McKinney, tx

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Motto: 'Unique by Nature'

LOCATION

County: Collin

Metro: Dallas-Fortworth-Arlington Metropolitan Area

State: Texas

Country: United States of America

Coordinates: 33°11'50"N/96°38'23"W (33.19722°N/96.63972°W)

GOVERNMENT

Incorporated: 1848

• Type: City Council-Manager (7 members)

• Mayor: George Fuller

City Council Members

- District I: La'Shadion Shemwell

- District II: Rainey Rogers

- District III: Scott Elliott

- District IV: Rick Franklin

At-large: Charlie Philips

At-large: Frederick Frazier

City Hall: 222 N. Tennessee, McKinney TX 75069

GEOGRAPHY

Water Area: 0.74mi² (1.91km²)

Land Area: 66.96mi² (173.43km²)

Total Area: 66.70mi² (175.35km²)

Elevation: 630ft (192.02m) above sea-level

DEMOGRAPHY

Population: 131,117 (2010)

(77.3% White - 61.4% non-Hispanic white | 11.5% African-American | 6.2% Asian | 2.6% mixed races | 0.4% Native American) 18.4% of the population we're Hispanic or Latino of any race.

Estimate - 195,342 (January, 2020) 49% Male | 51% Female.

Population Density: 2,974.43 people per mi² (1,148.47 people per km²)

Denonym: McKinnian /Markinien/

Time Zone(s): UTC -6 (CST)

• Summer/Daylight Saving: UTC -5 (DST)

ZIP Codes: 75069, 75070, 75071, 75072

Website: www.mckinneytexas.org

ECONOMY

Median Household Income: $87,608

Employment: 82,370

Median Age: 31.8 Male | 33.5 Female

Total City Employees: Roughly 1,200

The average household size is 2.89 and the average family size is 3.29. Per capita income for the city was $28,185. About 4.9% of families and 8.5% of the population are living below the poverty line, including 9.2% of those less than 18 and 7.9% of those over 65. As of the 2000 U.S. Census, 64% of the foreign-born residents of McKinney originated from Mexico. As of 2009, 70% of McKinney's total population born outside of the United States had arrived in the U.S. in the 1990s. In May 2017, McKinney had a 5.9% population growth rate between 2015 and 2016.

Top 10 Employers in McKinney

1. Raytheon Space & Airbourne Systems (2,725 employees)

2. Collin College (2,631)

3. McKinney Independent School District (2,500)

4. Torchmark Corporation (1,640)

5. Encore Wire Corporation (1,350)

6. City of McKinney (1,271)

7. Medical Center of McKinney (1,000)

8. Baylor Scott & White Medical Center - McKinney (738)

9. TimberBlindsMetroShade (450)

10. Watson & Chalin Mfg Inc. (350)

EDUCATION

Literacy Rate: 92% High School | 31% Bachelor's | 15% Graduates

McKinney Independent School District - www.mckinneyisd.net

#1 Duvall Street, McKinney TX 75069

• Enrollment: 24,500

• Elementary (K-5th grades): 20

• Middle (6th-8th grades): 5

• High School (9th-12th grades): 3

• Alternative education campuses: 2

Early childhood development center: 1

Collin College – www.collin.edu

Central Park Campus, 2200 W. University Drive

A Higher Education Campus is located at the city’s Gateway (Central Expressway at U.S. 121)

AMENITIES, PARKS AND RECREATION

• Fire Stations: 10

• Public Library: 2

• Parks: 48

• Golf Courses (public & private): 2 public | 4 private

• Recreation Centers: 3

• Swimming Pools: outdoor aquatic centers, 1 indoor pool at the Senior Center plus indoor/outdoor aquatics

at the Apex Centre.

• Tennis Courts: 2 at Finch Park; 11 lighted courts at The Courts, Gabe Nesbitt Community Park

• Soccer Fields: 24

• Boxing Gym: 1

• Skatepark: 1

• Dog Park: 1

• Nearest Lake: Lake Lavon - www.swf-wc.usace.army.mil/lavon/ - Corps of Engineers lake 20 minutes east.

• Airport: 1 |

McKinney National Airport (general aviation) - www.flytki.com

Nearby Airport: 2

Dallas Lovefield (30 miles Southwest) - www.dallas-lovefield.com

DFW International Airport (45 minutes west) – www.dfwairport.com

FACTS AT A GLANCE

McKinney, tx is a city in North Texas. It is the county seat of Collin county, Texas, USA. It is Collin's second largest city after Plano. A suburb of the DFW metroplex with Rich cultural history, McKinney is located on N. Central Expressway (Hwy. 75), about 32 miles (51.52km) Northeast of Dallas. In the 2010 Census, McKinney's population was 131,117 making it the 19th most populous city in Texas. As of May, 2017, McKinney was the fastest growing city in the States.

History of McKinney

McKinney, named for Collin McKinney, a signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence and early settler in

North Texas, has thrived as county seat of Collin County since it was first established in 1848. In 1913, McKinney adopted Commission form of government. For the first 125 years of its history, McKinney served as the principal commercial center for the county. The county seat provided farmers with flour, corn, and cotton mills, cotton gins, a cotton compress, and a cottonseed oil mill, as well as banks, churches, schools, newspapers, and from the 1880s, an opera house. Businesses also came to include a textile mill, an ice company, a large dairy, and a garment-manufacturing company. The population grew from 35 in 1848 to 4,714 in 1912. By 1953, McKinney had a population of more than 10,000 and 355 businesses. The town continued to serve as an agribusiness center for the county until the late 1960s.

By 1970, McKinney was surpassed in size by Plano . McKinney experienced moderate population growth, from 15,193 in the 1970 census, to 21,283 in the 1990 census. By the mid-1980s, the town had become a commuter center for residents who worked in Plano and Dallas. In 1985, it had a population of just over 16,000 and supported 254 businesses. Since then, McKinney's rate of increase has been much more dramatic. In the 2000 census, McKinney had grown to 54,369 with 2,005 businesses and in the 2010 census the population had more than doubled to 131,117 residents. [11] The Census Bureau's most recent estimated population for McKinney (July 1, 2015) is 162,898. [11] The most recent population estimate, produced by the city as of January 1, 2019, is 187,802. McKinney’s

commercial and residential historic districts have been carefully preserved as the community continues to

develop new technologies and unique destination niches. Visitors and residents alike relish the sense of place

and authenticity McKinney offers.

CLIMATE

McKinney, tx is part of the Humid Subtropical region. McKinney is part of the Texas blackland prairies, which means it gets hot summers because it is in the Sun Belt. Humidity makes temperatures feel higher. Winters are mild and are usually rainy; snowstorms occasionally occur. Spring is the wettest part of the year, which brings winds from the Gulf of Mexico.

• Average annual High/Low Temperature – 77°F (25°C)/55°F (12.78°C)

• On average, August is the warmest month (83.95°f | 28.86°c)

• The highest recorded temperature was 118 °F (47.78°C) on Tuesday August 11, 1936. The highest recorded temperature in recent times is 112°F (44.44°C) on Monday September 04, 2000

• Temperatures reach into the low 100°'s (37.78°'s) in July, through September.

• On average, January is the coolest month (43.5°F | 6.39°C)

• The lowest temperature recorded here is -7°F (-21.67°C) on Monday January 31, 1949. In recent years, the recorded lowest temperature was 7°F (-13.89°C) on Wednesday January 17, 2018.

• Temperatures are rarely much lower than 30°F (-1.11°C) December, through February.

• Average annual precipitation: Rain (33.22" | 843.79mm), Snowfall (2.7" | 6.86cm)

• Maximum average precipitation occurs in May (5.35" | 135.89mm)

• August is the driest month (1.95" | 49.53mm)

• The highest daily precipitation on record was 4.44" (112.78mm) recorded in the El Nïno season on Tuesday March 18, 2008.

• Average Number of Sunny Days: 234

• Average time of most Intense Heat: 4 p.m.

• Prevailing Wind/Direction: S at 9 mph - 13 mph (14.49km/h - 20.93km/h)

ACCOLADES

• McKinney was declared a “Texas Film-Friendly City” by the Office of the Governor in 2019.

• Livability.com named McKinney in its top 100 most livable cities in the U.S. (2019)

• McKinney became part of the “Monarch Butterfly Initiative.” (2017)

• McKinney was ranked the #1 Best Place to Live by CNN and Money Magazine in 2014, up from #2 in 2013, #5 in 2010 and #14 in 2008. McKinney is the only Texas city to make the Top 15 on four consecutive lists.

• Texas Highways Magazine readers selected McKinney as their #17-ranked favorite

destination in Texas on the magazine’s Top 40 Cities list in 2014.

• McKinney has been named a Tree City USA by the National Arbor Day Foundation.

• First Lady Laura Bush designated McKinney a Preserve America City in 2006.

• The US Census Bureau listed McKinney as the nation's fastest-growing city from 2000 to 2003 and again in 2006, among cities with more than 50,000 people. In 2007, it was ranked second-fastest-growing among cities with more than 100,000 people and in 2008 as third-fastest.

INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT McKINNEY

1. Downtown McKinney is one of the oldest authentic downtowns in Texas, with homes, commercial

buildings, museums and bed and breakfasts dating back to the mid-1800s. The historic district boasts about

1,400 historic buildings, with many “housing” ghosts; ghost stories and legends abounds with Chestnut

Square Historic Village offering ghost tours to guests.

2. Tournament Players Club of Craig Ranch, a private club, was ranked 13th Best Golf Course in Texas by the

Dallas Morning News in 2007. The TPC hosted the Nationwide Tour in 2008.

3. The U.S. Census Bureau has repeatedly ranked McKinney as one of the fastest growing cities in America.

Over the past three decades, the city has grown from 21,283 (1990) to 195,342 (2020).

4. Olympic track gold medalist Michael Johnson selected McKinney for the location of his Michael Johnson

Performance Center, a training facility for amateur and professional athletes as well as aspiring Olympic athletes.

5. McKinney ISD boasts a 92 percent graduation rate with students earning a mean college entrance exam SAT score of 1103.

6. The Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex is the fourth largest metropolitan area in the country, and McKinney’s

complete build-out is predicted to rank it as the fourth largest city in the metroplex.

7. McKinney was known for cotton crops and fabric manufacturing in the old McKinney Cotton Mill. The cotton mill closed in the 1970s, at which time it was the top manufacturer of denim in the world. Renovations began on the building in the late 1990s, with portions of it now being leased as office space as well as a ballroom/banquet hall that is available for special event rental. Its rustic features and unique design elements also make it a popular location for fashion and wedding photo shoots.