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Shenandoah is a small incorporated city in Montgomery County covering only about 1.3 square miles along Interstate 45, roughly nine miles south of Conroe.

The community began in the late 1960s as the Shenandoah Valley subdivision on the east bank of Panther Creek, just west of I-45, and the city incorporated in 1974.

Shenandoah's original incorporation claimed much of what is now The Woodlands, but a settlement around 1976 required the city to de-annex that land, leaving it the compact city it is today.

The 2020 Census counted 3,499 people and 1,475 households in Shenandoah — a jump of about 64% from its 2,134 residents in 2010.

Shenandoah's population actually shrank before it boomed: it stood at 1,793 in 1980 and just 1,503 in 2000, before growth along the I-45 corridor took off.

Shenandoah was the hometown of David Vetter, the famous 'bubble boy' who spent his life in a sterile plastic enclosure because of a severe immune disorder; in 1986 the city council renamed Tamina School Road as David Memorial Drive in his honor.

Memorial Hermann The Woodlands Medical Center, which opened in 1985 as the area's first hospital, actually stands in Shenandoah despite its name, and its campus on Pinecroft Drive anchors a major medical district along the city's I-45 frontage.

Much of Shenandoah's modern growth is commercial — medical offices, hotels and retail clustered along I-45 and Research Forest Drive, serving The Woodlands community next door.