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Katy, Harris County.
Katy, Texas
Katy is in Harris County.
Meet AppWT in Person in Katy
Katy has 6 of the 237 Texas meeting rooms AppWT can reserve to meet a client in person.
- 24285 Katy Freeway, Katy, TX 77494: 3.1 miles east of central Katy
- 22503 Katy Freeway, Katy, TX 77450: 4.7 miles east
About Katy, Texas
Katy is a family-oriented city west of Houston that grew from a railroad and rice-farming town into a large suburban community sitting at the tripoint of Harris, Fort Bend, and Waller counties.
History of Katy
- Named after the Missouri-Kansas-Texas ('K-T') Railroad and once a major rice-farming center, home to the first concrete rice driers built in Texas (1944).
Landmarks and Places in Katy
- MKT Railroad Museum. Restored Missouri-Kansas-Texas depot, the railroad the city is named for.
- Katy Mills. Large indoor outlet mall with over 175 stores.
- Historic concrete rice driers. First concrete rice driers built in Texas in 1944, still standing as town landmarks.
- Mary Jo Peckham Park. Harris County park with fishing ponds, walking trails, and a community center pool.
- Typhoon Texas Waterpark. Family waterpark with slides, a wave pool, and a lazy river.
Local reference: en.wikipedia.org
More About Katy
Early in the 1800s the area was called Cane Island, after a creek lined with tall cane that feeds Buffalo Bayou.
The city's name grew out of the railroad's KT stop, used after the MKT line dropped its Missouri waypoint.
Katy is a home-rule city chartered in 1945, and the part incorporated that year is known as Old Towne Katy.
The council has five members plus the mayor, with two members chosen from each of the city's two wards.
Katy High School was established in 1898 and moved to its present site in 1947.
The Katy Garden Club started the first library in private homes, and the first Katy branch of the county library opened in 1940.
The city hosts the yearly Katy Rice Harvest Festival.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Katy Map
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