McKinney, Texas

McKinney is a city in and the county seat of Collin County, Texas, United States,^[5] and the second in population to Plano. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the city's 2010 population was 131,117 making it the nineteenth most populous city in the state of Texas.^[6] It is part of the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, and is located about 31 mi (50 km) north of Dallas.
The 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.^[7] The most recent population estimate, as of January 1, 2014, is 149,082.^[8]

On March 24, 1849, William Davis, who owned 3,000 acres (12 km²) where McKinney now stands, donated 120 acres (0.49 km²) for the townsite. Ten years later McKinney incorporated, and in 1913 the town adopted the 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 cottonseed oil mill, as well as banks, churches, schools, newspapers, and, from the 1880s, an opera house.

In the September 2012 CNN's Money magazine's issue, McKinney was ranked 2nd place among Best Places to Live in the United States.

McKinney is one of several fast-growing communities on the northeastern edge of the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex.

McKinney Main Street

Collin County Prison