MCKINNEY  , a

city and the county-seat of Collin county, Texas, U.S.A., about 30 M . N. by E. of Dallas . Pop . (189o), 2489; (1900), 4342 (917 negroes); (1glo) 4714 . It is served by the Missouri, Kansas & Texas and the Houston & Texas Central railways, and by the Dallas & Sherman inter-urban (electric) line, the central power plant of which is immediately north of the city . McKinney is in a fine farming region; there are also manufactures . The municipal water supply is obtained from artesian wells . The first settlement in Collin county was made about ro m. north of what is now McKinney in 1841 . McKinney was named, as was the county, in honour of Collin McKinney, a pioneer in the region and a signer of the Declaration of the Independence of Texas . It was settled in 1844, was laid out and became the county-seat in 1846, and was first chartered as a city in 1874 .