Interesting Information About Cypress TX

Cypress TX sits twenty miles northwest of Houston in Harris County along U.S. Highway 290. German immigrants began settling along Cypress Creek in the 1840s near where Anglo-Americans were already ranching. Various Atakapan Indian tribes once inhabited the area but died out when white settlers moved in. Original settler families are remembered through streets and schools bearing their names like Huffmeister Road and Matzke Elementary.

In 1878 a dance hall was built on Huffmeister Road but burned down years later. Settlers rebuilt it with support from the Cypress Texas Gun and Rifle Club using corrugated tin. Tin Hall remained a popular dance hall for over a century. The first Cypress school was built in 1884. That one-room school developed into Cypress-Fairbanks Independent School District, which by the 1980s served the second largest area of Texas school districts after Houston ISD.

With oil discovery along the Gulf Coast in 1904, the Cypress area developed rapidly. Drillers discovered a hot artesian well only a mile from Cypress, resulting in the Houston Hotwell Sanitarium and Hotel where people sought healing from its mineral waters. By the 1980s that site became the Hot Wells Shooting Range.

Rice and dairy farming were main occupations until suburbanization began in the 1950s. The Cy-Fair Rodeo has been a favorite community event since 1944. While the community proper remained unincorporated with fewer than 100 residents in the mid-1980s, the greater Cypress area became a Houston suburb with many subdivisions and thousands of inhabitants.

About Cypress’s Public Recreation

Cypress contains six unique parks. Cypress Top Historic Park features a conserved train station visitors can walk through, barbecue pits, picnic tables, and meeting rooms. The largest park is Bud Had Field Park where you can enjoy disc golf, fishing, and walking trails. What makes this park special is 54 acres dedicated as wetland habitat where native plants and animals thrive within the large Cypress community.