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.

Hurricane Katrina Evacuees

The Katy region absorbed several thousand evacuees in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. No attempt has been made to get an accurate count of how many evacuees from Louisiana and Mississippi are in the region, however the Katy Independent School District reported on September 7, 2005 that they had received 1,161 new students in the district as a result of the hurricane. Mayor Doyle Callender in a Houston Chronicle interview on September 14, 2005 estimated there are 3,000 to 4,000 evacuees in Katy regional shelters while 500 of those are in shelters within the Katy city limits. There are likely thousands more in permanent housing units throughout the Katy region. One of the primary reasons why Katy absorbed such a large number of evacuees is its location on Interstate 10, the major east-west artery through the region and direct feeder route of evacuees from New Orleans and the Gulf Coast region of Mississippi. Nobody in the mandatory evacuations in the aftermath of the storm was evacuated to the Katy region; everyone who is in the area reached the city and region on their own.

Related Topics:
Hurricane Katrina - Interstate 10

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