Located 31 miles north of Dallas [1] off U.S. 75, this town of 107,530 residents was named for Collin McKinney, a signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence and author of a bill establishing North Texas’s counties.
For more than a century, McKinney primarily served as an agribusiness center (cattle, corn, horses, wheat), but by the mid-1980s it had become a commuter center for residents working in Dallas.
It’s currently home to nearly 300 businesses, including Collin County Community College and is one of the fastest-growing cities of its size in Texas, largely due to its proximity to the Metroplex and outlying supersized suburbs like Plano, where many people commute from the comparatively appealing small-town atmosphere.
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[1] http://www.moon.com/destinations/texas/dallas-and-fort-worth/dallas