The Cypress Fairbanks (Cy-Fair) region is located northwest of Houston. The main roads through the region are State Hwy 6 / FM 1960, U.S. Highway 290 and State Highway 249. The center of the Cy-Fair region lies just over 20 miles from downtown Houston, Texas. It coincides roughly with the boundaries of the Cypress Fairbanks Independent School District’s (Cy-Fair ISD) boundaries. Cy-Fair is largely unincorporated Harris County with the City of Jersey Village being an incorporated city located within the area. The Cy-Fair area is home to over 730,000 residents in an area of 186 square miles.
The Cy-Fair area was settled during the middle of the 19th Century. Great farming and ranching, plentiful water, and some forested land attracted the early settlers. A one-room school was built in 1884 on the site of today’s Cy-Fair High School campus. The Cy-Fair Area was “born” when the Cypress Fairbanks School District was formed in 1939, when the communities of Cypress and Fairbanks consolidated their educational programs. Residential population increased moderately until the boom years of the past few decades suburbanized this formerly rural territory. Following the opening of Houston Intercontinental Airport and development of the Champions Country Club subdivision in the late-1960s, Cy-Fair was recognized as a desirable suburban residential location. Subsequently, Houston’s unprecedented job and population growth generated strong housing demand in this northwest community area. Residential developers responded with a wide variety of subdivisions, housing types and price ranges. As a result, custom homes, affordable production-builder homes and apartments were all added to the Cy-Fair area. With the addition of thousands of residents, new commercial demand was generated. Many of the new stores and services were developed along the major thoroughfares.
Credit for this information goes to the Cy-Fair Chamber of Commerce
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