Editing McKinney, Texas (section)

==History==
[[File:Old map-McKinney-1876.jpg|left|thumb|Map from 1876]]In 1848, McKinney was named the county seat of Collin County due to the original county seat of [[Buckner, Texas|Buckner]] not being within three miles of the county's geographic center.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Beginnings |url=https://www.collincountyhistory.com/beginnings.html |access-date=2025-02-03 |website=Collin County History |language=en}}</ref> On March 24, 1849, William Davis, who owned {{convert|3000|acre|km2}} where McKinney now stands, donated {{convert|120|acre|km2}} for the townsite. That same year, McKinney would be incorporated and in 1859  McKinney was incorporated again.<ref name=":3">{{Cite web |title=McKinney's History {{!}} McKinney, TX - Official Website |url=https://www.mckinneytexas.org/122/History |access-date=2025-02-09 |website=www.mckinneytexas.org}}</ref> In 1913, the McKinney adopted the commission form of government.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |last=Association (TSHA) |first=Texas State Historical |title=McKinney |url=https://www.texasalmanac.com/places/mckinney |access-date=2025-02-09 |website=Texas Almanac |language=en}}</ref>

Before the arrival of the railroad in 1872, McKinney saw little growth. After the arrival of the Houston and Texas Central Railroad however, McKinney became the primary commercial center of Collin County<ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-06-25 |title=McKinney, Texas: What laid the tracks for its success and why it considered being the 'Sucker Capitol' |url=https://www.dallasnews.com/news/2020/06/25/mckinney-texas-from-farmlands-to-the-county-seat-of-collin-county/#:~:text=From%201859%20to%201871,%20McKinney,city,%20including%20an%20opera%20house. |access-date=2025-03-18 |website=Dallas News |language=en}}</ref> and stimulated massive growth in the city. Over the next 50 years, McKinney would become an agricultural powerhouse with its production of corn, wheat, and oats, placing Collin County among the top producers in Texas. Cotton also contributed heavily to the economy of Collin County with three new cotton gin being built between 1870-1876 increasing the amount of cotton gins in McKinney to 4.<ref name=":3" />

With newfound prosperity coming from the railroad, McKinney started to build more infrastructure. Construction on the [[Old Collin County Courthouse]] begun in 1874<ref name=":3" /> and in 1883, McKinney saw the establishment of the Collin County National Bank<ref>{{Cite web |title=Collin County Bank |url=https://www.collincountyhistory.com/collin-county-bank.html |access-date=2025-03-18 |website=Collin County History |language=en}}</ref> as well as the establishment of a telephone exchange. In 1889, the city installed electric lights.<ref name=":3" />

By 1970, Plano had surpassed McKinney in population size. Throughout the late 20th century, McKinney experienced steady growth, increasing from 15,193 residents in 1970 to 21,283 by 1990. By the mid-1980s, the town had evolved into a suburban commuter community for individuals working in Plano and Dallas. In 1985, McKinney had a population of just over 16,000 and supported 254 businesses. Since then, the city's growth rate has accelerated significantly.<ref name=":2" /> 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.<ref name="census1">{{Cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/mckinneycitytexas/PST045219|title=U.S. Census Bureau QuickFacts: McKinney city, Texas|website=www.census.gov}}</ref> The Census Bureau's July 2015 estimate placed the  population of McKinney at 162,898.<ref name="census1" /> A later estimate placed the city population as of January 1, 2019 as 187,802.<ref name="mckinneytexas.org">{{Cite web|url=https://www.mckinneytexas.org/294/Demographics-Census-Reports|title=Demographics, Census & Reports &#124; McKinney, TX - Official Website|website=www.mckinneytexas.org}}</ref>

Both the city and the county were named for [[Collin McKinney]], signer of the [[Texas Declaration of Independence]], and a congressman for the Red River district of the former [[Republic of Texas]]. He was the author of a bill establishing counties in the northern part of the state.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=26765|title= Profile for McKinney, Texas, TX| publisher= ePodunk|access-date=August 14, 2012 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191011054722/http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=26765 | archive-date=11 October 2019}}</ref>