miles (35 km) east of Sealy.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city of Katy has a total region of 11.3 square miles (29.3 km2), of which 11.2 square miles (29.1 km2) is territory and 0.04 square miles (0.1 km2), or 0.38%, is water. Katy is often further defined as either "old Katy" or "the Katy area". "Old Katy" refers to the town/city of Katy, which was incorporated in 1945 and is positioned near the edge of the greater Katy area.
The "Katy area" includes the town/city of Katy plus large sections of unincorporated territory surrounding the town/city corresponding to the boundaries of the 181 sq mi (470 km2) Katy Independent School District.
Public art universal and the Katy Area Economic Development Council's "Energy Grows Here" branding initiative are large-scale projects launched to help promote, identify and unite the Katy area.
Greater Katy includes new upscale developments and master-planned communities such as Cinco Ranch, Green Trails, Pin Oak Village, Grayson Lakes, Seven Meadows, and the new Pine Mill Ranch, Silver Ranch, Firethorne, Grand Lakes and Cane Island.
The town/city of Houston's extraterritorial jurisdiction (ETJ) stretches well west of Katy.
This means that most of the unincorporated lands in the Katy region may be took in by the town/city of Houston at some time in the future.
The town/city of Katy's ETJ, meanwhile, is limited to parcels of territory west and north of the town/city itself. Katy is a home-rule city, chartered in 1945.
The Katy region lies in three counties.
Residents in unincorporated Harris, Fort Bend and Waller counties are governed by those counties.
The county inhabitants elect representative county commissioners who represent them on the county courts of each county, presided over by the county judge of each county.
Harris County Precinct Three, headed by Steve Radack as of 2008, serves the Harris County portion of Katy. People who live in Katy are zoned to schools in the Katy Independent School District.
The elementary schools in the City of Katy are listed here: The following middle schools serve the City of Katy's residents: The following high schools serve the City of Katy's residents: Katy High School, the earliest high school, is positioned nearest to the center city.
Katy High School was established in 1898, and relocated to its present locale in 1947.
Katy ISD's three alternative education schools (Martha Raines High School, Miller Career and Technology Center, and the Opportunity Awareness Center) are all positioned inside the city.
Aristoi Classical Academy is a charter school in Katy.
Katy is served by the Houston Community College System.
HCC Northwest College operates the Katy Campus in an unincorporated section of Harris County. Katy is served by the Katy Branch of Harris County Public Library (HCPL) at 5414 Franz Road.
The branch is a partnership between HCPL and the City of Katy.
The first Katy branch opened in 1940.
The Cinco Ranch Branch Library is in Cinco Ranch, in unincorporated Fort Bend County, south of Katy. The HCPL Maud Smith Marks Branch Library is in unincorporated Harris County, west of Katy. Harris County operates the Mary Jo Peckham Community Center at 5597 Gardenia Lane, Katy, Texas 77493. The City of Katy Dog Park is positioned at 5414 Franz Road. Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County (METRO) operates the Kingsland Park and Ride (Route 221) east of Katy at 21669 Kingsland Boulevard.
Currently, only these express routes operate to and from downtown Houston amid morning and evening commute hours; METRO does not serve Katy with small-town routes, as most westbound bus lines in Houston terminate at or near Highway 6, a couple of miles before the Katy town/city limits.
Greyhound Bus Lines operates the Katy Station at Millers Exxon. Megabus.com stops at Katy Mills en route between Austin, San Antonio and Houston.
This serves as a park-and-ride locale for riders from the Katy and Greater Houston area.
Privately owned airports for fixed-wing airplane for enhance use positioned near Katy include: Bill Callegari, businessman, engineer, and a Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives from Katy from 2001 to 2015 Mike Schofield, Republican state representative from District 132 in Katy, effective 2015 a b c "Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Katy city, Texas".
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