Klein, Texas

Klein is an unincorporated community in the extraterritorial jurisdiction of Houston within north Harris County, Texas, bordering on Houston to the South and Tomball to the North. It is named after Adam Klein, a German immigrant whose best-known great-great-grandson is singer Lyle Lovett. Other famous sons and daughters of the Klein community include actor Lee Pace, actress Sherry Stringfield, singer/songwriter Derek Webb, songwriter Aaron Tate, and Olympic gold-medalists Laura Wilkinson and Chad Hedrick.

Klein is served by David Wayne Hooks Memorial Airport, one of just a few privately owned airports in the U.S. to have a Federal Aviation Administration control tower, and home to Civil Air Patrol's Delta Composite Squadron.

Klein overlaps land area that is better known as Spring, TX, another unincorporated community.

Location

Since Klein lacks something of a central government, there are no real set boundaries. However, since most of the Klein Independent School District and the Klein Volunteer Fire Department are located in a single zip-code (77379), the zip-code boundaries can generally be used to set certain unofficial boundaries, except in the west where a tiny sliver of zip-code 77375 is part of Klein. These boundaries are Boudreaux Rd to the north, Kuykendahl Rd to the east, State Highway 249 to the west, and Cypress Creek to the south.

Fire service

The [http://www.kleinfiredept.com Klein Volunteer Fire Department] serves areas considered to be Klein. KVFD consists of 7 stations, they provide fire protection for the area. A paid crew provides services Monday thru Friday during regular business hours with a substational pool of volunteers providing response services after regular business hours.

Emergency Medical Services

EMS is provided by Cypress Creek EMS, a highly respected and advanced provider of emergency medical services. It is staffed by both volunteer and salaried medic units.

Education

The Klein community is primarily served by the Klein Independent School District, established by the Texas Legislature in 1977. Middle and high schools in the area include:
*Klein High School
*Klein Oak High School
*Klein Forest High School
*Klein Collins High School
*Kleb Intermediate
*Hildebrandt Intermediate
*Doerre Intermediate
*Wunderlich Intermediate
*Ehrhardt Elementary
*Krahn Elementary
*Mittelstadt Elementary
*Brill Elementary

Significant portions of the affluent 'Champions Area, which is also considered part of Klein, are zoned to the Cypress-Fairbanks Independent School District, the 3rd largest school district in Texas.

Private schools in which most students in the Klein area attend are:
*Northland Christian School
*The John Cooper School - The Woodlands, TX
*Abercrombie Academy
*Northwoods Catholic School
*Trinity Lutheran School - Klein, TX
*Redd School
*The Banff School
*St.Anne's Catholic School - Tomball, TX
*Cypress Christian School
*Sweetwater Christian School
*Concordia Lutheran High School - Tomball, TX
*Salem Lutheran School

Demographics

According to the 2000 Census, 45,986 people live in the zip code (77379) that encompasses Klein. The racial makeup of the town was 85.9 percent White, 4.2 percent Black, 0.6 percent Native American, 5.8 percent Asian, 0.1 percent Pacific Islander, 3.8 percent from other races. Persons of Hispanic origin, regardless of race, accounted for 8.9 percent of the population. About 2.6% of families live below the poverty line

Neighborhoods

Klein is home to many planned communities, including Champion Forest, Memorial Northwest, Memorial Chase, Spring Creek Forest, Oakwood Glen, Colony Creek, Wind Rose, Wimbledon, Vintage Lakes, Gleannloch Farms, Northampton, Cypresswood, Spring Creek Oaks, Terra Nova among many others. Most of the subdivisions in the Klein area are upper-middle class or upscale neighborhoods such as Champion Forest, Memorial Northwest, Spring Creek Oaks, Kleinwood, Vintage Lakes, Gleannloch Farms, Colony Creek, and the Wimbledon area, which consists of Wimbledon Estates, Wimbledon Champions, Wimbledon Forest, Wimbledon Park, and Lafone Estates.

Sister Communities

The entire Northwest Harris County area encompassing Cypress, Klein, Tomball and Spring was settled by German farmers in the early 1800s. The area was known as "Big Cypress".

* Cypress, Texas
* Spring, Texas
* Tomball, Texas
* Champions Forest, Texas

External links

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* [http://www.hooksairport.com/ Hooks Airport Web Site]
* [http://delta.txwg.cap.gov/index.html Delta Composite Squadron, Civil Air Patrol]
* [http://www.kleinfiredept.com/ Klein Volunteer Fire Department]
* [http://www.ccems.com/ Cypress Creek EMS]
* [http://www.kleinisd.net/ Klein Independent School District]
* [http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?040301fa_fact1 Story about Lyle Lovett's connection to Klein]