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Texas Parks and Wildlife describes nearly nine miles of trails, including the hard-surfaced Onion Creek Trail and the hikers-only Rock Shelter Trail. Its accessibility page covers all-terrain wheelchair options.[1]
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Get to know the local places, then explore what the public record says: construction, restaurant inspection scores and beverage receipts, with dates and sources beside the data.
McKinney is one of 65 named areas in the City of Austin Neighborhood Planning Areas boundary dataset. The saved source records its planning status as plan approved. These mapped categories differ from colloquial neighborhood names. Districts people name in conversation, like South Congress, Rainey Street or the Sixth Street entertainment district, are not separate areas in this dataset; they sit inside a planning area or straddle two. This boundary is a single polygon in the city's file, with ordinance 20021010-011 recorded in the source, and the city last modified it on . The dataset stores the name as MCKINNEY.
McKinney Falls State Park offers a starting point for exploring this side of Austin: Onion Creek’s limestone ledges, wooded trails and the remains of an early ranch. The state park and the city’s McKinney planning area are different geographies, so use the park’s own maps for a visit.
2 linked sources · CheckedTexas Parks and Wildlife describes nearly nine miles of trails, including the hard-surfaced Onion Creek Trail and the hikers-only Rock Shelter Trail. Its accessibility page covers all-terrain wheelchair options.[1]
The park’s history traces Indigenous presence, routes associated with El Camino Real de los Tejas and the later McKinney homestead. It also acknowledges the enslaved people whose labor developed the ranch.[2]
The park guide notes that reaching some trails requires crossing the Lower Falls. Consult current alerts and trail information rather than assuming every route is accessible in all conditions.[1]
No. The park describes hiking, camping, ranger programs and historical features as well as water-based recreation. Choose an activity using the park’s current guide.[1]
Texas Parks and Wildlife records a 1970 land donation by the Smith family and the park’s official opening in 1976.[2]
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Boundary drawn from City of Austin Neighborhood Planning Areas, as last modified September 22, 2021. Markers are placed from geocoded street addresses, so a record whose address we cannot geocode is listed below but not pinned. The panels under the map are the full text equivalent.
The 25 most recently issued inside this boundary (page limit 25)
Austin Public Health · up to 15 most recent inside this boundary
Texas Dept. of Licensing & Regulation filings · up to 15 inside this boundary
Texas Comptroller mixed-beverage filers we placed inside this boundary
8 of 23 filers in ZIP 78744 placed inside this boundary. Each venue’s figure is its own gross receipts over its own filing months — there is deliberately no area total, because this is a sample, not a census.
McKinney is one of 65 named areas in the City of Austin neighborhood-planning boundary dataset. Its status in the saved source is plan approved. Inclusion in this file does not by itself mean a neighborhood plan was adopted. Well-known districts such as South Congress, Rainey Street and the Sixth Street entertainment district are not separate areas in this dataset; they sit inside a planning area, or straddle two. The McKinney boundary is a single polygon in the source file. The city last modified it on September 22, 2021.
City of Austin ordinance number 20021010-011 is recorded against this planning area in the city's Neighborhood Planning Areas dataset, with planning status plan approved.
City of Austin Development Services has issued 3,310 building permits that it has geocoded inside the McKinney planning-area boundary, the earliest dated February 7, 1980 and the most recent September 29, 2026, for a combined declared construction value of $707,613,041. Declared value is the figure the applicant put on the permit application, not market value or finished cost. Counted from the city's Issued Construction Permits dataset (3syk-w9eu), building permits only, over every issue date in that dataset. The boundary test needs a mapped coordinate, and about one building permit in seven (13.8% as published on 2026-07-26) carries no location, so those rows cannot be placed in any neighbourhood and are not in this figure.
ZIP code 78744 has a centroid inside the McKinney boundary. We match ZIP codes to planning areas by testing each ZIP's centroid against the boundary polygon, so a large ZIP can overlap an area without its centre landing inside it. Use the boundary, not the ZIP, as the authority.