Katy, Texas

Katy is a city located in the U.S. state of Texas within the Houston–Sugar Land–Baytown Metropolitan Area. Katy is located partially in the counties of Fort Bend, Waller, and Harris. As of the 2000 U.S. Census, the city had a total population of 11,775.

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Named for the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad (commonly referred to at the "Katy Railroad", now a part of Union Pacific) that ran through it in the 19th century, the Houston suburb's prime attraction is the Katy Mills Mall. A secondary attraction is an unusual outdoor museum of Chinese culture and history called the Forbidden Gardens.

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Actresses Ren?e Zellweger and Renee O'Connor were born in Katy. Country music performer Clint Black, Trading Spaces designer Frank Bielec, and American Idol contestant Kimberly Caldwell are from there as well.

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U.S. state: A U.S. state is any one of the fifty states (four of which officially favor the term commonwealth) which, together with the District of Columbia and Palmyra Atoll (an uninhabited incorporated unorganized territory), form the United States of America. The separate state governments and the U.S. feder...

Texas: Texas is a state located in the United States of America. The 28th U.S. state, Texas joined the United States in 1845. Its postal abbreviation is TX....

Fort Bend: Fort Bend was a blockhouse built in a large bend of the Brazos River in what is now Fort Bend County, Texas, to provide protection against Indian raids. It was erected in November 1822 by several members of Stephen F. Austin's Old Three Hundred, including William W. Little and Joseph Polley, and is ...

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