Missouri City, Texas

Missouri City, Texas Official seal of Missouri City, Texas Location in Fort Bend and Harris counties in the state of Texas Location in Fort Bend and Harris counties in the state of Texas City Sign for Missouri City Missouri City Recreation and Tennis Center Completed in 2012, the Missouri City Recreation & Tennis Center features 13 tennis courts, 4 batting cages, a weight room and a full-size gymnasium.

Quail Valley, a golf course improve in Missouri City Riverstone, an upscale master-planned improve in Missouri City's extraterritorial jurisdiction Missouri City is a town/city in the U.S.

The town/city is mostly in Fort Bend County, with a small portion in Harris County.

The region in which Missouri City is now positioned holds a momentous part in the history of Texas that dates back to its early days as part of the United States.

Missouri City became the barns shipping point for these two resources.

After a pipeline had been constructed the following year, Missouri City became the first town in Fort Bend County to make use of natural gas.

With the benefit of a barns , Missouri City had already been home to commuters who, by train, traveled to adjoining suburbs like Stafford's Point and Sugar Land to work.

With the increase of automobiles and the enhancement of roads and highways in the early part of the 20th century, the developing improve of Missouri City gradually thriving a richness of newcomers.

After fear and rumor spread of possible annexation of the unincorporated town by Houston, town leaders scrambled to piece together a town/city government.

Missouri City has since seen tremendous economic growth, moving eastward, southward, and then westward.

The town/city was first made over by Fondren Park (in Harris County), near US 90 - A, in the early 1960s, followed by Quail Valley, along Cartwright Road between Texas Parkway and Murphy Road, in the late 1960s.

Unlike neighboring Houston, Missouri City has been a zoned town/city since 1981.

Many of them made the subdivisions of Missouri City home.

In 2000, Missouri City was titled a model town/city for middle-class African Americans by Black Entertainment Television.

The Missouri City area's recent upscale, master-planned residentiary developments include Lake Olympia, south of Quail Valley, and portions of Riverstone, south of State Highway 6.

Map of Missouri City Missouri City is positioned in easterly Fort Bend County at 29 34 58 N 95 32 22 W (29.582799, -95.539423). A portion of the town/city extends north into Harris County.

Missouri City is bordered by the town/city of Houston to the north and east, Stafford to the northwest, Sugar Land to the west, and Arcola to the southeast, as well as unincorporated communities such as Fifth Street to the north, Fresno to the east, and Sienna Plantation to the south.

According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, Missouri City has a total region of 29.8 square miles (77.2 km2), of which 28.4 square miles (73.6 km2) is territory and 1.4 square miles (3.6 km2), or 4.65%, is water. The Missouri City Parks and Recreation Department is a Texas Gold Medal Award-winning department that maintains and operates a wide range of park and natural areas, trails, athletic complexes and other facilities.

The Missouri City Recreation and Tennis Center is the heart of the recreation division and homes the majority of the city's recreation and public classes.

Missouri City's most historical park, Freedom Tree Park, is titled after the Freedom Tree, which sits along Misty Hollow Drive between Glenn Lakes and Lake Olympia boulevards, at the former Palmer Plantation site.

Missouri City is crossed by US 90 - A, Beltway 8 (Sam Houston Tollway), Fort Bend Toll Road, State Highway 6, FM 1092 (Murphy Road), FM 2234 (Texas Parkway), and FM 3345 (Cartwright Road).

Although Missouri City does not have enhance transit inside the town/city limits itself, it is part of the service region of METRO.

METRO operates the Missouri City Park and Ride positioned on Beltway 8 and Fondren Road, which is the end of express bus Route 163 Fondren to Sharpstown and Downtown Houston, and Route 170 Missouri City Express to the Texas Medical Center (terminating at the Texas Medical Center Transit Center METRORail station there).

Missouri City is home to much of the Houston area's "antennae farm" for radio and tv outlets.

American Towers Tower Missouri City Richland Towers Tower Missouri City Blue Ridge Tower Missouri City On October 1, 2010, the City of Missouri City's anti-smoking law, which bans smoking in most enhance places, went into effect. The United States Postal Service operates the Missouri City Post Office and the Missouri City Post Office Annex. The Fort Bend County portion of Missouri City is served by Fort Bend Independent School District, while the Harris County portion is served by Houston Independent School District.

FBISD operates the following schools inside the Missouri City limits: Missouri City Middle School In addition to these schools, a small portion of Missouri City is also served by Dulles Middle School, First Colony Middle School, Clements High School and Dulles High School, all in Sugar Land.

Some areas of Missouri City are served by other schools.

Prior to 1959 Missouri City High School, which consolidated into Dulles that year, served the city. The Harris County portion of Missouri City is zoned to HISD schools positioned in the town/city limits of Houston: The entire town/city is served by the Houston Community College System.

Missouri City is served by the Missouri City Branch of the Fort Bend County Libraries system.

The library, athwart the street from the City Hall complex and the Missouri City Civic Center, opened in June 1992.

Paul Begala, political commentator, born in New Jersey but raised in Missouri City James Loney, New York Mets first baseman, interval up in Missouri City and attended Elkins High School Ron Reynolds, Texas state representative from Missouri City since 2014 Z-Ro, Houston rap artist, a native of Missouri City; sometimes refers to it as "MO City" or "Misery City".

Z-Ro, sometimes refers to himself as the "MO City Don", and since mid 2014 has changed his official stage name to "MO City Don".

The nickname "MO City" derives from the postal abbreviation for Missouri (MO).

Numerous current and former experienced athletes live in Missouri City or in neighboring Sienna Plantation, including former Houston Texan and Atlanta Falcon Dunta Robinson, former Texans quarterback David Carr, former Houston Oilers Sean Jones, Alonzo Highsmith, and Webster Slaughter, Houston Texans cornerback Aaron Glenn, and Green Bay Packers running back Knile Davis.

"Missouri City (city) Quick - Facts from the US Enumeration Bureau".

"Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Missouri City city, Texas".

Missouri City, TX 77459" "Missouri City smoking ban to soon take effect." "Post Office Location - MISSOURI CITY ANNEX." "Missouri City Branch Library." City of Missouri City official website Missouri City, Texas from the Handbook of Texas Online Municipalities and communities of Fort Bend County, Texas, United States

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