Katy
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city in Harris, Waller, and Fort Bend counties in Texas, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Texas
- Counties
- Harris , Fort Bend , Waller
- Mayor
- William H. Thiele
- Mayor pro tem
- Chris Harris
- Councilmembers
- Janet Corte, Dan Smith, Rory A. Robertson, Gina Hicks
- Total
- 15.312 sq mi (39.658 km )
- Land
- 15.294 sq mi (39.610 km )
- Water
- 0.018 sq mi (0.047 km )
- Elevation
- 138 ft (42 m)
- Estimate 2023
- 26,360
- Density
- 1,755.7/sq mi (677.89/km )
- Demonym
- Katyite
- Time zone
- UTC–6 ( Central (CST) )
- Summer dst
- UTC–5 (CDT)
- Zip codes
- 77449, 77450, 77491, 77492, 77493, 77494
- Area codes
- 713, 281, 832, 346, 621
- Fips code
- 48-38476
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Official name
- Katy
- Population
- 21894
- Area
- 29.261295
- Elevation
- 43
- Official website
- cityofkaty.com
- Image
- Katysign.JPG
- Households
- 6495
- Dialing code
- 281
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- postal code
- 77494
- Commons category
- Katy, Texas
- inception
- 1945-00-00
- water as percent of area
- 0.3822
- per capita income
- 35556
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Katy is a city in the U.S. state of Texas, approximately centered at the tripoint of Harris, Fort Bend, and Waller counties. The population was 21,894 at the 2020 census. It is the center of the urban Greater Katy area, itself forming the western part of the Greater Houston metropolitan area.
First formally settled in the mid-1890s, Katy was a railroad town along the Missouri–Kansas–Texas (MKT) Railroad which ran parallel to U.S. Route 90 (today Interstate 10) into downtown Houston. Katy obtained its name when the MKT Railroad dropped its Missouri waypoint and the junction became known as the "KT stop". The fertile floodplain of Buffalo Bayou, which has its source near Katy, and its tributaries made the city and other communities in the surrounding prairie an attractive location for rice farming. Beginning in the 1960s, the rapid growth of Houston moved westward along the new Interstate 10 corridor, bringing Katy into its environs.