History of Mykawa, Texas: From Railway Town to Abandonment
Published: 1952
Updated: June 9, 2017
Mykawa is on the southern edge of the Houston metropolis in southern Harris County. It began with the arrival of the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway and was named for Shinpei Mykawa, a Japanese nurseryman who introduced rice growing in the area in 1906. A local post office operated from 1907 until 1933. In 1914 Mykawa had two general stores and a population of 200; in 1925 it had only twenty residents. In the mid-1930s, when nearby Mykawa oilfield was developed, the town had a population of 100 and a single business. These figures were still reported in the 1960s. After 1970, however, the town began to decline once more. By 1986 a trailer park and an abandoned railroad station were all that remained at the townsite.
Places:
The following, adapted from the Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition, is the preferred citation for this entry.
Claudia Hazlewood, “Mykawa, TX,” Handbook of Texas Online, accessed March 09, 2026, https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/mykawa-tx.
Published by the Texas State Historical Association.
TID:
HNM76
All copyrighted materials included within the Handbook of Texas Online are in accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 related to Copyright and “Fair Use” for Non-Profit educational institutions, which permits the Texas State Historical Association (TSHA), to utilize copyrighted materials to further scholarship, education, and inform the public. The TSHA makes every effort to conform to the principles of fair use and to comply with copyright law.
For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml
If you wish to use copyrighted material from this site for purposes of your own that go beyond fair use, you must obtain permission from the copyright owner.
- 1952
- June 9, 2017
This entry belongs to the following special projects:
