Quirky
Buc-ee's Record Car Wash
The Buc-ee's at Katy is the one that holds the record. Its car wash runs 255 feet of conveyor, the longest in the world, so long that a car takes several minutes to travel it from end to end and drivers routinely film the trip. The chain itself began a long way from here and on a much smaller scale.
Industry & Science
Igloo, Made in Katy
The low industrial buildings north of the interstate west of Katy are the headquarters of Igloo, which turns out something like sixteen million coolers a year and has been doing a version of this job since 1947. It began as a small metalworking shop in Houston, and its first product was not a cooler at all.
History
Katy's Rice Dryers
Katy is named after a railroad, though not in the way towns usually are. The Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad was known everywhere along its line by its initials, the K-T, which crews and passengers alike said aloud as Katy.
Elsewhere in Texas
Hear it from the road
Whistlestop tells you this story automatically when you drive past. No searching, no tapping, nothing to ask.
