Katy, suburb of Houston, Texas, is named for the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad ( commonly referred to as the " K-T Railroad ", now a part of Union Pacific ) that ran through Katy in the 19th century.

By the 1950s, the town began to take shape as a notable " bedroom community " suburb of Houston.

Macy's New York began opening stores outside of its historic New York City – Long Island trade area in 1983 with a location at Aventura Mall in Aventura, Florida ( a suburb of Miami ), followed by several locations in Plantation, Florida ( now relocated from the Fashion Mall to the Broward Mall since the Burdine's acquisition ), Houston, New Orleans, and Dallas.

Young lives in the Houston suburb of El Lago, Texas with his second wife, Suzie.

The 2011 national champions are the Bison of North Dakota State University, who defeated the Sam Houston State University Bearkats 17 – 6 on January 7, 2012, at FC Dallas Stadium, then known as Pizza Hut Park, in the Dallas suburb of Frisco, Texas.

* Kingswood, Texas a suburb of Houston

* Cloverleaf, Texas, a suburb of Houston

There are no major shopping centres in the suburb, but smaller strip shopping centres exist at the intersection of Canterbury Road and Station Street ( including the Box Hill South Post Office ), the intersection of Elgar Road and Riversdale Road ( including the Wattle Park Post Office ) and the intersection of Middleborough Road and Mirabella Crescent ( including Houston Post Office ).

Her family briefly relocated to Albuquerque, New Mexico, before settling in Spring, Texas, a suburb of Houston, where Stringfield grew up.

Brady lives in The Woodlands, a suburb of Houston.

He now lives in Humble, a suburb of Houston.

One of the wealthiest districts in the state, District 7 includes several upscale areas of western Houston, wealthy enclaves of Houston, one incorporated suburb, large areas of unincorporated suburbs, and the heavily Democratic Neartown area.

Kahn was born in Jersey Village, Texas, a suburb of Houston.

In early 2012, Cintrón came out of retirement to play for the Sugar Land Skeeters, a minor league team located in Sugar Land, TX, a suburb of Houston.

TimeGate Studios is an American video game developer based in Sugar Land, Texas ( suburb of Houston, Texas ).

Houston suburb Sugar Land found that the combination of lengthening yellow lights and installing cameras reduced violations by 96 percent.

In 2003, the Imperial Sugar Company refinery plant and distribution center was put out of operation, but its effect on the local economy was minimal, if at all, since Sugar Land today has much more of a reputation as an affluent Houston suburb than the blue-collar, agriculture-dependent town it once was a generation ago.

Like the smaller Woodland Heights neighborhood just to its east, it was originally a separate, independent suburb connected to Houston by streetcar.

It is the closest suburb to Downtown Houston and the Texas Medical Center ( about 10 miles away ), which attracts professionals from the oil, gas, energy, medical and aerospace industries.

Susan Rollin, was born to Sandra, and Paul Rollin, in Wichita, Kansas and raised in Spring, Texas, a suburb of Houston.

At that time Luby's did not yet state where it would be moving to ; the company stated that it would most likely move to a suburb in Greater Houston.

* Widest highway ( maximum number of lanes ): The Katy Freeway ( part of Interstate 10 ) in Houston, Texas, has a total of 26 lanes in some sections.

Other acts like Cher, Usher, Frank Sinatra, Eminem, Beyoncé, Whitney Houston, Jessica Simpson, Barbra Streisand, Alicia Keys, Shakira, Nelly Furtado, Katy Perry, Depeche Mode, U2, The Killers, Stevie Nicks, Pink Floyd, Blink 182, The Who, Deep Purple, The Osmonds, Muse, Brooks & Dunn, Marc Anthony, Luciano Pavarotti and Aventura performed more than once at the venue.

Brookshire is a city 34 miles west of downtown Houston along Interstate 10, 7 miles west of Katy, the fastest growing residential region in the U. S .. Brookshire is part of the Interstate 10 Energy Corridor, part of the west Houston and Katy Market, and a member of West I-10 Chamber of Commerce.

Brookshire is 34 miles west of downtown Houston, 7 miles west of Katy, the fastest growing residential region in the U. S .. Brookshire is part of the Interstate 10 Energy Corridor, part of the west Houston and Katy Market, and a member of West I-10 Chamber of Commerce.

That same year the “ Katy ” acquired the line and continued the construction on to Houston.

Katy is a city located in Harris, Fort Bend and Waller Counties in the U. S. state of Texas, within the Houston – Sugar Land – Baytown metropolitan area.

This means that the areas Greater Katy are controlled by the city of Houston and that city has the ability to annex it in the future.

The city of Katy cannot annex this area unless the city of Houston releases the area's ETJ to Katy, which has occurred in several small chunks in recent years.

The most recent instance of this was in 2001 when Houston ceded about 400 acres ( 1. 6 km² ) of ETJ to the City of Katy to allow the Katy Mills Mall and surrounding parking lot to be built entirely within the City of Katy.

The city of Katy paid 1 million dollars for this right, but also had added the threat of building the Katy Mills Mall entirely on Katy's land and placing the parking lot in Houston's ETJ, thus being of no tax benefit to Houston.

Katy is served by the Houston Community College System.

Currently, only these express routes operate to and from downtown Houston during morning and evening commute hours ; METRO does not serve Katy with local routes, as most westbound bus lines in Houston terminate at or near Highway 6, a couple of miles before the Katy city limits.

* 1956 –, the world's first successful container ship, leaves Port Newark, New Jersey for Houston, Texas.

A site was chosen in Houston, Texas on land donated by Rice University, and Administrator Webb announced the conversion on September 19, 1961.

* 1836 – Texas Revolution: A day after the Battle of San Jacinto, forces under Texas General Sam Houston capture Mexican General Antonio López de Santa Anna.

In a June 2008 issue of the journal Autoimmunity Reviews, researchers S Planque, Sudhir Paul, Ph. D, and Yasuhiro Nishiyama, Ph. D of the University Of Texas Medical School at Houston announced that they have engineered an abzyme that degrades the superantigenic region of the gp120 CD4 binding site.

* An American high school, Carnegie Vanguard High School in Houston, Texas, is named after him

The early part of day three was largely housekeeping, spacecraft maintenance and exchanging status reports with mission control in Houston, Texas.

* 1836 – Texas Revolution: The Battle of San Jacinto – Republic of Texas forces under Sam Houston defeat troops under Mexican General Antonio López de Santa Anna.

* Bell ( METRORail station ), Houston, Texas, United States

Five teams have collected three sacrifice flies in an inning: the Chicago White Sox ( fifth inning, July 1, 1962 against the Cleveland Indians ); the New York Yankees twice ( fourth inning, June 29, 2000 against the Detroit Tigers and third inning, August 19, 2000 against the Anaheim Angels ); the New York Mets ( second inning, June 24, 2005 against the Yankees ); and the Houston Astros ( seventh inning, June 26, 2005 against the Texas Rangers ).

* Ziegenbock ( owned by Anheuser-Busch ), is brewed in Houston, Texas.

Olson was born Barbara Kay Bracher in Houston, Texas.

* Milan Williams ( keyboards, trombone, rhythm guitar ) – born March 28, 1948, Okolona, Mississippi, died of cancer, July 9, 2006, Houston, Texas.

The Texas rates encouraged the development of Dallas and Houston by blatantly discriminating against Texas shippers who marketed their goods via Shreveport, Louisiana.

Self checkout machine at Home Depot store # 566 Pin Oak, Houston, Texas

Category: Companies based in Houston, Texas

In June 1941, he was appointed Chief of Staff to General Walter Krueger, Commander of the 3rd Army, at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, Texas.

Students at Rice University in Houston, Texas, for example, held tournaments with trees as targets as early as 1964, and in the early 1960s players in Pendleton King Park in Augusta, Georgia would toss Frisbees in 50-gallon barrel trash cans designated as targets.

* Mauro Hamza Day ( Houston, Texas )

Artist depiction of " Saint Paul Writing His Epistles ", 16th century ( Blaffer Foundation Collection, Houston, Texas ).

The University of Texas Longhorn Band performing on the college football | football field of Reliant Stadium in Houston, Texas, the end zone of which is decorated in colors of The University of Texas at Austin.