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Cypress (often referred to as Cypress-Fairbanks, or Cy-Fair) is an unincorporated area (http://www.cypresstxconnection.com/wiki/Unincorporated_area) of Harris County (http://www.cypresstxconnection.com/wiki/Harris_County,_Texas), Texas (http://www.cypresstxconnection.com/wiki/Texas), United States (http://www.cypresstxconnection.com/wiki/United_States) located completely inside the extraterritorial jurisdiction (http://www.cypresstxconnection.com/wiki/Extraterritorial_jurisdiction) of the City of Houston (http://www.cypresstxconnection.com/wiki/Houston,_Texas). The Cypress area is located along U.S. Highway 290 (http://www.cypresstxconnection.com/wiki/U.S._Highway_290_%28Texas%29) (Northwest Freeway) twenty miles (32 km) northwest of Downtown Houston (http://www.cypresstxconnection.com/wiki/Downtown_Houston).
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Large scale residential and commercial development beginning in the 1980s transformed the once rural area into one of the Houston area's largest suburban (http://www.cypresstxconnection.com/wiki/File:TXMap-doton-Cypress.png) communities.
History
The area around which Cypress sits now was populated by Atakapan (http://www.cypresstxconnection.com/wiki/Atakapa) Indian tribes, but they soon disappeared after the appearance of German settlers in the 1840s; the German heritage is most notably reflected in the names of some of the major thoroughfares of the area, such as Huffmeister and Telge Roads.[1] (http://www.cypresstxconnection.com/forum/#cite_note-0) General Sam Houston (http://www.cypresstxconnection.com/wiki/Sam_Houston) and his Texas Army visited the area on March 22 (http://www.cypresstxconnection.com/wiki/March_22), 1836 (http://www.cypresstxconnection.com/wiki/1836) on the way to Harrisburg (http://www.cypresstxconnection.com/wiki/Harrisburg,_Houston,_Texas), which is now in East Houston, just days before the Battle of San Jacinto (http://www.cypresstxconnection.com/wiki/Battle_of_San_Jacinto).[2] (http://www.cypresstxconnection.com/forum/#cite_note-1) The area was mostly rural until the 1980s when developers began construction of several master-planned communities. The area is often referred to as Cy-Fair or Cypress-Fairbanks, which comes from when the Cypress and Fairbanks volunteer fire departments joined together to form the Cypress-Fairbanks Volunteer Fire Department (now known simply as Cy-Fair VFD).
[edit (http://www.cypresstxconnection.com/w/index.php?title=Cypress,_Texas&action=edit§ion=2)] Geography
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/07/Longwoodin2007.jpg/300px-Longwoodin2007.jpg (http://www.cypresstxconnection.com/wiki/File:Longwoodin2007.jpg)
Longwood is a heavily wooded golf course community located in North Cypress
Cypress is located at http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Erioll_world.svg/18px-Erioll_world.svg.png29°59′40″N 95°40′3″W/29.99444°N 95.6675°W/29.99444; -95.6675 (http://www.cypresstxconnection.com/wiki/File:Longwoodin2007.jpg), near the intersection of US Highway 290 and Spring-Cypress Road. Cypress is located within the Cypress Creek and Little Cypress Creek watershed.
Cypress has two distinct geographic profiles separated by Highway 290. The area north of US 290 is forested and thickly wooded, while the area south of 290 is predominately ranchland and grassy prairie dotted with scrub brush, Live Oaks and Post Oaks.
Cypress falls under the jurisdiction of Harris County Precincts 3 and 4 (separated by Cypress Creek).
Major arteries include Highway 290 to the South and State Highway 249 (http://www.cypresstxconnection.com/wiki/Texas_State_Highway_249) to the East.
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cypress,_Texas
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Large scale residential and commercial development beginning in the 1980s transformed the once rural area into one of the Houston area's largest suburban (http://www.cypresstxconnection.com/wiki/File:TXMap-doton-Cypress.png) communities.
History
The area around which Cypress sits now was populated by Atakapan (http://www.cypresstxconnection.com/wiki/Atakapa) Indian tribes, but they soon disappeared after the appearance of German settlers in the 1840s; the German heritage is most notably reflected in the names of some of the major thoroughfares of the area, such as Huffmeister and Telge Roads.[1] (http://www.cypresstxconnection.com/forum/#cite_note-0) General Sam Houston (http://www.cypresstxconnection.com/wiki/Sam_Houston) and his Texas Army visited the area on March 22 (http://www.cypresstxconnection.com/wiki/March_22), 1836 (http://www.cypresstxconnection.com/wiki/1836) on the way to Harrisburg (http://www.cypresstxconnection.com/wiki/Harrisburg,_Houston,_Texas), which is now in East Houston, just days before the Battle of San Jacinto (http://www.cypresstxconnection.com/wiki/Battle_of_San_Jacinto).[2] (http://www.cypresstxconnection.com/forum/#cite_note-1) The area was mostly rural until the 1980s when developers began construction of several master-planned communities. The area is often referred to as Cy-Fair or Cypress-Fairbanks, which comes from when the Cypress and Fairbanks volunteer fire departments joined together to form the Cypress-Fairbanks Volunteer Fire Department (now known simply as Cy-Fair VFD).
[edit (http://www.cypresstxconnection.com/w/index.php?title=Cypress,_Texas&action=edit§ion=2)] Geography
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/07/Longwoodin2007.jpg/300px-Longwoodin2007.jpg (http://www.cypresstxconnection.com/wiki/File:Longwoodin2007.jpg)
Longwood is a heavily wooded golf course community located in North Cypress
Cypress is located at http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Erioll_world.svg/18px-Erioll_world.svg.png29°59′40″N 95°40′3″W/29.99444°N 95.6675°W/29.99444; -95.6675 (http://www.cypresstxconnection.com/wiki/File:Longwoodin2007.jpg), near the intersection of US Highway 290 and Spring-Cypress Road. Cypress is located within the Cypress Creek and Little Cypress Creek watershed.
Cypress has two distinct geographic profiles separated by Highway 290. The area north of US 290 is forested and thickly wooded, while the area south of 290 is predominately ranchland and grassy prairie dotted with scrub brush, Live Oaks and Post Oaks.
Cypress falls under the jurisdiction of Harris County Precincts 3 and 4 (separated by Cypress Creek).
Major arteries include Highway 290 to the South and State Highway 249 (http://www.cypresstxconnection.com/wiki/Texas_State_Highway_249) to the East.
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cypress,_Texas