The Dallas–Fort Worth–Arlington Metropolitan Statistical Area, a title designated by the U.S. Census as of 2003, encompasses 12 counties within the U.S. state of Texas

Texas

Texas is the second largest U.S. state by both area and population, and the largest state by area in the contiguous United States.The name, based on the Caddo word "Tejas" meaning "friends" or "allies", was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves and to the region of their settlement in...

. The area is divided into two metropolitan divisions: Dallas–Plano

Plano, Texas

Plano is a city in the state of Texas, located mostly within Collin County. The city's population was 259,841 at the 2010 census, making it the ninth-largest city in Texas and the 71st most populous city in the United States. Plano is located within the metropolitan area commonly referred to as...

–Irving

Irving, Texas

Irving is a city located in the U.S. state of Texas within Dallas County. According to the 2010 U.S. Census, the city population was 216,290. Irving is within the Dallas–Plano–Irving metropolitan division of the Dallas–Fort Worth–Arlington metropolitan area, designated...

 and Fort Worth

Fort Worth, Texas

Fort Worth is the 16th-largest city in the United States of America and the fifth-largest city in the state of Texas. Located in North Central Texas, just southeast of the Texas Panhandle, the city is a cultural gateway into the American West and covers nearly in Tarrant, Parker, Denton, and...

–Arlington

Arlington, Texas

Arlington is a city in Tarrant County, Texas within the Dallas–Fort Worth metropolitan area. According to the 2010 census results, the city had a population of 365,438, making it the third largest municipality in the Metroplex...

. Residents of the area informally refer to it as the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex, DFW, or The Metroplex. It is the economic and cultural hub of the region commonly called North Texas

North Texas

North Texas is a distinct cultural and geographic area forming the central-northeastern section of the U.S. state of Texas. North Texas is generally considered to include the area south of Oklahoma, east of Abilene, and north of Waco...

 or North Central Texas and is the largest land-locked metropolitan area in the United States.

The 2010 official U.S. Census real counts has the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex at 6,371,773. During the 12-month period from July 2008 to July 2009, the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington metropolitan area gained 146,530 new residents, more than any other metropolitan area in the United States. The area's population has grown by about one million since the last census was administered in 2000. The Dallas–Fort Worth–Arlington MSA

United States metropolitan area

In the United States a metropolitan statistical area is a geographical region with a relatively high population density at its core and close economic ties throughout the area. Such regions are not legally incorporated as a city or town would be, nor are they legal administrative divisions like...

 is, by population, the largest metropolitan area in Texas

Texas

Texas is the second largest U.S. state by both area and population, and the largest state by area in the contiguous United States.The name, based on the Caddo word "Tejas" meaning "friends" or "allies", was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves and to the region of their settlement in...

, the largest in the South

Southern United States

The Southern United States—commonly referred to as the American South, Dixie, or simply the South—constitutes a large distinctive area in the southeastern and south-central United States...

, the fourth-largest

Table of United States Metropolitan Statistical Areas

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 in the United States, and the tenth-largest in the Americas

Americas

The Americas, or America , are lands in the Western hemisphere, also known as the New World. In English, the plural form the Americas is often used to refer to the landmasses of North America and South America with their associated islands and regions, while the singular form America is primarily...

. The metroplex encompasses 9286 square miles (24,050.6 km²) of total area: 8991 sq mi (23,286.6 km²) is land, while 295 sq mi (764 km²) is water, making it larger in area than the U.S. state

U.S. state

A U.S. state is any one of the 50 federated states of the United States of America that share sovereignty with the federal government. Because of this shared sovereignty, an American is a citizen both of the federal entity and of his or her state of domicile. Four states use the official title of...

s of Rhode Island

Rhode Island

The state of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, more commonly referred to as Rhode Island , is a state in the New England region of the United States. It is the smallest U.S. state by area...

 and Connecticut

Connecticut

Connecticut is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States. It is bordered by Rhode Island to the east, Massachusetts to the north, and the state of New York to the west and the south .Connecticut is named for the Connecticut River, the major U.S. river that approximately...

 combined. It is also the sixth largest gross metropolitan product

Gross metropolitan product

Gross Metropolitan Product or Gross Regional Product is one of several measures of the size of the economy of a metropolitan area...

 (GMP) in the United States, and approximately tenth largest by GMP in the world.

Origin of the term

According to the North Texas Commission (NTC), the term originated from an ad agency's combination

Portmanteau word

A portmanteau or portmanteau word is a blend of two words or morphemes into one new word. A portmanteau word typically combines both sounds and meanings, as in smog, coined by blending smoke and fog. More generally, it may refer to any term or phrase that combines two or more meanings...

 of the terms "metropolitan" and "complex". The NTC copyrighted the term "Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex" in 1972 as a replacement for the previously-ubiquitous "North Texas", which studies had shown lacked identifiability outside the state. In fact, only 38 percent of a survey group identified Dallas and Fort Worth as part of "North Texas", with the Texas Panhandle

Texas Panhandle

The Texas Panhandle is a region of the U.S. state of Texas consisting of the northernmost 26 counties in the state. The panhandle is a rectangular area bordered by New Mexico to the west and Oklahoma to the north and east...

 also a perceived correct answer, being the northernmost region of Texas.

US Government Designated

• Collin County
  Collin County, Texas
  As of the census of 2000, there were 491,675 people, 181,970 households, and 132,292 families residing in the county. The population density was 580 people per square mile . There were 194,892 housing units at an average density of 230 per square mile...
  
  
• Dallas County
  Dallas County, Texas
  As of the census of 2000, there were 2,218,899 people, 807,621 households, and 533,837 families residing in the county. The population density was 2,523 people per square mile . There were 854,119 housing units at an average density of 971/sq mi...
  
  
• Delta County
• Denton County
  Denton County, Texas
  Denton County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. In 2000, its population was 432,976; in 2009 the estimated population had reached 628,300. Part of the Dallas – Fort Worth Metroplex, it is one of the fastest-growing counties in the United States. The county seat is Denton. The county...
  
  
• Ellis County
  Ellis County, Texas
  As of the census of 2000, there were 111,360 people, 37,020 households, and 29,653 families residing in the county. The population density was 118 people per square mile . There were 39,071 housing units at an average density of 42 per square mile...
  
  
• Hunt County
  Hunt County, Texas
  As of the census of 2000, there were 76,596 people, 28,742 households, and 20,521 families residing in the county. The population density was 91 people per square mile . There were 32,490 housing units at an average density of 39 per square mile...
  
  
• Johnson County
  Johnson County, Texas
  As of the census of 2000, there were 126,811 people, 43,636 households, and 34,428 families residing in the county. The population density was 174 people per square mile . There were 46,269 housing units at an average density of 63 per square mile...
  
  
• Kaufman County
  Kaufman County, Texas
  As of the census of 2000, there were 71,313 people, 24,367 households, and 19,225 families residing in the county. The population density was 91/sq mi . There were 26,133 housing units at an average density of 33/sq mi...
  
  
• Parker County
  Parker County, Texas
  As of the census of 2003, there were 98,495 people, 31,131 households, and 24,313 families residing in the county. The population density was 98 people per square mile . There were 34,084 housing units at an average density of 38 per square mile...
  
  
• Rockwall County
  Rockwall County, Texas
  As of the census of 2000, there were 43,080 people, 14,530 households, and 11,972 families residing in the county. The population density was 334 people per square mile . There were 15,351 housing units at an average density of 119 per square mile...
  
  
• Tarrant County
  Tarrant County, Texas
  Tarrant County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2010 U.S. Census, it had a population of 1,809,034. Its county seat is Fort Worth. Tarrant County is the sixteenth most populous county in the United States and the third most populous in Texas. The county is named in honor...
  
  
• Wise County
  Wise County, Texas
  As of the census of 2000, there were 48,793 people, 17,178 households, and 13,467 families residing in the county. The population density was 54 people per square mile . There were 19,242 housing units at an average density of 21 per square mile...
  
  

Metroplex cities, towns, and CDPs

Note: Cities and towns are categorized based on the latest population estimates from the North Central Texas Council of Governments

North Central Texas Council of Governments

The North Central Texas Council of Governments or NCTCOG is a voluntary association of governments in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex. Its ranks currently include 230 member governments including 16 counties, numerous cities, school districts, and special districts...

 (as of January 1, 2010). No population estimates are released for Census-designated places (CDPs), which are marked with an asterisk (*). These places are categorized based on their 2000 census population.

Places with more than 100,000 inhabitants

Places designated "principal cities" by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) are italicized in bold.

• Places with 1,000,000+ inhabitants
  • Dallas
    Dallas, Texas
    Dallas is the third-largest city in Texas and the ninth-largest in the United States. The Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex is the largest metropolitan area in the South and fourth-largest metropolitan area in the United States...
    
    

• Places with 500,000 to 999,999 inhabitants
  • Fort Worth
    Fort Worth, Texas
    Fort Worth is the 16th-largest city in the United States of America and the fifth-largest city in the state of Texas. Located in North Central Texas, just southeast of the Texas Panhandle, the city is a cultural gateway into the American West and covers nearly in Tarrant, Parker, Denton, and...
    
    

• Places with 200,000 to 499,999 inhabitants
  • Arlington
    Arlington, Texas
    Arlington is a city in Tarrant County, Texas within the Dallas–Fort Worth metropolitan area. According to the 2010 census results, the city had a population of 365,438, making it the third largest municipality in the Metroplex...
    
    
  • Garland
    Garland, Texas
    -Climate:* The average warmest month is July.* The highest recorded temperature was in 2000.* On average, the coolest month is January.* The lowest recorded temperature was in 1989.* The maximum average precipitation occurs in May....
    
    
  • Irving
    Irving, Texas
    Irving is a city located in the U.S. state of Texas within Dallas County. According to the 2010 U.S. Census, the city population was 216,290. Irving is within the Dallas–Plano–Irving metropolitan division of the Dallas–Fort Worth–Arlington metropolitan area, designated...
    
    
  • Plano
    Plano, Texas
    Plano is a city in the state of Texas, located mostly within Collin County. The city's population was 259,841 at the 2010 census, making it the ninth-largest city in Texas and the 71st most populous city in the United States. Plano is located within the metropolitan area commonly referred to as...
    
    

• Places with 100,000 to 199,999 inhabitants
  • Carrollton
    Carrollton, Texas
    -Climate:*On average, the warmest month is July.*The highest recorded temperature was 112°F in 1980.*The average coolest month is January.*The lowest recorded temperature was 1°F in 1989.*The most precipitation on average occurs in May....
    
    
  • Denton
    Denton, Texas
    The city of Denton is the county seat of Denton County, Texas in the United States. Its population was 119,454 according to the 2010 U.S. Census, making it the eleventh largest city in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex...
    
    
  • Frisco
    Frisco, Texas
    Frisco is an affluent city in Collin and Denton Counties in the U.S. state of Texas and a rapidly growing suburb of Dallas. As of the 2010 Census, 116,989 people were living in Frisco up from 33,714 in the previous census. Frisco was the fastest growing city in the United States in 2009, and also...
    
    
  • Grand Prairie
    Grand Prairie, Texas
    Grand Prairie is a city in Dallas, Ellis, and Tarrant counties in the U.S. state of Texas and is a part of the Mid-Cities region in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex. Grand Prairie is a suburb of both Dallas and Fort Worth and had a population of 175,396 at the 2010 census.- History :The city of...
    
    
  • McKinney
    McKinney, Texas
    McKinney is a city in and the county seat of Collin County, Texas, United States, and the second in population to Plano. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the city's 2010 population was 131,117 The Census Bureau listed McKinney as the nation's fastest growing city from 2000 to 2003 and again in...
    
    
  • Mesquite
    Mesquite, Texas
    Mesquite is a city located within the Dallas/Ft.Worth area of Texas. As of the 2010 US Census, the population was 139,824.-History:The city was founded May 22, 1873, by a Texas & Pacific Railway engineer who purchased land along the Texas & Pacific line outside of Dallas...
    
    
  • Richardson
    Richardson, Texas
    Richardson is a city in Dallas and Collin Counties in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2010 census, the city had a total population of 99,223. In 2011 the population was estimated to be 107,684. Richardson is an affluent inner suburb of Dallas and home of the Telecom Corridor with a high...
    
    

Places with 10,000 to 99,999 inhabitants

• Addison
  Addison, Texas
  Addison is a city in Dallas County, Texas . The population was 14,166 at the 2000 census, and 15,737 according to a 2009 estimate. Addison is a northern suburb of Dallas...
  
  
• Allen
  Allen, Texas
  Allen is a city in Collin County, Texas, United States, a northern suburb of Dallas. As of the 2010 census the city had a total population of 84,246.-Geography:According to the City of Allen, the city has a total area of...
  
  
• Azle
  Azle, Texas
  Azle is a city in Parker and Tarrant counties in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 10,947.Popular tourist attractions include marine sports at Eagle Mountain Lake such as swimming, fishing and boating.-Geography:...
  
  
• Balch Springs
  Balch Springs, Texas
  Balch Springs is a city in Dallas County, Texas, United States. It is both a suburb of Dallas and is part of the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. The population was 19,375 at the 2000 census. A July 1, 2008 U.S. Census Bureau estimate placed the population at 20,003.-Geography:Balch Springs is located at...
  
  
• Bedford
  Bedford, Texas
  Bedford is a suburban city located in northeast Tarrant County, Texas, in the "Mid-Cities" area between Dallas and Fort Worth. It is a suburb of Fort Worth. The population was 46,979 at the 2010 census...
  
  
• Benbrook
  Benbrook, Texas
  Benbrook is a city located in the southwestern corner of Tarrant County, Texas, in Texas's 12th congressional district, and a suburb of Fort Worth...
  
  
• Burleson
  Burleson, Texas
  Burleson is a city in Johnson and Tarrant counties in the U.S. state of Texas. It is considered a suburb of Fort Worth and is located in the rapidly growing suburban expanse just south of the city. As of the 2010 census, the population was 36,690, having increased from the 20,976 residents counted...
  
  
• Cedar Hill
  Cedar Hill, Texas
  Cedar Hill is a city in Dallas and Ellis Counties in the U.S. state of Texas. It is located approximately sixteen miles southwest of downtown Dallas and is situated along the eastern shore of Joe Pool Lake and Cedar Hill State Park. The population was 32,093 at the 2000 census...
  
  
• Cleburne
  Cleburne, Texas
  Cleburne is a city in Johnson County, Texas, United States, and a suburb of Fort Worth. According to 2007 United States Census Bureau estimates, the population is 29,050. It is the county seat of Johnson County. Cleburne is named for a Confederate General, Patrick Cleburne...
  
  
• Colleyville
  Colleyville, Texas
  Colleyville is a city in northeast Tarrant County, Texas, United States. Located roughly from Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, the population was 22,807 at the 2010 census. Emerging from a number of small, rural settlements along the Cotton Belt Route, Colleyville was established in the...
  
  
• Coppell
  Coppell, Texas
  -Demographics:As of the census of 2000, there were 35,958 people, 12,211 households, and 9,781 families residing in the city. The population density was 2,418.5 people per square mile . There were 12,587 housing units at an average density of 846.6 per square mile...
  
  
• Corinth
  Corinth, Texas
  Corinth is a small town in Denton County, Texas, United States, a suburb of Dallas, and a part of the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. The population was 11,325 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Corinth is located at ....
  
  
• Crowley
  Crowley, Texas
  Crowley is a city in Johnson and Tarrant counties in the U.S. state of Texas; virtually all of the city is in Tarrant County, with only about .01 sq mi in Johnson County...
  
  

• DeSoto
  DeSoto, Texas
  DeSoto is a city in Dallas County, Texas . Over the past eleven years since the 2000 U.S. Census Report, the City of DeSoto has grown in population from 37,646 to 49,047....
  
  
• Duncanville
  Duncanville, Texas
  Duncanville is a city in Dallas County, Texas . Duncanville's population was 36,081 at the 2000 census, and estimated at 42,500 in 2008. Duncanville is a suburb of Dallas and is part of the Best Southwest area, which includes Duncanville, Cedar Hill, DeSoto, and Lancaster.-Geography:Duncanville is...
  
  
• Ennis
  Ennis, Texas
  Ennis is a city in Ellis County, Texas, United States, and a southeastern suburb of Dallas. The population was 16,045 at the 2000 census.In 1871, the Houston and Texas Central Railroad purchased of land in Ellis County at a price of , establishing the line's northern terminus. On May 8, 1872,...
  
  
• Euless
  Euless, Texas
  Euless, known as "Tree City USA," is a city in Tarrant County, Texas, United States, and a suburb of Fort Worth. Euless is part of the Mid-Cities between Dallas and Fort Worth...
  
  
• Farmers Branch
  Farmers Branch, Texas
  Farmers Branch is a city in Dallas County, Texas, United States. It is both an inner-ring suburb of Dallas and is part of the Dallas–Fort Worth Metroplex. The population was 27,508 at the 2000 census. A July 1, 2008 U.S...
  
  
• Flower Mound
  Flower Mound, Texas
  Flower Mound is a town in Denton and Tarrant counties in the U.S. state of Texas, and a suburb of Fort Worth and Dallas. Its population was 50,702 at the U.S. Census Bureau's 2000 census, and 64,669 at the 2010 Census. The town derives its name from the prominent mound located in the southern...
  
  
• Forest Hill
  Forest Hill, Texas
  Forest Hill is a suburb of Fort Worth in Tarrant County, Texas, United States. The population was 12,355 at the 2010 census.-History:Forest Hill began around 1860. The community was called Brambleton Station and Forest Hill Village before being named Forest Hill. By 1896 the community had its first...
  
  
• Forney
  Forney, Texas
  Forney is a city in Kaufman County, Texas, United States and has been named by the Texas legislature as the "Antique Capital of Texas". The population was 5,588 at the 2000 census...
  
  
• Glenn Heights
  Glenn Heights, Texas
  Glenn Heights is a city in Dallas and Ellis Counties in the U.S. state of Texas. The population was 7,224 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Glenn Heights is located at ....
  
  
• Grapevine
  Grapevine, Texas
  Grapevine is a city in northeast Tarrant County, Texas, United States located within the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area. As of the 2010 census the city population was 46,334. The city's moniker is derived from the native grapes prevalent in the area. In recent years several wineries have...
  
  
• Greenville
  Greenville, Texas
  Greenville is the county seat, and the largest city, of Hunt County, Texas, in the United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 25,557....
  
  
• Haltom City
  Haltom City, Texas
  Haltom City is a city in Tarrant County, Texas, United States. Haltom City is an inner suburb of Fort Worth. The population was 42,409 at the 2010 census.-Geography:Haltom City is located at ....
  
  
• Highland Village
  Highland Village, Texas
  Highland Village is a city in Denton County, Texas, United States, a suburb of Dallas hugging the south side of the far western branch of Lewisville Lake. As of the 2000 census the city population was 12,173, though the 2006 projection by the U.S. Census Bureau puts the city's population at 15,738...
  
  

• Hurst
  Hurst, Texas
  Hurst is a city in Tarrant County, Texas, United States. Hurst is one of the Mid-Cities between Fort Worth and Dallas, but is a suburb of Fort Worth. The city was founded by William Letchworth Hurst...
  
  
• Keller
  Keller, Texas
  Keller is a city located in Tarrant County, Texas, in the United States. In 2011, it was ranked 93rd in Money Magazine's list of best cities to live in the United States. It is a northern suburb of the city of Fort Worth and is part of the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex...
  
  
• Lancaster
  Lancaster, Texas
  Lancaster is a city in Dallas County, Texas, United States. The population was 25,894 at the 2000 census.Lancaster is a suburb of Dallas, Texas and is part of the Best Southwest area, which includes Lancaster, Cedar Hill, DeSoto, and Duncanville. Most of the city is in Dallas County. But a...
  
  
• Lewisville
  Lewisville, Texas
  Lewisville is a city in Denton County in the U.S. state of Texas. The 2010 United States Census placed the population at 95,290 within . The city also includes of Lewisville Lake....
  
  
• Little Elm
  Little Elm, Texas
  Little Elm is a city in Denton County, Texas, United States and a part of the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. The population was 3,646 at the 2000 census. By the 2010 census, the city total had jumped to 25,898...
  
  
• Mansfield
  Mansfield, Texas
  Mansfield is a city in Ellis, Johnson, and Tarrant counties in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2010 census, the population was 56,368.In 2009, CNN/Money Magazine rated Mansfield as one of the "Best Places to Live" in the United States, ranking 24th out of the top 100 places.-History:The first...
  
  
• Midlothian
  Midlothian, Texas
  Midlothian is a city in northwest Ellis County, Texas, United States. It is the hub for the cement industry in North Texas as it is the home to three separate cement production facilities, as well as a steel mill. Midlothian is also a fast growing community with a growth rate of 142% since 2000...
  
  
• Mineral Wells
  Mineral Wells, Texas
  Mineral Wells is a city in Palo Pinto and Parker counties in the U.S. state of Texas. The population was 16,946 at the 2000 census. The city is named for mineral springs in the area, which were highly popular in the early 1900s...
  
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• Murphy
  Murphy, Texas
  Murphy is a city in Collin County, Texas, United States and a suburb of Dallas, located to the north east of the city. The 2010 census reported Murphy's population as 17,708.-About:...
  
  
• North Richland Hills
  North Richland Hills, Texas
  North Richland Hills is a city in Tarrant County, Texas, United States, and a suburb of Fort Worth. The population was 63,343 at the 2010 census, making it the fourth largest city in Tarrant County. In 2006, North Richland Hills was selected as one of the "Top 100 Best Places to live in America"...
  
  
• Red Oak
  Red Oak, Texas
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• Rockwall
  Rockwall, Texas
  Rockwall is a city in Rockwall County, Texas, United States, and a suburb of Dallas. It is part of the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex. The population was 37,490 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Rockwall County. Rockwall County is the second wealthiest county in the state of Texas in terms...
  
  
• Rowlett
  Rowlett, Texas
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• Royse City
  Royse City, Texas
  Royse City is a city in Rockwall County in the U.S. state of Texas. It also extends into Collin and Hunt Counties.The population was 2,957 at the 2000 census...
  
  
• Sachse
  Sachse, Texas
  Sachse is a city in Collin and Dallas Counties in the U.S. state of Texas. It is a northeastern suburb of Dallas. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 9,751, but as of 2004, the population was estimated at 16,200....
  
  
• Saginaw
  Saginaw, Texas
  Saginaw is a city in Tarrant County, Texas, United States, and a suburb of Fort Worth. The population was 19,806 at the 2010 United States Census. It was named in 1882 by Jarvis J. Green, who had lived and worked on Saginaw Street in Pontiac, Michigan...
  
  
• Seagoville
  Seagoville, Texas
  Seagoville is a city in Dallas County, Texas, United States, and a suburb of Dallas. A small portion of Seagoville extends into Kaufman County. The population was 10,823 as of the 2000 census. The city is located along U.S. Highway 175 and the Southern Pacific Railroad ten miles from Downtown...
  
  
• Southlake
  Southlake, Texas
  Southlake is a city in northeast Tarrant and southeast Denton counties, Texas. As of the 2010 census it had a population of 26,575. A suburb of Fort Worth and Dallas, Southlake is known for exemplary public schools, Southlake Town Square, and Carroll High School's 7-time state champion football...
  
  
• Terrell
  Terrell, Texas
  Terrell is a city in Kaufman County, Texas, United States, and a southeastern suburb of Dallas. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 13,606...
  
  
• The Colony
  The Colony, Texas
  The city is bordered on the west by Lewisville Lake and Lewisville, Texas, on the north and east by Frisco, Texas and on the south by Carrollton, Texas and Plano, Texas...
  
  
• University Park
  University Park, Texas
  University Park is a city in Dallas County, Texas, United States, and a inner suburb of Dallas. The population was 23,324 at the 2000 census. The city is home to Southern Methodist University. Like its neighbor, Highland Park, it is a city partially surrounded by the municipality of Dallas...
  
  
• Watauga
  Watauga, Texas
  Watauga is a city in Tarrant County, Texas, United States, and a suburb of Fort Worth. The population was 23,497 at the 2010 census.-Geography:Watauga is located at...
  
  
• Waxahachie
  Waxahachie, Texas
  Waxahachie is a city in Ellis County, Texas, United States, and a southern suburb of Dallas. The population was 21,426 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Ellis County....
  
  
• Weatherford
  Weatherford, Texas
  Weatherford is a city in Parker County, Texas, United States, and a western suburb of Fort Worth. The population was 19,000 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Parker County and is part of the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex.-Geography:...
  
  
• White Settlement
  White Settlement, Texas
  White Settlement is a city in Tarrant County, Texas, United States, and a northwestern suburb of Fort Worth. The population was 16,116 at the 2010 census.-Geography:White Settlement is located at ....
  
  
• Wylie
  Wylie, Texas
  Not to be confused with the unincorporated area of Wylie, Texas just outside Abilene, Texas.Wylie is a city in Collin, Dallas, and Rockwall Counties in the U.S. state of Texas, and a suburb of Dallas. At the 2000 Census, the population was 15,132; 2004 estimates pegged it at 25,850...
  
  

Places with fewer than 10,000 inhabitants

• Aledo
  Aledo, Texas
  Aledo is a city in Parker County, Texas, United States. The population was 1,726 at the 2000 census.The city is served by the Aledo Independent School District.-Geography:...
  
  
• Alma
  Alma, Texas
  Alma is a town in Ellis County, Texas, United States. The population was 302 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Alma is located on Interstate 45 about southeast of Ennis....
  
  
• Alvarado
  Alvarado, Texas
  Alvarado is the oldest city in Johnson County, Texas. The population was 4,289 in 2009.-Geography:Alvarado is located at and is located at the intersection of US Hwy 67 and I-35W. The city is south of Fort Worth and southwest of Dallas.According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has...
  
  
• Alvord
  Alvord, Texas
  Alvord is a town in Wise County, Texas, United States. The population was 1,007 at the 2000 census.Texas Railroad Commissioner Ernest O. Thompson, who also served as a mayor of Amarillo and became an expert on petroleum issues, was born in Alvord in 1892....
  
  
• Anna
  Anna, Texas
  Anna is a city in Collin County, Texas, United States. The population was 8249 at the 2010 census.-Geography:Anna is located at .According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 57  square miles , all of it land.-Demographics:As of the census of 2010, there were 8249...
  
  
• Annetta North
  Annetta North, Texas
  Annetta North is a town in eastern Parker County, Texas, United States, on FM 5. The population was 467 at the 2000 census.The Town of Annetta North was incorporated on August 11, 1979, and Phyllis M. Studer was elected as its first mayor. The current mayor is Rob Watson.Annetta North is a small...
  
  
• Annetta South
  Annetta South, Texas
  Annetta South is a town in Parker County, Texas, United States. The population was 555 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Annetta South is located at ....
  
  
• Annetta
  Annetta, Texas
  Annetta is a town in Parker County, Texas, United States. The population was 1,108 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Annetta is located at ....
  
  
• Argyle
  Argyle, Texas
  Argyle is a city in Denton County, Texas, United States, with a population of 2,365 as of the 2000 census. The master-planned community of Lantana, Texas shares the Argyle mailing address.-History:...
  
  
• Aubrey
  Aubrey, Texas
  Aubrey is a city in Denton County, Texas, United States. The population was 1,500 at the 2000 census.-History:In 1847 the community was named Onega and the Cherokee people were the main inhabitants. Historically it was known for the peanut farms that surrounded the town. By 2009 horse ranches...
  
  
• Aurora
  Aurora, Texas
  Aurora is a city in Wise County, Texas, United States. The population was 853 at the 2000 census.Aurora was also a town in Jefferson County, Texas, near the mouth of Taylor Bayou on Sabine Lake...
  
  
• Bardwell
  Bardwell, Texas
  Bardwell is a city in Ellis County, Texas, United States. The population was 649 in 2009.-Geography:Bardwell is located at...
  
  
• Bartonville
  Bartonville, Texas
  Bartonville is a town in Denton County, Texas, United States. The population was 1,093 at the 2000 census.-History:Bartonville was originally part of the Chinn's Chapel settlement, but then it decided to change to a place that was established in 1853 by Elisha Chinn. Chinn's Chapel eventually...
  
  
• Blue Mound
  Blue Mound, Texas
  Blue Mound is a city in Tarrant County, Texas, United States. The population was 2,394 at the 2010 census.-Geography:Blue Mound is located at...
  
  
• Blue Ridge
  Blue Ridge, Texas
  Blue Ridge is a city in Collin County, Texas, United States. The population was 672 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Blue Ridge is located at ....
  
  
• Boyd
  Boyd, Texas
  Boyd is a town in Wise County, Texas, United States. The population was 1,099 at the 2000 census.-Demographics:As of the census of 2000, there were 1,099 people, 407 households, and 306 families residing in the town. The population density was 382.1 people per square mile . There were 435 housing...
  
  
• Briar
  Briar, Texas
  Briar is a census-designated place in Parker, Tarrant, and Wise counties in the U.S. state of Texas. The population was 5,665 at the 2010 census.-Geography:Briar is located at ....
  
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• Briaroaks
  Briaroaks, Texas
  Briaroaks is a city in Johnson County, Texas, United States. The population was 493 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Briaroaks is located at .According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all of it land....
  
  
• Bridgeport
  Bridgeport, Texas
  Bridgeport is a city in Wise County, Texas, United States. The population was 4,309 at the 2000 census.-Geography:According to the United States Census Bureau, Bridgeport has a total area of 3.7 square miles , of which, 3.7 square miles of it is land and 0.04 square miles of it is...
  
  
• Caddo Mills
  Caddo Mills, Texas
  Caddo Mills is a city in Hunt County, Texas, United States. The population was 1,149 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Caddo Mills is located at ....
  
  
• Campbell
  Campbell, Texas
  Campbell is a city in Hunt County, Texas, United States. The population was 734 at the 2000 census.It was founded in 1880 by local settlers and was named for Postmaster General, and future Texas Governor, Thomas Campbell....
  
  
• Celeste
  Celeste, Texas
  Celeste is a city in Hunt County, Texas, United States. The population was 817 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Celeste is located at .According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all of it land....
  
  
• Celina
  Celina, Texas
  Celina is a city in Collin and Denton County, Texas, United States. Celina has a population of 5,200 according to the 2010 census.-Geography:Celina is located at .According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , all of it land....
  
  
• Chico
  Chico, Texas
  Chico is a city in Wise County, Texas, United States. The population was 947 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Chico is located at ....
  
  
• Cockrell Hill
  Cockrell Hill, Texas
  Cockrell Hill is a city in Dallas County, Texas, United States. The population was 4,443 at the 2000 census. It is completely surrounded by the city of Dallas.-Geography:Cockrell Hill is located at ....
  
  
• Combine
  Combine, Texas
  Combine is a city in Dallas and Kaufman Counties in the U.S. state of Texas. The population was 1,788 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Combine is located at ....
  
  
• Commerce
  Commerce, Texas
  Commerce is a city in Hunt County, Texas, United States, located in rural East Texas. The population was 7,669 at the 2000 census, however recent growth and its proximity to Interstate 30 and the eastern Metroplex has put the population around 9750...
  
  
• Cool
  Cool, Texas
  Cool is a town in Parker County, Texas, United States. The population was 162 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Cool is located at .According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all of it land....
  
  
• Cooper
  Cooper, Texas
  Cooper is a city in Delta County, Texas, United States. The population was 2,150 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Delta County. Cooper proclaims itself to be the "Vetch Capital of the World".-Geography:...
  
  
• Copper Canyon
  Copper Canyon, Texas
  Copper Canyon is a town in Denton County, Texas, United States. Copper Canyon was founded in April 1973. Residents decided to incorporate the town in an effort to preserve the rural atmosphere of the community. The first mayor was Robert Woodin. Council meetings were held in homes until 1978, when...
  
  
• Corral City
  Corral City, Texas
  Corral City is a town in Denton County, Texas, United States. The population was 89 at the 2000 census.The town contracts with Argyle to meet its police, fire, and court service needs.-Geography:Corral City is located at ....
  
  
• Cottonwood
  Cottonwood, Kaufman County, Texas
  Cottonwood is a city in Kaufman County, Texas, United States. The population was 181 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Cottonwood is located at ....
  
  
• Crandall
  Crandall, Texas
  Crandall is a city in Kaufman County, Texas, United States. The population was 2,774 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Crandall is located at .According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all of it land....
  
  
• Cresson
  Cresson, Texas
  Cresson is a city in Hood, Johnson, and Parker counties in the U.S. state of Texas in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. It is located at the intersection of U.S. Route 377 and State Highway 171, seventeen miles southwest of Fort Worth. The Pate Museum is in Parker County in between the two...
  
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• Cross Roads
  Cross Roads, Texas
  Cross Roads is a town in Denton County, Texas, United States. The population was 603 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Cross Roads is located at ....
  
  
• Cross Timber
  Cross Timber, Texas
  Cross Timber is a town in Johnson County, Texas, in the United States. In 2006, the population was 304.-Geography:Cross Timber is located at ....
  
  
• Dalworthington Gardens
  Dalworthington Gardens, Texas
  Dalworthington Gardens is a city in Tarrant County, Texas, United States. The population was 2,259 at the 2010 census.The name is a portmanteau of parts of names of the three anchor cities of the Metroplex: Dallas, Fort Worth, and Arlington.-Geography:Dalworthington Gardens is located at ...
  
  

• Decatur
  Decatur, Texas
  Decatur is a city located in Wise County, Texas, United States. This city was named after Stephen Decatur, Jr. The population was 5,201 at the 2000 census. A July 1, 2008 U.S. Census Bureau estimate placed the population at 6,432. It is the county seat of Wise County...
  
  
• DISH
  DISH, Texas
  DISH is a town in Denton County, Texas, United States. The town had an estimated population of 218 as of July 1, 2009, according to the United States Census Bureau. This community, established in June 2000, was originally named Clark...
  
  
• Double Oak
  Double Oak, Texas
  Double Oak is a town in Denton County, Texas, United States. The population was 2,179 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Double Oak is located at ....
  
  
• Eagle Mountain
  Eagle Mountain, Texas
  Eagle Mountain is a former census-designated place in Tarrant County, Texas, United States. The population was 6,599 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Eagle Mountain is located at ....
  
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• Edgecliff Village
  Edgecliff Village, Texas
  Edgecliff Village is a town in Tarrant County, Texas, United States, and suburb of Fort Worth. The population was 2,776 at the 2010 census. Edgecliff Village is an enclave, completely surrounded by the city of Fort Worth.-Geography:...
  
  
• Everman
  Everman, Texas
  Everman is a city in Tarrant County, Texas, United States. The population was 6,108 at the 2010 census.Former Texas Supreme Court Justice Steven Wayne Smith, who served from 2002–2005, was reared in Everman.-History:...
  
  
• Fairview
• Farmersville
  Farmersville, Texas
  Farmersville is a city in Collin County, Texas, United States. The population was 3,118 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Farmersville is located at ....
  
  
• Fate
  Fate, Texas
  Fate is a city in Rockwall County, Texas, United States. The 2000 Census showed the city's population at 497. A census by the North Texas Central Council of Governments in 2006 showed the city's population at 3,300. Based on current water bills, the city's population is estimated at 5,139. The...
  
  
• Ferris
  Ferris, Texas
  Ferris is a city in Dallas and Ellis Counties in the U.S. state of Texas. The population was 2,175 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Ferris is located at ....
  
  
• Garrett
  Garrett, Texas
  Garrett is a town in Ellis County, Texas, United States. The population was 448 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Garrett is located at .According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , all of it land....
  
  
• Godley
  Godley, Texas
  Godley is a city in northwestern Johnson County, Texas, United States in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. It is on State Highway 171, Farm roads 2331 and 917, and the tracks of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad nine miles northwest of Cleburne...
  
  
• Grandview
  Grandview, Texas
  Grandview is a city in Johnson County, Texas, United States. The population was 3,358 at the 2010 Census.David's Supermarkets, an independent chain of grocery stores, is headquartered in Grandview.-Geography:...
  
  
• Grays Prairie
  Grays Prairie, Texas
  Grays Prairie is a village in Kaufman County, Texas, United States. The population was 296 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Grays Prairie is located at ....
  
  
• Gun Barrel City
  Gun Barrel City, Texas
  Gun Barrel City is a city in Henderson County, Texas, United States. The population was 5,145 at the 2000 census.The town began as an unincorporated community known as the "Old Bethel Community" in the 1960s after completion of Cedar Creek Reservoir. It was incorporated in the late 1960s so it...
  
  
• Hackberry
  Hackberry, Texas
  Hackberry is a town in Denton County, Texas, United States. The population was 544 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Hackberry is located at...
  
  
• Haslet
  Haslet, Texas
  Haslet is a city in Denton and Tarrant counties in the U.S. state of Texas, settled between 1880 and 1883. The population was 1,517 at the 2010 census.-Geography:Haslet is located at ....
  
  
• Hawk Cove
  Hawk Cove, Texas
  Hawk Cove is a city in Hunt County, Texas, United States. The population was recorded as 457 at the 2000 census. A July 1, 2008 U.S. Census Bureau estimate placed the population at 613....
  
  
• Heath
  Heath, Texas
  Heath is a city in Rockwall and Kaufman Counties, Texas, United States. The population was 4,149 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex.-Geography:Heath is located at ....
  
  
• Hebron
  Hebron, Texas
  Hebron is a town in Collin and Denton counties in the U.S. state of Texas. The population was 874 at the 2000 census.For the last 10 years, Hebron has deannexed large portions of its territory to neighboring communities , to be annexed by those communities instead...
  
  
• Hickory Creek
  Hickory Creek, Texas
  Hickory Creek is a town in Denton County, Texas, United States; located 45 minutes north of downtown Dallas. The population of Hickory Creek has grown from 219 at their incorporation in 1963 to the 2005 census of 3,044...
  
  
• Highland Park
  Highland Park, Texas
  Highland Park is a town in central Dallas County, Texas, United States. The population was 8,842 at the 2000 census. Located between the Dallas North Tollway and U.S. Route 75 , four miles north of downtown Dallas....
  
  
• Hudson Oaks
  Hudson Oaks, Texas
  Hudson Oaks is a city in Parker County, Texas, United States in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex The population was 1,637 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Hudson Oaks is located at ....
  
  
• Hutchins
  Hutchins, Texas
  Hutchins is a city in Dallas County, Texas, United States. The population was 2,805 at the 2000 census.Union Pacific's Dallas Intermodal Terminal is located partly in the city of Hutchins and partly in the city of Wilmer . The shipping facility, was built by AUI Contractors LP, Prime Rail Interests...
  
  
• Italy
  Italy, Texas
  Italy is a town in Ellis County, Texas, United States. As of the 2000 census, the town has a total population of 1,993.-Geography:Italy is located at .According to the United...
  
  
• Josephine
  Josephine, Texas
  Josephine is a city in Collin and Hunt Counties in the U.S. state of Texas. The population was 594 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Josephine is located at ....
  
  
• Joshua
  Joshua, Texas
  Joshua is a city in Johnson County, Texas, United States. The population was 4,528 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Joshua is located at ....
  
  
• Justin
  Justin, Texas
  Justin is a city in Denton County, Texas, United States. The population was 1,891 at the 2005 census.-History:In 1848, approximately 70 followers of the French utopian socialist Etienne Cabet arrived in what is now Justin to found an Icarian community. The attempt failed.Contrary to popular belief,...
  
  
• Kaufman
  Kaufman, Texas
  Kaufman is a city in Kaufman County, Texas, United States. The population was 6,490 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Kaufman County.-Geography:Kaufman is located at ....
  
  
• Keene
  Keene, Texas
  Keene is a city in Johnson County, Texas, United States. The population was 6,196 in 2006.-Geography:Keene is located at ....
  
  
• Kemp
  Kemp, Texas
  Kemp is a city in Kaufman County, Texas, United States. The population was 1,133 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Kemp is located at ....
  
  
• Kennedale
  Kennedale, Texas
  Kennedale is a city in Tarrant County, Texas, United States. The population was 6,763 at the 2010 census.-Geography:Kennedale is located at ....
  
  
• Krugerville
  Krugerville, Texas
  Krugerville is a city in Denton County, Texas, United States. The population was 903 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Krugerville is located at ....
  
  
• Krum
  Krum, Texas
  Krum is a city in Denton County, Texas, United States. The population was 1,979 at the 2000 census. It is estimated that over 3,000 people live in Krum today.-Geography:Krum is located at ....
  
  
• Lake Bridgeport
  Lake Bridgeport, Texas
  Lake Bridgeport is a city in Wise County, Texas, United States. The population was 372 at the 2000 census. Lake Bridgeport is named for a nearby lake.-Geography:Lake Bridgeport is located at ....
  
  
• Lake Dallas
  Lake Dallas, Texas
  Lake Dallas is a city in Denton County, Texas, United States. The population was 6,166 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Lake Dallas is located at ....
  
  
• Lake Worth
  Lake Worth, Texas
  Lake Worth is a city in Tarrant County, Texas, United States. The population was 4,584 at the 2010 census. The city is adjacent to, and named after, Lake Worth, a popular recreational lake in the northwestern portion of Tarrant County.-Geography:...
  
  

• Lakeside
  Lakeside, Tarrant County, Texas
  Lakeside is a town in Tarrant County, Texas, United States. The population was 1,307 at the 2010 census.-Geography:Lakeside is located at ....
  
  
• Lakewood Village
  Lakewood Village, Texas
  Lakewood Village is a city in Denton County, Texas, United States. The population was 342 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Lakewood Village is located at ....
  
  
• Lavon
  Lavon, Texas
  Lavon is a city in Collin County, Texas, United States. The population was 387 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Lavon is located at .According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , all of it land.-Demographics:...
  
  
• Lincoln Park
  Lincoln Park, Texas
  Lincoln Park is a town in Denton County, Texas, United States. The population was 517 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Lincoln Park is located at ....
  
  
• Lone Oak
  Lone Oak, Texas
  Lone Oak is a city in Hunt County, Texas, United States. The population was 521 at the 2000 census. Although Lone Oak changed from a town to a city in November 1890, the change was not recognized by the Census Bureau until June 2007; consequently, it was listed as a town at the 2000...
  
  
• Lowry Crossing
  Lowry Crossing, Texas
  Lowry Crossing is a city in Collin County, Texas, United States. The population was 1,229 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Lowry Crossing is located at .According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all of it land....
  
  
• Lucas
  Lucas, Texas
  Block quoteLucas is a city in Collin County, Texas, United States. The population was 2,890 at the 2000 census. Recent population statistics show Lucas to have a population above 5,000 people ; however, the current population signs within the city limits state a population of 5015.-Geography:Lucas...
  
  
• Mabank
  Mabank, Texas
  Mabank is a town in Henderson and Kaufman Counties in the U.S. state of Texas. The population was 2,151 at the 2000 census. The population estimate as of January 1, 2007 was 2,816.-Geography:Mabank is located at ....
  
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• Maypearl
  Maypearl, Texas
  Maypearl is a city in Ellis County, Texas, United States. The population was 956 in 2009.-Geography:Maypearl is located at .According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all of it land.-Demographics:...
  
  
• McLendon-Chisholm
  McLendon-Chisholm, Texas
  McLendon-Chisholm is a city in Rockwall County, Texas, United States. The population was 914 at the 2000 census. A July 1, 2008 U.S. Census Bureau estimate placed the population at 1,136.-Geography:McLendon-Chisholm is located at...
  
  
• Melissa
  Melissa, Texas
  Melissa is a city in Collin County, Texas, United States. The population was 1,350 at the 2000 census, but has since increased to an estimated population of 3,014 in July 2006, a 123.3% increase...
  
  
• Milford
  Milford, Texas
  Milford is a town located in exteme Northern Central Texas in the southwestern corner of Ellis County, Texas United States. The population was 749 in 2008.-Geography:Milford is located at ....
  
  
• Millsap
  Millsap, Texas
  Millsap is a town in Parker County, Texas, United States. The population was 353 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Millsap is located at ....
  
  
• Mobile City
  Mobile City, Texas
  Mobile City is a city in Rockwall County, Texas, United States. The population was 196 at the 2000 census. It currently has the highest population density for any city in Texas, and is the only Texas city that is on the highest population densities of American cities list. It currently ranks 74th...
  
  
• Nevada
  Nevada, Texas
  Nevada is a city in Collin County, Texas, United States. The population was 563 at the 2000 census. First settled in 1835 by John McMinn Stambaugh and named McMinn Chapel, the area was settled by Granville Stinebaugh, who named it after Nevada Territory...
  
  
• New Fairview
  New Fairview, Texas
  New Fairview is a city in Wise County, Texas, United States. The population was 877 at the 2000 census.-Geography:New Fairview is located at ....
  
  
• New Hope
  New Hope, Texas
  New Hope is a town in Collin County, Texas, United States. The population was 662 at the 2000 census.-Geography:New Hope is located at .According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , all of it land.-Demographics:...
  
  
• Newark
  Newark, Texas
  Newark is a city in Tarrant and Wise counties in the U.S. state of Texas. The population was 1,005 at the 2010 census.-Geography:Newark is located at ....
  
  
• Neylandville
  Neylandville, Texas
  Neylandville is a town in Hunt County, Texas, United States. The population was 56 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Neylandville is located at ....
  
  
• Northlake
  Northlake, Texas
  Northlake is a town in Denton County, Texas, United States. The population was 921 at the 2000 census. Despite the name, it is located west of Lake Grapevine .-Geography:Northlake is located at .According to...
  
  
• Oak Grove
  Oak Grove, Texas
  Oak Grove is a town in Kaufman County, Texas, United States. The population was 710 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Oak Grove is located at .According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , all of it land....
  
  
• Oak Leaf
  Oak Leaf, Texas
  Oak Leaf is a city in Ellis County, Texas, United States. The population was 1,209 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Oak Leaf is located at .According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all of it land....
  
  
• Oak Point
  Oak Point, Texas
  Oak Point is a city in Denton County, Texas, United States. The population was 1,747 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Oak Point is located at ....
  
  
• Oak Ridge
  Oak Ridge, Kaufman County, Texas
  Oak Ridge is a town in Kaufman County, Texas, United States. The population was 400 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Oak Ridge is located at ....
  
  
• Ovilla
  Ovilla, Texas
  Ovilla is a city in Dallas and Ellis Counties in the U.S. state of Texas. The population was 3,405 at the 2000 census. The two L's are pronounced as a double L .-Original settlement:...
  
  
• Palmer
  Palmer, Texas
  Palmer is a town in Ellis County, Texas, United States. The population was 1,774 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Palmer is located at .According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , all of it land....
  
  
• Pantego
  Pantego, Texas
  Pantego is a town in Tarrant County, Texas, United States. The population was 2,394 at the 2010 census. It is entirely surrounded by the cities of Arlington and Dalworthington Gardens...
  
  
• Paradise
  Paradise, Texas
  Paradise is a city in Wise County, Texas, United States. The population was 459 at the 2000 census. The majority of the population that claims Paradise as its home lives outside of the city limits. Surrounding areas are flat with rolling hills. Native trees that can be seen in the area are Oak,...
  
  
• Parker
  Parker, Texas
  Parker is a city in Collin County, Texas, United States. The population was 1,379 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Parker is located at .According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all of it land...
  
  
• Pecan Acres
  Pecan Acres, Texas
  Pecan Acres is a census-designated place in Tarrant and Wise counties in the U.S. state of Texas. The population was 4,099 at the 2010 census.-Geography:Pecan Acres is located at ....
  
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• Pecan Hill
  Pecan Hill, Texas
  Pecan Hill is a city in Ellis County, Texas, United States. The population was 672 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Pecan Hill is located at .According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all land....
  
  
• Pelican Bay
  Pelican Bay, Texas
  Pelican Bay is a city in Tarrant County, Texas, United States. The population was 1,547 at the 2010 census.-Geography:Pelican Bay is located at ....
  
  
• Pilot Point
  Pilot Point, Texas
  Pilot Point is a city in Denton County, Texas, United States. The population was 3,538 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Pilot Point is located at ....
  
  
• Ponder
  Ponder, Texas
  Ponder is a town in Denton County, Texas, United States. The population was 507 at the 2000 census. Local legend holds that Bonnie and Clyde either robbed the Ponder State Bank, or attempted to rob it, only to discover it had gone broke the week before. However this is not listed in the Barrow...
  
  
• Post Oak Bend City
  Post Oak Bend City, Texas
  Post Oak Bend City is a town in Kaufman County, Texas, United States. The population was 404 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Post Oak Bend City is located at ....
  
  
• Princeton
  Princeton, Texas
  Princeton is a city in Collin County, Texas, United States. The population was 3,477 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Princeton is located at ....
  
  

• Prosper
  Prosper, Texas
  Prosper is a town in Collin and Denton counties in the U.S. state of Texas. The population was 2,097 at the 2000 census.-Demographics:As of the census of 2000, there were 2,097 people, 678 households, and 589 families residing in the town. The latest 2009 census brought Prosper to a population of...
  
  
• Quinlan
  Quinlan, Texas
  Quinlan is a rural city in the southern part of Hunt County, Texas, United States located within the US Government designated Dallas–Fort Worth metropolitan area.-Demographics:...
  
  
• Rendon
  Rendon, Texas
  Rendon is a census-designated place in Tarrant County, Texas, United States. The population was 12,552 at the 2010 census.-Geography:Rendon is located at ....
  
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• Reno
  Reno, Parker County, Texas
  Reno is a city located in Parker County, Texas, United States . As of the 2010 census, the city had a total population of 2,494.-Geography:...
  
  
• Rhome
  Rhome, Texas
  Rhome is a city in Wise County, Texas, United States. The population was 1067 at the 2010 census.-Geography:Rhome is located at ....
  
  
• Richland Hills
  Richland Hills, Texas
  Richland Hills is a city in Tarrant County, Texas, United States. The population was 7,801 at the 2010 census.-Geography:Richland Hills is located at ....
  
  
• Rio Vista
  Rio Vista, Texas
  Rio Vista is a city in Johnson County, Texas, United States. The population was 656 at the 2000 census. The local Rio Vista residents dispute the proper way to pronounce the name of the town...
  
  
• River Oaks
  River Oaks, Texas
  River Oaks is a city in Tarrant County, Texas, United States. The population was 7,427 at the 2010 census.-Geography:River Oaks is located at ....
  
  
• Roanoke
  Roanoke, Texas
  Roanoke is a city in Denton County, Texas, United States and part of the Dallas – Fort Worth Metroplex. The population is currently 7,900.The main east-west road through town, State Highway 114 Business, is named "Byron Nelson Boulevard" in honor of the legendary golfer who resided in the community...
  
  
• Rosser
  Rosser, Texas
  Rosser is a village in Kaufman County, Texas, United States. The population was 379 at the 2000 census.-Geography:According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of , of which, of it is land and of it is water....
  
  
• Runaway Bay
  Runaway Bay, Texas
  Runaway Bay is a city in Wise County, Texas. The population was 1,104 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Runaway Bay is located at ....
  
  
• Saint Paul
• Sanctuary
  Sanctuary, Texas
  Sanctuary is a town in Parker County, Texas, United States. The population was 256 at the 2000 census, and was incorporated in the early 1980s.-Geography:Sanctuary is located at ....
  
  
• Sanger
  Sanger, Texas
  Sanger is a city in Denton County, Texas, United States. The population was 4,534 at the 2000 census. The 2006 population was 6,200. -Geography:Sanger is located at ....
  
  
• Sansom Park
  Sansom Park, Texas
  Sansom Park is a city in Tarrant County, Texas, United States. The population was 4,686 at the 2010 census.-Geography:Sansom Park is located at ....
  
  
• Scurry
  Scurry, Texas
  Scurry is a town in Kaufman County, Texas, United States. It was incorporated in 2003. A July 1, 2008 U.S. Census Bureau estimate placed the population at 719....
  
  
• Shady Shores
  Shady Shores, Texas
  Shady Shores is a town in Denton County, Texas, United States. The population was 1,461 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Shady Shores is located at ....
  
  
• Springtown
  Springtown, Texas
  Springtown is a city in Parker County, Texas, United States. The population was 2,062 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Springtown is located at ....
  
  
• Sunnyvale
  Sunnyvale, Texas
  Sunnyvale is a town in Dallas County, Texas, United States and a wealthy, affluent suburb of Dallas. It is the easternmost city completely within Dallas County...
  
  
• Talty
  Talty, Texas
  Talty is a city in Kaufman County, Texas, United States. The population was 1,028 at the 2000 census.Talty was incorporated on May 1, 1999.Texas Supreme Court Justice Don R...
  
  
• Trophy Club
  Trophy Club, Texas
  Trophy Club is an affluent town located in Denton and Tarrant Counties in the U.S. state of Texas. It is a wealthy northern suburb of the city of Fort Worth and is part of the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. The population was 8,024 at the 2010 Census...
  
  
• Union Valley
  Union Valley, Texas
  Union Valley is a city in Hunt County, Texas, United States. The city voted to incorporate in an election held on November 6, 2007. A total of 90 votes were cast , 75 in favor of incorporation and 15 against. According to the Union Valley incorporation committee, the city has about 78 households....
  
  
• Van Alstyne
  Van Alstyne, Texas
  Van Alstyne is a city in Grayson Counties in the U.S. state of Texas. The population was 3,046 at the 2010 census.The Grayson County portion of Van Alstyne is part of the Sherman–Denison Metropolitan Statistical Area,-Geography:...
  
   (partial)
• Venus
  Venus, Texas
  Venus is a town in Ellis and Johnson Counties in the U.S. state of Texas. The population was 2,426 in 2006.-Geography:Venus is located at ....
  
  
• West Tawakoni
  West Tawakoni, Texas
  West Tawakoni is a city in Hunt County, Texas, United States. The population was 1,462 at the 2000 census.-Geography:West Tawakoni is located at ....
  
  
• Westlake
  Westlake, Texas
  Westlake is a town in Denton and Tarrant Counties in the U.S. state of Texas. The population is 702 as of the 2010 United States Census.The area known as Westlake was originally settled in 1847 by Charles and Matilda Medlin with about 20 other families. In the mid-twentieth century, now-Westlake...
  
  
• Westminster
  Westminster, Texas
  Westminster is an unincorporated community in northeastern Collin County, Texas, United States. The population was 390 at the 2000 census, at which time it was a city....
  
  
• Weston
  Weston, Texas
  Weston is a city in Collin County, Texas, United States. The population was 635 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Weston is located at .According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all of it land.-Demographics:...
  
  
• Westover Hills
  Westover Hills, Texas
  Westover Hills is a town in Tarrant County, Texas, United States. The population was 682 at the 2010 census.Westover Hills, as of 2000, was the wealthiest location in Texas by per capita income and the 12th highest-income place in the United States....
  
  
• Westworth Village
  Westworth Village, Texas
  Westworth Village is a city in Tarrant County, Texas, United States. The population was 2,472 at the 2010 census.-Geography:Westworth Village is located at ....
  
  
• Willow Park
  Willow Park, Texas
  Willow Park is a city in Parker County, Texas, United States. The population was 2,849 at the 2000 census.Willow Park was the location of Trinity Meadows Race Track, one of the first horse racing tracks opened once Texas legalized parimutuel betting...
  
  
• Wilmer
  Wilmer, Texas
  Wilmer is a city in Dallas County, Texas, United States. The population was 3,393 at the 2000 census. A July 1, 2008 U.S. Census Bureau estimate placed the population at 3,576...
  
  
• Wolfe City
  Wolfe City, Texas
  Wolfe City is a city in Hunt County, Texas, United States located at the intersection of state highways 34 and 11. It is approximately seventeen miles north of Greenville in north central Hunt County, and was settled in the 1860s or 1870s when J. Pinckney Wolfe built a mill near the banks of Oyster...
  
  

Unincorporated places

• Ables Springs
  Ables Springs, Texas
  Ables Springs is an unincorporated community in Kaufman County, Texas, United States.-Geography:Ables Springs is located at in northeastern Kaufman County...
  
  
• Avalon
  Avalon, Texas
  Avalon is an unincorporated community in southern Ellis County, Texas, United States.-History:Avalon is primarily a farming community located at the intersection of FM 55 & TX Hwy 34 in southern Ellis County, Texas. Avalon still operates one of the few county cotton gins...
  
  
• Bolivar
  Bolivar, Texas
  Bolivar is an unincorporated community in northern Denton County, Texas, United States, at the intersection of Farm Roads 2450 and 455, 14 miles northwest of Denton, on Clear Creek.-History:...
  
  
• Brock
  Brock, Texas
  Brock is an unincorporated community in Parker County, Texas, United States.The Brock Independent School District serves area students....
  
  
• Cash
  Cash, Texas
  Cash is an unincorporated community in south central Hunt County, Texas, United States. It lies approximately five miles south of Greenville along State Highway 34....
  
  
• Copeville
  Copeville, Texas
  Copeville is an unincorporated community in southeastern Collin County, Texas, United States, along State Highway 78. Its elevation is 554 feet . Although Copeville is unincorporated, it has a post office, with the ZIP code of 75121; the post office was first opened in 1878.Named for early...
  
  
• Dennis
  Dennis, Texas
  Dennis is an unincorporated community in Parker County, Texas, United States. Its elevation is 728 feet . Although Dennis is unincorporated, it has a post office, with the ZIP code of 76439....
  
  

• Elizabethtown
  Elizabethtown, Texas
  Elizabethtown, once known as Bugtown, is a ghost town located about fifteen miles southwest of Denton in Denton County, Texas, United States. The town derived its original name from the adjacent Elizabeth Creek.-History:...
  
  
• Elmo
  Elmo, Texas
  Elmo is an unincorporated community located on U.S. Highway 80 in Kaufman County, Texas, United States. It lies approximately 13 miles northeast of Kaufman, and has an estimated population of 90.-History:...
  
  
• Floyd
  Floyd, Texas
  Floyd is an unincorporated community in Hunt County, Texas, United States. It is located eight miles west of Greenville.The Bland Independent School District serves area students....
  
  
• Forreston
  Forreston, Texas
  Forreston is an unincorporated community in Ellis County, Texas, United States. It lies on U.S. Route 77 eight miles south of Waxahachie. The population was estimated to be 238 in 2008.-History:...
  
  
• Garner
  Garner, Texas
  Garner is an unincorporated community on Farm Road 113 northwest of Weatherford in Parker County, Texas, United States. It has a population of around 100.-History:...
  
  
• Greenwood
  Greenwood, Wise County, Texas
  Greenwood is an unincorporated community in Wise County, Texas, United States.The Slidell Independent School District serves area students.-External links:...
  
  
• Heartland
  Heartland, Texas
  Heartland is an unincorporated community located in Kaufman County, Texas, United States. The 2,000 acre master-planned community is located 25 miles east of Downtown Dallas and is part of the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex. The community is served by the Crandall Independent School District. There...
  
  

• Ike
  Ike, Texas
  Ike is an unincorporated community in Ellis County, Texas, USA. The community is served by Farm to Market Road 878. The nearest city to Ike is Waxahachie.-External links:* at Handbook of Texas Online...
  
  
• Lantana
  Lantana, Texas
  Lantana a master-planned community developed by Republic Property Group, south of Denton in unincorporated Denton County, Texas, United States. Lantana had 2,426 occupied homes as of August 26, 2011, with an estimated population of 7,885. Lantana shares the 76226 zip code of Argyle.Lantana...
  
  
• Lillian
  Lillian, Texas
  Lillian is an unincorporated community in Johnson County, Texas, United States. It is located along Farm to Market Road 2738, approximately fifteen miles northeast of Cleburne.Lillian is part of the Alvarado Independent School District...
  
  
• Merit
  Merit, Texas
  Merit is an unincorporated community in Hunt County, Texas, United States. It is located fifteen miles northwest of Greenville. Although it is unincorporated, Merit has a post office, with the ZIP code of 75458....
  
  
• Paloma Creek
  Paloma Creek, Texas
  Paloma Creek is a master-planned community covering approximately in eastern Denton County, Texas. The community was developed by Dallas-based Provident Realty Advisors Inc. Paloma Creek is located on U.S. Route 380 in an unincorporated area governed by the Denton County Fresh Water Supply...
  
  
• Peaster
  Peaster, Texas
  Peaster is an unincorporated community in Parker County, Texas, United States, nine miles northwest of Weatherford.-History:Settlement began in the 1870s when Georgia native H.H. Peaster bought of land and built a house. The community that developed near the site of his home was originally called...
  
  
• Poetry
  Poetry, Texas
  Poetry is an unincorporated community primarily in Kaufman County, Texas, United States, but extending into Hunt and Rockwall counties. It is located at the intersection of Farm Roads 986 and 1565, approximately six miles north of Terrell. Originally known as Turner's Point, a post office and...
  
  

• Poolville
  Poolville, Texas
  Poolville is an unincorporated town in Parker County, Texas, United States located along Farm Road 920, about seventeen miles northwest of Weatherford, the county seat...
  
  
• Providence Village
  Providence Village, Texas
  Providence Village is a town in Denton County, Texas, United States. Composed largely of a master-planned community, it includes approximately 1,700 homes and 5,000 people. -Geography:...
  
  
• Rockett
  Rockett, Texas
  Rockett is an unincorporated community in Ellis County, Texas, United States. It is located on FM 813, approximately five miles northeast of Waxahachie.-History:...
  
  
• Sand Branch
• Savannah
  Savannah, Texas
  Savannah is an unincorporated housing subdivision marketed by Huffines Communities just east of Denton in Denton County, Texas, United States. It is located entirely within the boundaries of Denton County Fresh Water Supply District #10....
  
  
• Slidell
  Slidell, Texas
  Slidell is an unincorporated community in Wise County, Texas, United States.The Slidell Independent School District serves area students.-External links:...
  
  
• Telico
  Telico, Texas
  Telico is an unincorporated community in east central Ellis County, Texas, United States.The area that became Telico was settled before 1856...
  
  
• Whitt
  Whitt, Texas
  Whitt is an unincorporated community in northwestern Parker County, Texas, United States.The Perrin-Whitt Consolidated Independent School District serves area students....
  
  

Demographics

As of the 2000 United States census

Census

A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population. It is a regularly occurring and official count of a particular population. The term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses; other common...

, there were 5,161,544 people, 1,881,056 households, and 1,301,993 families residing within the MSA. The racial makeup of the MSA was 69.3% White, 13.9% African American, 0.6% Native American, 3.8% Asian, 0.1% Pacific Islander, 10.0% from other races

Race (United States Census)

Race and ethnicity in the United States Census, as defined by the Federal Office of Management and Budget and the United States Census Bureau, are self-identification data items in which residents choose the race or races with which they most closely identify, and indicate whether or not they are...

, and 2.4% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 21.7% of the population.

The median income for a household in the MSA was $48,062, and the median income for a family was $55,263. Males had a median income of $39,581 versus $27,446 for females. The per capita income

Per capita income

Per capita income or income per person is a measure of mean income within an economic aggregate, such as a country or city. It is calculated by taking a measure of all sources of income in the aggregate and dividing it by the total population...

 for the MSA was $21,839.

Combined Statistical Area

The Dallas–Fort Worth Combined Statistical Area is made up of 19 counties in north central Texas. The statistical area includes two metropolitan areas

United States metropolitan area

In the United States a metropolitan statistical area is a geographical region with a relatively high population density at its core and close economic ties throughout the area. Such regions are not legally incorporated as a city or town would be, nor are they legal administrative divisions like...

 and five micropolitan areas

United States micropolitan area

United States Micropolitan Statistical Areas , as defined by the United States Office of Management and Budget, are urban areas in the United States based around a core city or town with a population of 10,000 to 49,999. The micropolitan area designation was created in 2003...

. As of the 2000 Census, the CSA had a population of 5,487,956 (though a July 1, 2009 estimate placed the population at 6,805,275). The CSA definition encompasses 14628 sq mi (37,886.3 km²) of area, of which 14126 sq mi (36,586.2 km²) is land and 502 sq mi (1,300.2 km²) is water.

Components

• Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs)
  • Dallas–Fort Worth–Arlington (Collin, Dallas, Delta, Denton, Ellis, Hunt, Johnson, Kaufman, Parker, Rockwall, Tarrant, and Wise counties)
  • Sherman-Denison
    Sherman-Denison metropolitan area
    The Sherman–Denison Metropolitan Statistical Area, as defined by the United States Census Bureau, is an area consisting of one county – Grayson – in North Texas, anchored by the cities of Sherman and Denison. As of the 2000 census, the MSA had a population of 110,595...
    
     (Grayson County
    Grayson County, Texas
    As of the census of 2000, there were 110,595 people, 42,849 households, and 30,208 families residing in the county. The population density was 118 people per square mile . There were 48,315 housing units at an average density of 52 per square mile...
    
    )

• Micropolitan Statistical Areas
  • Athens (Henderson County
    Henderson County, Texas
    As of the census of 2000, there were 73,277 people, 28,804 households, and 20,969 families residing in the county. The population density was 84 people per square mile . There were 35,935 housing units at an average density of 41 per square mile...
    
    )
  • Bonham (Fannin County
    Fannin County, Texas
    As of the census of 2000, there were 31,242 people, 11,105 households, and 7,984 families residing in the county. The population density was 35 people per square mile . There were 12,887 housing units at an average density of 14 per square mile...
    
    )
  • Gainesville (Cooke County
    Cooke County, Texas
    As of the census of 2000, there were 36,363 people, 13,643 households, and 10,000 families residing in the county. The population density was 42 people per square mile . There were 15,061 housing units at an average density of 17 per square mile...
    
    )
  • Granbury
    Granbury micropolitan area
    The Granbury Micropolitan Statistical Area, as defined by the United States Census Bureau, is an area consisting of two counties in North Central Texas, anchored by the city of Granbury....
    
     (Hood and Somervell
    Somervell County, Texas
    There were 2,438 households out of which 37.40% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 61.70% were married couples living together, 9.60% had a female householder with no husband present, and 24.50% were non-families. 21.30% of all households were made up of individuals and 9.20% had...
    
     counties)
  • Mineral Wells (Palo Pinto County
    Palo Pinto County, Texas
    As of the census of 2000, there were 27,026 people, 10,594 households, and 7,447 families residing in the county. The population density was 28 people per square mile . There were 14,102 housing units at an average density of 15 per square mile...
    
    )

Demographics

As of the census

Census

A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population. It is a regularly occurring and official count of a particular population. The term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses; other common...

of 2000, there were 5,487,956 people, 2,006,665 households, and 1,392,540 families residing within the CSA. The racial makeup of the CSA was 70.41% White, 13.34% African American, 0.59% Native American, 3.58% Asian, 0.08% Pacific Islander, 9.62% from other races

Race (United States Census)

Race and ethnicity in the United States Census, as defined by the Federal Office of Management and Budget and the United States Census Bureau, are self-identification data items in which residents choose the race or races with which they most closely identify, and indicate whether or not they are...

, and 2.39% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 20.83% of the population.

The median income for a household in the CSA was $43,836, and the median income for a family was $50,898. Males had a median income of $37,002 versus $25,553 for females. The per capita income

Per capita income

Per capita income or income per person is a measure of mean income within an economic aggregate, such as a country or city. It is calculated by taking a measure of all sources of income in the aggregate and dividing it by the total population...

 for the CSA was $20,460.

Geography

The Metroplex overlooks mostly prairie

Prairie

Prairies are considered part of the temperate grasslands, savannas, and shrublands biome by ecologists, based on similar temperate climates, moderate rainfall, and grasses, herbs, and shrubs, rather than trees, as the dominant vegetation type...

 land with a few rolling hills dotted by man-made lakes cut by streams, creeks and rivers surrounded by forest land. The Metroplex is situated in the Texas blackland prairies

Texas blackland prairies

The Texas Blackland Prairies are a temperate grassland ecoregion located in Texas that runs roughly from the Red River in North Texas to San Antonio in the south.-Setting:...

 region, so named for its fertile black soil found especially in the rural areas of Collin, Dallas, Ellis, Hunt, Kaufman, and Rockwall counties.

Many areas of Denton, Johnson, Parker, Tarrant, and Wise counties are located in the Fort Worth Prairie region of North Texas, which has less fertile and more rocky soil than that of the Texas blackland prairie; most of the rural land on the Fort Worth Prairie is ranch land. A large onshore natural gas

Shale gas

Shale gas is natural gas produced from shale. Shale gas has become an increasingly important source of natural gas in the United States over the past decade, and interest has spread to potential gas shales in the rest of the world...

 field

Natural gas field

Oil and natural gas are produced by the same geological process according fossil fuel suggestion: anaerobic decay of organic matter deep under the Earth's surface. As a consequence, oil and natural gas are often found together...

, the Barnett Shale

Barnett Shale

The Barnett Shale is a geological formation located in the Bend Arch-Fort Worth Basin. It consists of sedimentary rocks of Mississippian age in Texas...

, lies underneath this area; Denton, Tarrant and Wise counties feature many natural gas

Natural gas

Natural gas is a naturally occurring gas mixture consisting primarily of methane, typically with 0–20% higher hydrocarbons . It is found associated with other hydrocarbon fuel, in coal beds, as methane clathrates, and is an important fuel source and a major feedstock for fertilizers.Most natural...

 wells. Continuing land use change results in scattered crop fields surrounded by residential or commercial development.

South of Dallas and Fort Worth is a line of rugged hills that goes north to south about 15 miles (24.1 km) that looks similar to the Texas Hill Country

Texas Hill Country

The Texas Hill Country is a vernacular term applied to a region of Central Texas featuring tall rugged hills consisting of thin layers of soil atop limestone or granite. It also includes the Llano Uplift and the second largest granite monadnock in the United States, Enchanted Rock, which is located...

 200 miles (321.9 km) to the south.

Economy

The cities of Dallas and Fort Worth are the anchor cities of the Metroplex. Dallas and its suburbs have one of the highest concentrations of corporate headquarters in the United States. As such, one of the largest industries in the Metroplex is conducting business. The Metroplex also contains the largest Information Technology

Information technology

Information technology is the acquisition, processing, storage and dissemination of vocal, pictorial, textual and numerical information by a microelectronics-based combination of computing and telecommunications...

 industry base in the state (often referred to as Silicon Prairie

Silicon Prairie

The Silicon Prairie can refer to one of several places in the United States: an area in Illinois, one in a multi-state region comprised loosely of parts of Nebraska, Iowa, South Dakota, Kansas, Minnesota, North Dakota, and Missouri, one in Wyoming, and one in Texas.- Dallas-Fort Worth Silicon...

 or the Telecom Corridor

Telecom Corridor

The Telecom Corridor is a technology business center in Richardson, Texas , a northern suburb of Dallas, which contains over 25 million square feet of office space and accounts for over 82,600 jobs. The Corridor is a strip about 6.5 miles long along U.S...

), owing to the large number of corporate IT projects and the presence of numerous electronics, computing and telecommunication firms such as Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments Inc. , widely known as TI, is an American company based in Dallas, Texas, United States, which develops and commercializes semiconductor and computer technology...

, HP Enterprise Services, Dell Services, i2

I2 Technologies

i2 Technologies was a supply chain management software and services company, founded in 1988 by Sanjiv Sidhu and Ken Sharma in Dallas, Texas...

, AT&T

AT&T

AT&T Inc. is an American multinational telecommunications corporation headquartered in Whitacre Tower, Dallas, Texas, United States. It is the largest provider of mobile telephony and fixed telephony in the United States, and is also a provider of broadband and subscription television services...

, Ericsson

Ericsson

Ericsson , one of Sweden's largest companies, is a provider of telecommunication and data communication systems, and related services, covering a range of technologies, including especially mobile networks...

, CA and Verizon in and around Dallas. On the other end of the business spectrum, and on the other side of the Metroplex, the Texas farming and ranching industry is based in Fort Worth. According to the Dallas Business Journal's 2006 Book of Lists, American Airlines

American Airlines

American Airlines, Inc. is the world's fourth-largest airline in passenger miles transported and operating revenues. American Airlines is a subsidiary of the AMR Corporation and is headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas adjacent to its largest hub at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport...

 is the largest employer in the Metroplex. Several major defense manufacturers, including Lockheed Martin

Lockheed Martin

Lockheed Martin is an American global aerospace, defense, security, and advanced technology company with worldwide interests. It was formed by the merger of Lockheed Corporation with Martin Marietta in March 1995. It is headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, in the Washington Metropolitan Area....

, Bell Helicopter Textron

Bell Helicopter Textron

Bell Helicopter is an American rotorcraft manufacturer headquartered in Hurst, Texas, near Fort Worth. A division of Textron, Bell manufactures military helicopter and tiltrotor products in and around Fort Worth, as well as in Amarillo, Texas, and commercial rotorcraft products in Mirabel, Quebec,...

, and Raytheon

Raytheon

Raytheon Company is a major American defense contractor and industrial corporation with core manufacturing concentrations in weapons and military and commercial electronics. It was previously involved in corporate and special-mission aircraft until early 2007...

, maintain significant operations in the Metroplex. ExxonMobil

ExxonMobil

Exxon Mobil Corporation or ExxonMobil, is an American multinational oil and gas corporation. It is a direct descendant of John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil company, and was formed on November 30, 1999, by the merger of Exxon and Mobil. Its headquarters are in Irving, Texas...

, the #1 corporation on the Fortune 500

Fortune 500

The Fortune 500 is an annual list compiled and published by Fortune magazine that ranks the top 500 U.S. closely held and public corporations as ranked by their gross revenue after adjustments made by Fortune to exclude the impact of excise taxes companies collect. The list includes publicly and...

 listings, is headquartered in Irving, Texas

Irving, Texas

Irving is a city located in the U.S. state of Texas within Dallas County. According to the 2010 U.S. Census, the city population was 216,290. Irving is within the Dallas–Plano–Irving metropolitan division of the Dallas–Fort Worth–Arlington metropolitan area, designated...

.

Transportation

The Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport

Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport

Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport is located between the cities of Dallas and Fort Worth, Texas, and is the busiest airport in the U.S. state of Texas...

 (IATA airport code

IATA airport code

An IATA airport code, also known an IATA location identifier, IATA station code or simply a location identifier, is a three-letter code designating many airports around the world, defined by the International Air Transport Association...

: DFW), located between Dallas and Fort Worth, is the largest and busiest airport in the state of Texas

Texas

Texas is the second largest U.S. state by both area and population, and the largest state by area in the contiguous United States.The name, based on the Caddo word "Tejas" meaning "friends" or "allies", was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves and to the region of their settlement in...

. It is the third busiest airport in the world in terms of aircraft movements and the seventh busiest airport in the world in terms of passenger traffic, transporting 59,784,876 passengers in 2007. American Airlines

American Airlines

American Airlines, Inc. is the world's fourth-largest airline in passenger miles transported and operating revenues. American Airlines is a subsidiary of the AMR Corporation and is headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas adjacent to its largest hub at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport...

, based in Fort Worth, has its headquarters next to DFW Airport. American, formerly the largest airline in the world in terms of passengers transported and fleet size, is a predominant leader in domestic routes and operations.

Love Field Airport (IATA airport code

IATA airport code

An IATA airport code, also known an IATA location identifier, IATA station code or simply a location identifier, is a three-letter code designating many airports around the world, defined by the International Air Transport Association...

: DAL) is located in Dallas. Southwest Airlines

Southwest Airlines

Southwest Airlines Co. is an American low-cost airline based in Dallas, Texas. Southwest is the largest airline in the United States, based upon domestic passengers carried,...

, the largest carrier in the world in terms of passengers carried, is based in Dallas next to Love Field.

Public transit options continue to expand significantly, though in several outlying suburbs, it remains limited. Dallas County and parts of Collin and Rockwall Counties have bus service and light rail

Light rail

Light rail or light rail transit is a form of urban rail public transportation that generally has a lower capacity and lower speed than heavy rail and metro systems, but higher capacity and higher speed than traditional street-running tram systems...

 operated by Dallas Area Rapid Transit

Dallas Area Rapid Transit

The Dallas Area Rapid Transit authority is a transit agency based in Dallas, Texas . It operates buses, light rail, commuter rail, and high-occupancy vehicle lanes in Dallas and 12 of its suburbs...

, (DART), covering thirteen member cities. With the completion of projects currently under construction, DART's rail network will grow to 90 miles of track by 2014. The Red Line extends north to Plano and southwest to Westmoreland Road. The Blue Line reaches from Garland in the northeast (with an additional 4.5 mile expansion east to Rowlett scheduled to be complete in December 2012) to Ledbetter Road in south Dallas (with an additional 3 miles south to the University of North Texas near I-20 scheduled to open in 2019). DART's most recent addition, the 28-mile Green Line, which opened in December 2010, connects Carrolton in the northwest through Downtown Dallas to Pleasant Grove in the southeast. The Orange Line, which currently parallels the Red Line from Plano to Downtown Dallas and the Green Line from Downtown Dallas to Northwest Hwy, will be extended in phases from Northwest Hwy. to Las Colinas (Irving) in 2012 and finally to DFW International Airport in 2014.

Denton County has bus service limited to Denton, Highland Village, and Lewisville (with commuter service to downtown Dallas) provided by the Denton County Transportation Authority

Denton County Transportation Authority

The Denton County Transportation Authority is the transit authority that operates in Denton County, Texas, USA, which is northwest of Dallas County...

 (DCTA). The A-train

A-train (Denton County Transportation Authority)

The A-train is a commuter rail line in Denton County, Texas, United States that parallels Interstate 35E and acts as an extension with the Dallas Area Rapid Transit Green Line at Trinity Mills Station in Carrollton. It is operated by the Denton County Transportation Authority and serves Denton...

, a diesel commuter rail line, parallels I-35E

Interstate 35E (Texas)

Interstate 35E , an Interstate Highway, is the eastern half of Interstate 35 where it splits to serve different cities in Texas. I-35 splits into two branch routes, I-35W and I-35E at Hillsboro. I-35E runs north for , maintaining I-35's sequence of exit numbers. It runs through Dallas before...

 to connect Denton, Highland Village, Lewisville, and Carrollton. Several smaller towns along this line, Corinth, Shady Shores, and Lake Dallas, voted to abstain from DCTA and do not have stations. There is an across-the-platform transfer in Carrollton to the DART Green Line. A-Train service began June 20, 2011.

Tarrant County has bus service operated by the Fort Worth Transportation Authority

Fort Worth Transportation Authority

The Fort Worth Transportation Authority is the operator of the bus system in Fort Worth, Texas and Richland Hills, Texas popularly known as The T...

 (known as 'The T'), available only in Fort Worth. The diesel commuter train that serves Fort Worth and its eastern suburbs is operated as the Trinity Railway Express

Trinity Railway Express

The Trinity Railway Express is a commuter rail line in the Dallas – Fort Worth Metroplex. It was established by an interlocal agreement between Dallas Area Rapid Transit and the Fort Worth Transportation Authority . Each transit authority owns a 50% stake in the joint rail project and...

; it connects downtown Fort Worth to downtown Dallas, where it links to the DART light rail system. A station near its midpoint, Centerport, serves DFW Airport via a free airport shuttle bus. The TRE is jointly owned by FWTA and DART. AMTRAK

Amtrak

The National Railroad Passenger Corporation, doing business as Amtrak , is a government-owned corporation that was organized on May 1, 1971, to provide intercity passenger train service in the United States. "Amtrak" is a portmanteau of the words "America" and "track". It is headquartered at Union...

 serves Dallas and Fort Worth once daily in each direction on a route from Chicago to Austin to San Antonio, with connections at San Antonio to New Orleans, Houston, El Paso, Phoenix, and Los Angeles.

The Dallas-Fort Worth area has thousands of lane-miles of freeways and interstates. The Metroplex has the second largest number of freeway-miles per capita in the nation, behind only the Kansas City Metropolitan Area

Kansas City Metropolitan Area

The Kansas City Metropolitan Area is a fifteen-county metropolitan area that is anchored by Kansas City, Missouri and is bisected by the border between the states of Missouri and Kansas. As of the 2010 Census, the metropolitan area has a population of 2,035,334. The metropolitan area is the...

. Like most major metropolitan areas in Texas, most interstates and freeways have access roads where most of the businesses are located; these access roads have slip ramps that merge onto the freeways and interstates. North-south Interstates include I-35 and I-45. East-west routes include I-30 and I-20. I-35 splits into I-35E

Interstate 35E (Texas)

Interstate 35E , an Interstate Highway, is the eastern half of Interstate 35 where it splits to serve different cities in Texas. I-35 splits into two branch routes, I-35W and I-35E at Hillsboro. I-35E runs north for , maintaining I-35's sequence of exit numbers. It runs through Dallas before...

 and I-35W

Interstate 35W (Texas)

Interstate 35W , an Interstate Highway, is the western half of Interstate 35 where it splits to serve different cities in Texas. I-35 splits into two branch routes, I-35W and I-35E at Hillsboro. I-35W runs north for , carrying its own separate sequence of exit numbers. It runs through Fort Worth...

 from Denton to Hillsboro: I-35W goes through Fort Worth while I-35E goes through Dallas. I-30 connects Dallas and Fort Worth, and I-45 connects Dallas to Houston. HOV lanes

High-occupancy vehicle lane

In transportation engineering and transportation planning, a high-occupancy vehicle lane is a lane reserved for vehicles with a driver and one or more passengers...

 currently exist along I-35E, I-30, I-635

Interstate 635 (Texas)

Interstate 635 or the Lyndon B. Johnson Freeway is a partial loop around Dallas, Texas between Interstate 20 in Balch Springs, Texas and State Highway 121 at the north entrance of the Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport in Grapevine, Texas. The route is long...

, US 67

U.S. Route 67

U.S. Route 67 is a 1,560 mile long north–south U.S. highway in the Central United States. The southern terminus of the route is at the United States-Mexico border in Presidio, Texas, where it continues south as Mexican Federal Highway 16 upon crossing the Rio Grande. The northern...

, and US 75. I-20 bypasses both Dallas and Fort Worth to the south while its loop, I-820, loops around Fort Worth. I-635

Interstate 635 (Texas)

Interstate 635 or the Lyndon B. Johnson Freeway is a partial loop around Dallas, Texas between Interstate 20 in Balch Springs, Texas and State Highway 121 at the north entrance of the Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport in Grapevine, Texas. The route is long...

 splits to the north of I-20 and loops around east and north Dallas, ending at SH 121 north of DFW Airport

Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport

Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport is located between the cities of Dallas and Fort Worth, Texas, and is the busiest airport in the U.S. state of Texas...

. I-35E, Loop 12, and Spur 408 ultimately connect to I-20 southwest of Dallas, completing the west bypass loop around Dallas. A large number of construction projects are planned or are already underway in the region to alleviate congestion. Due largely to funding issues, many of the new projects involve building new tollways or adding tolled express lanes to existing highways.

Largest area private-sector employers

Source: Dallas Business Journal Book of Lists 2006

American Airlines American Airlines American Airlines, Inc. is the world's fourth-largest airline in passenger miles transported and operating revenues. American Airlines is a subsidiary of the AMR Corporation and is headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas adjacent to its largest hub at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport...	22,077	Commercial airline
Wal-Mart Wal-Mart Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. , branded as Walmart since 2008 and Wal-Mart before then, is an American public multinational corporation that runs chains of large discount department stores and warehouse stores. The company is the world's 18th largest public corporation, according to the Forbes Global 2000...  Stores, Inc.	21,133	Retail
Texas Health Resources	16,289	Health care
Lockheed Martin Lockheed Martin Lockheed Martin is an American global aerospace, defense, security, and advanced technology company with worldwide interests. It was formed by the merger of Lockheed Corporation with Martin Marietta in March 1995. It is headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, in the Washington Metropolitan Area....  Aeronautics Company	15,900	Military aircraft design and production
Baylor Health Care System	15,200	Health care
Citigroup Citigroup Citigroup Inc. or Citi is an American multinational financial services corporation headquartered in Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States. Citigroup was formed from one of the world's largest mergers in history by combining the banking giant Citicorp and financial conglomerate...	15,000	Financial Services
AT&T AT&T AT&T Inc. is an American multinational telecommunications corporation headquartered in Whitacre Tower, Dallas, Texas, United States. It is the largest provider of mobile telephony and fixed telephony in the United States, and is also a provider of broadband and subscription television services... , Inc.	13,729	Data, voice, networking and internet services
Verizon Communications	12,500	Telecommunications
Texas Instruments Texas Instruments Texas Instruments Inc. , widely known as TI, is an American company based in Dallas, Texas, United States, which develops and commercializes semiconductor and computer technology...	10,600	Semiconductor manufacturing
Albertsons Albertsons LLC Albertsons LLC is a North American grocery company based in Boise, Idaho, with over 240 supermarkets located in Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Florida under the Albertson's and Super Saver Foods banners...	10,100	Retail grocery
Brinker International Brinker International Brinker International, Inc. , is the parent company of Chili's and Maggiano's Little Italy.-History:It was founded in 1975 as Chili's Bar and Grill, purchased by restaurateur Norman E. Brinker in 1983 and rechristened Brinker International in 1990; it now has more than 1,500 restaurants worldwide...	10,000	Restaurants
HCA Healthcare Hospital Corporation of America Hospital Corporation of America is the largest private operator of health care facilities in the world, It is based in Nashville, Tennessee and is widely considered to be the single largest factor in making that city a hotspot for healthcare enterprise.-History:The founders of HCA include Jack C....	9,896	Health care
JPMorgan Chase	8,800	Financial services
J.C. Penney J.C. Penney J. C. Penney Company, Inc. is a chain of American mid-range department stores based in Plano, Texas, a suburb north of Dallas. The company operates 1,107 department stores in all 50 U.S. states and Puerto Rico. JCPenney also operates catalog sales merchant offices nationwide in many...  Company, Inc.	7,900	Retail
Kroger Food Stores Kroger The Kroger Co. is an American supermarket chain founded by Bernard Kroger in 1883 in Cincinnati, Ohio. It reported US$ 76.7 billion in sales during fiscal year 2009. It is the country's largest grocery store chain and its second-largest grocery retailer by volume and second-place general retailer...	7,600	Retail grocery
Target Corporation Target Corporation Target Corporation, doing business as Target, is an American retailing company headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It is the second-largest discount retailer in the United States, behind Walmart. The company is ranked at number 33 on the Fortune 500 and is a component of the Standard & Poor's...	7,554	Retail
Electronic Data Systems Electronic Data Systems HP Enterprise Services is the global business and technology services division of Hewlett Packard's HP Enterprise Business strategic business unit. It was formed by the combination of HP's legacy services consulting and outsourcing business and the integration of acquired Electronic Data Systems,...  (EDS)	7,300	Information technology services
Bank of America Bank of America Bank of America Corporation, an American multinational banking and financial services corporation, is the second largest bank holding company in the United States by assets, and the fourth largest bank in the U.S. by market capitalization. The bank is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina...	7,000	Financial services
Tom Thumb Food & Pharmacy (Safeway Inc. Safeway Inc. Safeway Inc. , a Fortune 500 company, is North America's second largest supermarket chain after The Kroger Co., with, as of December 2010, 1,694 stores located throughout the western and central United States and western Canada. It also operates some stores in the Mid-Atlantic region of the Eastern... )	6,314	Retail grocery
Southwest Airlines Southwest Airlines Southwest Airlines Co. is an American low-cost airline based in Dallas, Texas. Southwest is the largest airline in the United States, based upon domestic passengers carried,...	5,543	Commercial airline
Bell Helicopter Textron	5,301	Aircraft manufacturing
Minyard Food Stores, Inc.	5,091	Retail grocery
Blockbuster Blockbuster (movie rental store) Blockbuster LLC is an American-based provider of home video and video game rental services, originally through video rental shops , later adding DVD-by-mail, streaming video on demand, and kiosks. At its peak in 2009, Blockbuster had up to 60,000 employees. There are around 1700 Blockbuster... , Inc.	4,500	Retail video and games
General Motors General Motors General Motors Company , commonly known as GM, formerly incorporated as General Motors Corporation, is an American multinational automotive corporation headquartered in Detroit, Michigan and the world's second-largest automaker in 2010...	4,030	Automotive manufacturer
RadioShack RadioShack RadioShack Corporation   is an American franchise of electronics retail stores in the United States, as well as parts of Europe, South America and Africa. As of 2008, RadioShack reported net sales and operating revenues of $4.81 billion. The headquarters of RadioShack is located in Downtown...  Corp.	3,896	Electronics retailer
Sprint Sprint Nextel Sprint Nextel Corporation is an American telecommunications company based in Overland Park, Kansas. The company owns and operates Sprint, the third largest wireless telecommunications network in the United States, with 53.4 million customers, behind Verizon Wireless and AT&T Mobility...	3,500	Communications products

Media

The cities of Dallas and Fort Worth have their own newspapers, The Dallas Morning News

The Dallas Morning News

The Dallas Morning News is the major daily newspaper serving the Dallas, Texas area, with a circulation of 264,459 subscribers, the Audit Bureau of Circulations reported in September 2010...

 and the Fort Worth Star-Telegram

Fort Worth Star-Telegram

The Fort Worth Star-Telegram is a major U.S. daily newspaper serving Fort Worth and the western half of the North Texas area known as the Metroplex. Its area of domination is checked by its main rival, The Dallas Morning News, which is published from the eastern half of the Metroplex. It is owned...

, respectively. Historically, the two papers were restricted in readership to their own counties; Tarrant County households would never read the Morning News and vice versa. As the two cities' suburbs have grown together in recent years, it is now common to find locations where both of the newspapers are sold. This pattern has been repeated in other print media, radio, and television, but since the 1970s all of the television stations and most of the FM radio stations have chosen to transmit from Cedar Hill

Cedar Hill, Texas

Cedar Hill is a city in Dallas and Ellis Counties in the U.S. state of Texas. It is located approximately sixteen miles southwest of downtown Dallas and is situated along the eastern shore of Joe Pool Lake and Cedar Hill State Park. The population was 32,093 at the 2000 census...

 so as to serve the entire market, and are programmed likewise. A recent phenomenon seen most clearly in the DFW market has been the rise of "80-90 move-ins", whereby stations have been moved from distant markets, in some cases as far away as Oklahoma, and relicensed to anonymous small towns in the Metroplex to serve as additional DFW stations. According to RadioTime, the market has 38 AM stations, 58 FM stations (many of them class Cs), and 18 full-power television stations. Dallas-Fort Worth is the 5th largest television market in the United States, behind only New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago and Philadelphia.

Two Metroplex AM radio stations, 820 WBAP and 1080 KRLD, are 50,000-watt stations with coverage of much of the North American continent and beyond during nighttime hours.

See Also:
:Category:Radio stations in the Dallas – Fort Worth Metroplex
:Category:Television stations in the Dallas – Fort Worth Metroplex

Sports

The Metroplex is one of just twelve American metropolitan areas

U.S. cities with teams from four major sports

There are 12 U.S. cities with teams from four major sports, where "city" is defined as the entire metropolitan area, and "major professional sports leagues" as:...

 that has a team in each of the four major professional sports leagues. Major professional sports first came to the area in 1960, when the Dallas Cowboys

Dallas Cowboys

The Dallas Cowboys are a professional American football franchise which plays in the Eastern Division of the National Football Conference of the National Football League . They are headquartered in Valley Ranch in Irving, Texas, a suburb of Dallas...

 began competing in the National Football League

National Football League

The National Football League is the highest level of professional American football in the United States, and is considered the top professional American football league in the world. It was formed by eleven teams in 1920 as the American Professional Football Association, with the league changing...

 and the Dallas Texans began competing in the American Football League

American Football League

The American Football League was a major American Professional Football league that operated from 1960 until 1969, when the established National Football League merged with it. The upstart AFL operated in direct competition with the more established NFL throughout its existence...

 (the Texans would later relocate to Kansas City

Kansas City, Missouri

Kansas City, Missouri is the largest city in the U.S. state of Missouri and is the anchor city of the Kansas City Metropolitan Area, the second largest metropolitan area in Missouri. It encompasses in parts of Jackson, Clay, Cass, and Platte counties...

 and become the Chiefs

Kansas City Chiefs

The Kansas City Chiefs are a professional American football team based in Kansas City, Missouri. They are a member of the Western Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League . Originally named the Dallas Texans, the club was founded by Lamar Hunt in 1960 as a...

). In 1972, Major League Baseball's

Major League Baseball

Major League Baseball is the highest level of professional baseball in the United States and Canada, consisting of teams that play in the National League and the American League...

 Washington Senators moved to Arlington to become the Texas Rangers

Texas Rangers (baseball)

The Texas Rangers are a professional baseball team in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, based in Arlington, Texas. The Rangers are a member of the Western Division of Major League Baseball's American League, and are the reigning A.L. Western Division and A.L. Champions. Since , the Rangers have...

. The National Basketball Association

National Basketball Association

The National Basketball Association is the pre-eminent men's professional basketball league in North America. It consists of thirty franchised member clubs, of which twenty-nine are located in the United States and one in Canada...

 expanded into North Texas in 1980 when the Dallas Mavericks

Dallas Mavericks

The Dallas Mavericks are a professional basketball team based in Dallas, Texas. They are members of the Southwest Division of the Western Conference of the National Basketball Association , and the reigning NBA champions, having defeated the Miami Heat in the 2011 NBA Finals.According to a 2011...

 were added to the league. The fourth piece was added in 1993 when the Minnesota North Stars

Minnesota North Stars

The Minnesota North Stars were a professional ice hockey team in the National Hockey League for 26 seasons, from 1967 to 1993. The North Stars played their home games at the Met Center in Bloomington, and the team's colors for most of its history were green, yellow, gold and white...

 of the National Hockey League

National Hockey League

The National Hockey League is an unincorporated not-for-profit association which operates a major professional ice hockey league of 30 franchised member clubs, of which 7 are currently located in Canada and 23 in the United States...

 became the Dallas Stars

Dallas Stars

The Dallas Stars are a professional ice hockey team based in Dallas, Texas. They are members of the Pacific Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League . The team was founded during the 1967 NHL expansion as the Minnesota North Stars, based in Bloomington, Minnesota. The...

. The area is also home to many other minor-league professional teams, four colleges that compete in NCAA Division I athletics, and has played host to many premiere sports events on both an annual and one-time basis.

Major professional sports teams

Club
Sport
Founded
League
Venue


Dallas Cowboys

Dallas Cowboys

The Dallas Cowboys are a professional American football franchise which plays in the Eastern Division of the National Football Conference of the National Football League . They are headquartered in Valley Ranch in Irving, Texas, a suburb of Dallas...

Football

American football

American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...

1960
NFL

National Football League

The National Football League is the highest level of professional American football in the United States, and is considered the top professional American football league in the world. It was formed by eleven teams in 1920 as the American Professional Football Association, with the league changing...

Cowboys Stadium
Texas Rangers

Texas Rangers (baseball)

The Texas Rangers are a professional baseball team in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, based in Arlington, Texas. The Rangers are a member of the Western Division of Major League Baseball's American League, and are the reigning A.L. Western Division and A.L. Champions. Since , the Rangers have...

Baseball

Baseball

Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot diamond...

1972^
MLB

Major League Baseball

Major League Baseball is the highest level of professional baseball in the United States and Canada, consisting of teams that play in the National League and the American League...

Rangers Ballpark in Arlington
Dallas Mavericks

Dallas Mavericks

The Dallas Mavericks are a professional basketball team based in Dallas, Texas. They are members of the Southwest Division of the Western Conference of the National Basketball Association , and the reigning NBA champions, having defeated the Miami Heat in the 2011 NBA Finals.According to a 2011...

Basketball

Basketball

Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...

1980
NBA

National Basketball Association

The National Basketball Association is the pre-eminent men's professional basketball league in North America. It consists of thirty franchised member clubs, of which twenty-nine are located in the United States and one in Canada...

American Airlines Center

American Airlines Center

The American Airlines Center is a multi-purpose arena, located in the Victory Park neighborhood, near downtown Dallas, Texas.It is home to the Dallas Mavericks of the NBA, and the Dallas Stars of the NHL....

Dallas Stars

Dallas Stars

The Dallas Stars are a professional ice hockey team based in Dallas, Texas. They are members of the Pacific Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League . The team was founded during the 1967 NHL expansion as the Minnesota North Stars, based in Bloomington, Minnesota. The...

Hockey

Hockey

Hockey is a family of sports in which two teams play against each other by trying to maneuver a ball or a puck into the opponent's goal using a hockey stick.-Etymology:...

1993^
NHL

National Hockey League

The National Hockey League is an unincorporated not-for-profit association which operates a major professional ice hockey league of 30 franchised member clubs, of which 7 are currently located in Canada and 23 in the United States...

American Airlines Center

American Airlines Center

The American Airlines Center is a multi-purpose arena, located in the Victory Park neighborhood, near downtown Dallas, Texas.It is home to the Dallas Mavericks of the NBA, and the Dallas Stars of the NHL....

FC Dallas

FC Dallas

FC Dallas is an American professional soccer club based in the Dallas suburb of Frisco, Texas which competes in Major League Soccer , the top professional soccer league in the United States of America and Canada...

Soccer
1996
Major League Soccer

Major League Soccer

Major League Soccer is a professional soccer league based in the United States and sanctioned by the United States Soccer Federation . The league is composed of 19 teams — 16 in the U.S. and 3 in Canada...

Pizza Hut Park

Pizza Hut Park

Pizza Hut Park is a soccer-specific stadium with a 21,193-seat capacity, built and owned by the city of Frisco, Texas. Its primary tenant is Major League Soccer team FC Dallas, which relocated from the Cotton Bowl in central Dallas to the fast-growing suburb...

^- Indicates year team relocated to the area

Other professional teams

Club
Sport
Founded
League
Venue


Allen Americans

Allen Americans

The Allen Americans is an ice hockey team in the Central Hockey League which began play in the 2009–10 season. They play at the Allen Event Center in Allen, Texas.-History:...

Hockey

Hockey

Hockey is a family of sports in which two teams play against each other by trying to maneuver a ball or a puck into the opponent's goal using a hockey stick.-Etymology:...

2009
Central Hockey League

Central Hockey League

The Central Hockey League is a mid-level professional hockey league, owned by Global Entertainment Corporation. Its current champions are the Bossier-Shreveport Mudbugs, which defeated the Colorado Eagles four games to three in the 2011 playoffs....

Allen Event Center
Dallas Vigilantes

Dallas Vigilantes

The Dallas Vigilantes were an Arena Football League team based in Dallas, Texas. Like its AFL predecessor, the Dallas Desperados, the Vigilantes played at the American Airlines Center. The Vigilantes and the Jacksonville Sharks began play in the 2010 season, the first after the league's...

Arena Football

Arena football

Arena football is a variety of gridiron football played by the Arena Football League . It is a proprietary game, the rights to which are owned by Gridiron Enterprises, and is played indoors on a smaller field than American or Canadian outdoor football, resulting in a faster and higher-scoring game....

2010
Arena Football League
American Airlines Center

American Airlines Center

The American Airlines Center is a multi-purpose arena, located in the Victory Park neighborhood, near downtown Dallas, Texas.It is home to the Dallas Mavericks of the NBA, and the Dallas Stars of the NHL....

Frisco RoughRiders

Frisco RoughRiders

The Frisco RoughRiders are currently the Class AA affiliate of the Texas Rangers major league baseball club. The team plays in the Texas League, assigned to the South Division. Prior to 2003, the franchise was based in Shreveport, Louisiana, and were known as the Shreveport Captains...

Baseball

Baseball

Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot diamond...

2003^
Texas League

Texas League

The Texas League is a minor league baseball league which operates in the South Central United States. It is classified a Double-A league. The league was founded in 1888 and ran through 1892...

Dr Pepper Ballpark

Dr Pepper Ballpark

Dr Pepper Ballpark is the home ballpark of the Frisco RoughRiders Class AA minor league baseball club. Located in Frisco, Texas in the United States, the stadium has a capacity of 10,600...

Fort Worth Cats

Fort Worth Cats

The Fort Worth Cats are a professional baseball team based in Fort Worth, Texas, in the United States. The Cats are a member of the South Division of the American Association of Independent Professional Baseball, which is not affiliated with Major League Baseball. Since the 2002 season the Cats...

Baseball

Baseball

Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot diamond...

2001
AAIPBL
LaGrave Field

LaGrave Field

LaGrave Field is a stadium in Fort Worth, Texas. It is primarily used for baseball, and is the home field of the Fort Worth Cats independent minor league baseball team. Its original version was the home of the predecessor Panthers/Cats team of the Texas League, during 1926–1958; the American...

Grand Prairie AirHogs

Grand Prairie AirHogs

The Grand Prairie AirHogs are a professional baseball team based in Grand Prairie, Texas, in the United States. The AirHogs are a member of the South Division of the American Association of Independent Professional Baseball , which is not affiliated with Major League Baseball...

Baseball

Baseball

Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot diamond...

2007
AAIPBL
QuikTrip Park
Texas Legends
Basketball

Basketball

Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...

2011
NBA D-League

NBA Development League

The NBA Development League, or NBA D-League, is the National Basketball Association's official minor league basketball organization. Known until summer 2005 as the National Basketball Development League , the NBA D-League started with eight teams in the fall of 2001...

Dr Pepper Arena
Texas Brahmas
Hockey

Hockey

Hockey is a family of sports in which two teams play against each other by trying to maneuver a ball or a puck into the opponent's goal using a hockey stick.-Etymology:...

1997
Central Hockey League

Central Hockey League

The Central Hockey League is a mid-level professional hockey league, owned by Global Entertainment Corporation. Its current champions are the Bossier-Shreveport Mudbugs, which defeated the Colorado Eagles four games to three in the 2011 playoffs....

NYTEX Sports Centre

NYTEX Sports Centre

The NYTEX Sports Centre is a 2,400 seat multi-purpose arena in North Richland Hills, Texas. It is home to the Texas Brahmas of the Central Hockey League, the Texas Outlaws of the Professional Arena Soccer League, and Texas Jr. Brahmas Tier III Jr. A ice hockey team in Western States Hockey League...

Allen Wranglers
Arena Football

Arena football

Arena football is a variety of gridiron football played by the Arena Football League . It is a proprietary game, the rights to which are owned by Gridiron Enterprises, and is played indoors on a smaller field than American or Canadian outdoor football, resulting in a faster and higher-scoring game....

2011^
Indoor Football League

Indoor Football League

The Indoor Football League began in 1999 as an offshoot of the troubled Professional Indoor Football League. Keary Ecklund, the owner of the Green Bay Bombers and Madison Mad Dogs, left the PIFL after its first, financially-troubled, season to start his own league. Unlike the PIFL, the IFL was an...

Allen Event Center

^- Indicates year team relocated to the area

Division I college athletics

School
City
Nickname
Conference


University of North Texas

University of North Texas

The University of North Texas is a public institution of higher education and research in Denton. Founded in 1890, UNT is part of the University of North Texas System. As of the fall of 2010, the University of North Texas, Denton campus, had a certified enrollment of 36,067...

Denton

Denton, Texas

The city of Denton is the county seat of Denton County, Texas in the United States. Its population was 119,454 according to the 2010 U.S. Census, making it the eleventh largest city in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex...

Mean Green

North Texas Mean Green

North Texas Mean Green is the team name used for both men's and women's intercollegiate athletic teams that play for the University of North Texas in Denton, Texas....

Sun Belt

Sun Belt Conference

The Sun Belt Conference is a college athletic conference that has been affiliated with the NCAA's Division I since 1976. Its football teams participate in the Division I Football Bowl Subdivision , the higher of two levels of Division I football competition . The Sun Belt has member institutions...

University of Texas at Arlington

University of Texas at Arlington

The University of Texas at Arlington is a public research university located in Arlington, Texas, United States. The campus is situated southwest of downtown Arlington, and is located in the Dallas–Fort Worth metropolitan area. The university was founded in 1895 and served primarily a military...

Arlington

Arlington, Texas

Arlington is a city in Tarrant County, Texas within the Dallas–Fort Worth metropolitan area. According to the 2010 census results, the city had a population of 365,438, making it the third largest municipality in the Metroplex...

Mavericks
Southland

Southland Conference

The Southland Conference is a college athletic conference which operates in the south central United States. It participates in the NCAA's Division I for all sports; for football, it participates in the Division I Football Championship Subdivision...

Southern Methodist University

Southern Methodist University

Southern Methodist University is a private university in Dallas, Texas, United States. Founded in 1911 by the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, SMU operates campuses in Dallas, Plano, and Taos, New Mexico. SMU is owned by the South Central Jurisdiction of the United Methodist Church...

University Park

University Park, Texas

University Park is a city in Dallas County, Texas, United States, and a inner suburb of Dallas. The population was 23,324 at the 2000 census. The city is home to Southern Methodist University. Like its neighbor, Highland Park, it is a city partially surrounded by the municipality of Dallas...

Mustangs

SMU Mustangs

The SMU Mustangs is the name of the athletic teams representing Southern Methodist University. The Mustangs participate in the NCAA's Division I as a member of Conference USA. In 2005, SMU accepted an invitation to the Western Division of Conference USA, and left the Western Athletic Conference...

Conference USA

Conference USA

Conference USA, officially abbreviated C-USA, is a college athletic conference whose member institutions are located within the Southern United States. The conference participates in the NCAA's Division I in all sports...

Texas Christian University

Texas Christian University

Texas Christian University is a private, coeducational university located in Fort Worth, Texas, United States and founded in 1873. TCU is affiliated with, but not governed by, the Disciples of Christ...

Fort Worth
Horned Frogs

TCU Horned Frogs

The TCU Horned Frogs are the athletic teams that represent Texas Christian University, consisting of 18 varsity teams. The "horned frog" nickname and mascot refer to the Texas horned lizard, as known as the "horned frog". The women's athletics teams are often referred to often as the Lady Frogs...

Mountain West

Mountain West Conference

The Mountain West Conference , popularly known as the Mountain West, is the youngest of the college athletic conferences affiliated with the NCAA’s Division I FBS . The MWC officially began operations in July 1999...

*


(*) TCU is moving to the Big 12 Conference

Big 12 Conference

The Big 12 Conference is a college athletic conference of ten schools located in the Central United States, with its headquarters located in Las Colinas, a community in the Dallas, Texas suburb of Irving...

 effective July 1, 2012.

Sports events hosted

Event
Sport
Year(s)
Venue



Red River Rivalry

Red River Rivalry

The Red River Rivalry, commonly known as the OU-Texas Game or Texas-OU Game, is an American college football rivalry game played annually by the Oklahoma Sooners football team of the University of Oklahoma and the Texas Longhorns football team of the University of Texas. The series is considered...

College Football

College football

College football refers to American football played by teams of student athletes fielded by American universities, colleges, and military academies, or Canadian football played by teams of student athletes fielded by Canadian universities...

1912–present
Cotton Bowl

Cotton Bowl (stadium)

The Cotton Bowl is a stadium which opened in 1929 and became known as "The House That Doak Built" due to the immense crowds that former SMU running back Doak Walker drew to the stadium during his college career in the late 1940s. Originally known as Fair Park Stadium, it is located in Fair Park,...

Battle for the Iron Skillet

Battle for the Iron Skillet

The Battle for the Iron Skillet is the name of the college football rivalry between the Southern Methodist University Mustangs and the Texas Christian University Horned Frogs. The campuses are located 40 miles apart in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex...

College Football

College football

College football refers to American football played by teams of student athletes fielded by American universities, colleges, and military academies, or Canadian football played by teams of student athletes fielded by Canadian universities...

1915–present
Cotton Bowl

Cotton Bowl (stadium)

The Cotton Bowl is a stadium which opened in 1929 and became known as "The House That Doak Built" due to the immense crowds that former SMU running back Doak Walker drew to the stadium during his college career in the late 1940s. Originally known as Fair Park Stadium, it is located in Fair Park,...

, Amon G. Carter Stadium

Amon G. Carter Stadium

Amon G. Carter Stadium is an open-air football stadium on the campus of Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas. It is the home stadium of the TCU Horned Frogs football team. It was named after Amon G...

, Ownby Stadium

Ownby Stadium

Ownby Stadium was a stadium in the University Park neighborhood of Dallas, Texas. It was the home of the Southern Methodist University Mustang football team.Named for Jordon Ownby, the stadium was built at the south end of the campus...

, Texas Stadium

Texas Stadium

Texas Stadium was a football stadium in Irving, Texas, a suburb of Dallas. The stadium opened on September 17, 1971.Built to replace the aging Cotton Bowl, it was the home field of the NFL's Dallas Cowboys, and had a seating capacity of 65,675...

, Ford Stadium

Gerald J. Ford Stadium

Gerald J. Ford Stadium is a stadium in University Park, Texas, one of the two "Park Cities" that form an enclave within the city limits of Dallas. The stadium is used primarily for football, and it is home to the Southern Methodist University Mustangs and is frequently used for local high school...

PGA Championship

PGA Championship

The PGA Championship is an annual golf tournament conducted by the PGA of America as part of the PGA Tour. It is one of the four major championships in men's professional golf, and is the golf season's final major, usually played in mid-August, customarily four weeks after The Open Championship...

Golf

Professional Golfers' Association of America

Founded in 1916, the Professional Golfers' Association of America is headquartered in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, and is made up of more than 28,000 men and women golf professional members...

1927
Cedarcrest Golf Course

AT&T Cotton Bowl Classic
College Football

College football

College football refers to American football played by teams of student athletes fielded by American universities, colleges, and military academies, or Canadian football played by teams of student athletes fielded by Canadian universities...

1937–present
Cotton Bowl

Cotton Bowl (stadium)

The Cotton Bowl is a stadium which opened in 1929 and became known as "The House That Doak Built" due to the immense crowds that former SMU running back Doak Walker drew to the stadium during his college career in the late 1940s. Originally known as Fair Park Stadium, it is located in Fair Park,...

, Cowboys Stadium

U.S. Open

U.S. Open (golf)

The United States Open Championship, commonly known as the U.S. Open, is the annual open golf tournament of the United States. It is the second of the four major championships in golf, and is on the official schedule of both the PGA Tour and the European Tour...

Golf

Professional Golfers' Association of America

Founded in 1916, the Professional Golfers' Association of America is headquartered in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, and is made up of more than 28,000 men and women golf professional members...

1941
Colonial Country Club

Byron Nelson Golf Classic
Golf

Professional Golfers' Association of America

Founded in 1916, the Professional Golfers' Association of America is headquartered in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, and is made up of more than 28,000 men and women golf professional members...

1944–present
Multiple courses in Dallas

Colonial National Invitational

Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial

The Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial is a regular golf tournament on the PGA Tour. It has been played annually in May in Fort Worth, Texas on the course at the Colonial Country Club. It is one of five invitational tournaments held on the PGA Tour...

Golf

Professional Golfers' Association of America

Founded in 1916, the Professional Golfers' Association of America is headquartered in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, and is made up of more than 28,000 men and women golf professional members...

1946–present
Colonial Country Club

Pro Bowl

Pro Bowl

In professional American football, the Pro Bowl is the all-star game of the National Football League . Since the merger with the rival American Football League in 1970, it has been officially called the AFC–NFC Pro Bowl, matching the top players in the American Football Conference against those...

Football

American football

American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...

1973
Texas Stadium

Texas Stadium

Texas Stadium was a football stadium in Irving, Texas, a suburb of Dallas. The stadium opened on September 17, 1971.Built to replace the aging Cotton Bowl, it was the home field of the NFL's Dallas Cowboys, and had a seating capacity of 65,675...

The Players Championship

The Players Championship

The Players Championship is an annual golf tournament on the PGA Tour.Originally known as the Tournament Players Championship, the inaugural event in 1974 was played at Atlanta Country Club in Marietta, Georgia before moving to the Colonial Country Club in Fort Worth, Texas in 1975 and Inverrary...

Golf

Professional Golfers' Association of America

Founded in 1916, the Professional Golfers' Association of America is headquartered in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, and is made up of more than 28,000 men and women golf professional members...

1975
Colonial Country Club

Dallas Grand Prix

Dallas Grand Prix

The Dallas Grand Prix was a round of the Formula One World Championship in 1984 before becoming a round of the American Trans-Am Series in 1988.Originally the race was run at the Fair Park street circuit, before moving to nearby Addison in 1989...

Auto Racing

Formula One

Formula One, also known as Formula 1 or F1 and referred to officially as the FIA Formula One World Championship, is the highest class of single seater auto racing sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile . The "formula" designation in the name refers to a set of rules with which...

1984–1996
Fair Park

Fair Park

Dallas Fair Park is a recreational and educational complex located in Dallas, Texas . The complex is registered as a Dallas Landmark, National Historic Landmark and is home to nine museums, six performance facilities, a lagoon, and the largest Ferris wheel in North America...

, Addison

Addison, Texas

Addison is a city in Dallas County, Texas . The population was 14,166 at the 2000 census, and 15,737 according to a 2009 estimate. Addison is a northern suburb of Dallas...

, Reunion Arena

Reunion Arena

Reunion Arena was an indoor arena, in the Reunion district of downtown Dallas, Texas . It held 18,293 for basketball and 17,001 for ice hockey.It was demolished in November 2009 and the site was cleared by the end of the year.-History:...

NBA All-Star Game
Basketball

Basketball

Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...

1986
Reunion Arena

Reunion Arena

Reunion Arena was an indoor arena, in the Reunion district of downtown Dallas, Texas . It held 18,293 for basketball and 17,001 for ice hockey.It was demolished in November 2009 and the site was cleared by the end of the year.-History:...

NCAA Men's Final Four
Basketball

College basketball

College basketball most often refers to the USA basketball competitive governance structure established by the National Collegiate Athletic Association . Basketball in the NCAA is divided into three divisions: Division I, Division II and Division III....

1986, 2014
Reunion Arena

Reunion Arena

Reunion Arena was an indoor arena, in the Reunion district of downtown Dallas, Texas . It held 18,293 for basketball and 17,001 for ice hockey.It was demolished in November 2009 and the site was cleared by the end of the year.-History:...

, Cowboys Stadium

U.S. Women's Open

United States Women's Open Championship (golf)

The United States Women's Open Golf Championship, one of thirteen national championships conducted by the United States Golf Association , is one of the LPGA's major championships along with the LPGA Championship, the Women's British Open, and the Kraft Nabisco Championship...

Golf

LPGA

The LPGA, in full the Ladies Professional Golf Association, is an American organization for female professional golfers. The organization, whose headquarters is in Daytona Beach, Florida, is best known for running the LPGA Tour, a series of weekly golf tournaments for elite female golfers from...

1991
Colonial Country Club

FIFA World Cup Preliminaries

1994 FIFA World Cup

The 1994 FIFA World Cup, the 15th staging of the FIFA World Cup, was held in nine cities across the United States from June 17 to July 17, 1994. The United States was chosen as the host by FIFA on July 4, 1988...

Soccer
1994
Cotton Bowl

Cotton Bowl (stadium)

The Cotton Bowl is a stadium which opened in 1929 and became known as "The House That Doak Built" due to the immense crowds that former SMU running back Doak Walker drew to the stadium during his college career in the late 1940s. Originally known as Fair Park Stadium, it is located in Fair Park,...

MLB All-Star Game
Baseball

Baseball

Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot diamond...

1995
Rangers Ballpark in Arlington

Samsung 500
Auto Racing

NASCAR

The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing is a family-owned and -operated business venture that sanctions and governs multiple auto racing sports events. It was founded by Bill France Sr. in 1947–48. As of 2009, the CEO for the company is Brian France, grandson of the late Bill France Sr...

1997–present
Texas Motor Speedway

Texas Motor Speedway

Texas Motor Speedway is a speedway located in the northernmost portion of the U.S. city of Fort Worth, Texas – the portion located in Denton County, Texas....

Bombardier Learjet 550
Auto Racing
1997–present
Texas Motor Speedway

Texas Motor Speedway

Texas Motor Speedway is a speedway located in the northernmost portion of the U.S. city of Fort Worth, Texas – the portion located in Denton County, Texas....

Big 12 Championship Game
College Football

College football

College football refers to American football played by teams of student athletes fielded by American universities, colleges, and military academies, or Canadian football played by teams of student athletes fielded by Canadian universities...

2001, 2009

2009 Big 12 Championship Game

The 2009 Dr. Pepper Big 12 Championship Game was held on December 5, 2009 at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas. The divisional winners from the Big 12 Conference squared off in the 14th edition of the game. The Texas Longhorns represented the South Division and the Nebraska Cornhuskers...

, 2010

2010 Big 12 Championship Game

The 2010 Big 12 Championship Game was played at 7:00 p.m. on Saturday, December 4, 2010, at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas to determine the 2010 football champion of the Big 12 Conference. It was the final championship game for the conference as two members of the Big 12 had announced their...

Texas Stadium

Texas Stadium

Texas Stadium was a football stadium in Irving, Texas, a suburb of Dallas. The stadium opened on September 17, 1971.Built to replace the aging Cotton Bowl, it was the home field of the NFL's Dallas Cowboys, and had a seating capacity of 65,675...

, Cowboys Stadium

Bell Helicopter Armed Forces Bowl

Armed Forces Bowl

The Bell Helicopter Armed Forces Bowl is an annual postseason college football bowl game that was inaugurated in 2003 as the Fort Worth Bowl under corporate sponsorship of PlainsCapital Bank. In 2005, the game was without corporate sponsorship...

College Football

College football

College football refers to American football played by teams of student athletes fielded by American universities, colleges, and military academies, or Canadian football played by teams of student athletes fielded by Canadian universities...

2003–present
Amon G. Carter Stadium

Amon G. Carter Stadium

Amon G. Carter Stadium is an open-air football stadium on the campus of Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas. It is the home stadium of the TCU Horned Frogs football team. It was named after Amon G...

Breeders' Cup Classic

Breeders' Cup Classic

The Breeders' Cup Classic is a Grade I Weight for Age thoroughbred horse race for 3 year olds and older run at a distance of 1¼ miles on dirt. It is held annually at a different racetrack as part of the Breeders' Cup World Championships...

Horse Racing

Horse racing

Horse racing is an equestrian sport that has a long history. Archaeological records indicate that horse racing occurred in ancient Babylon, Syria, and Egypt. Both chariot and mounted horse racing were events in the ancient Greek Olympics by 648 BC...

2004
Lone Star Park

Lone Star Park

Lone Star Park is a horse racing track located in Grand Prairie, Texas.-History:Lone Star Park opened in 1997. The track offers separate meets for Thoroughbred racing and Quarter Horse racing. In October 2002, Magna Entertainment Corp. , based in Aurora, Ontario, leased the facility and acquired...

Dickies 500

Dickies 500

The AAA Texas 500 is a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series stock car race held at the Texas Motor Speedway in Fort Worth, Texas, USA. The inaugural race took place on November 6, 2005...

Auto Racing

NASCAR

The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing is a family-owned and -operated business venture that sanctions and governs multiple auto racing sports events. It was founded by Bill France Sr. in 1947–48. As of 2009, the CEO for the company is Brian France, grandson of the late Bill France Sr...

2005–present
Texas Motor Speedway

Texas Motor Speedway

Texas Motor Speedway is a speedway located in the northernmost portion of the U.S. city of Fort Worth, Texas – the portion located in Denton County, Texas....

MLS Cup

MLS Cup

The MLS Cup is the championship match of Major League Soccer, the highest tier of professional soccer in the United States and Canada. As the final match of the MLS Cup playoffs, the winner is crowned the season champion in the same manner as other North American sports leagues...

Soccer
2005

MLS Cup 2005

The 2005 MLS Cup was the championship game of the 2005 Major League Soccer season. It was played on November 13, 2005 at the new soccer-specific stadium, Pizza Hut Park in Frisco, Texas. In a rematch of the 2002 final, the Los Angeles Galaxy again beat the New England Revolution 1-0 in overtime,...

, 2006

MLS Cup 2006

The 2006 MLS Cup was the championship game of the 2006 Major League Soccer season, played on November 12, 2006 at Pizza Hut Park in Frisco, Texas between the New England Revolution and the Houston Dynamo. Houston won 4-3 on penalty kicks, after a 1-1 draw following extra time...

Pizza Hut Park

Pizza Hut Park

Pizza Hut Park is a soccer-specific stadium with a 21,193-seat capacity, built and owned by the city of Frisco, Texas. Its primary tenant is Major League Soccer team FC Dallas, which relocated from the Cotton Bowl in central Dallas to the fast-growing suburb...

NHL All-Star Game

55th National Hockey League All-Star Game

The 55th National Hockey League All-Star Game was held in Dallas, Texas, on January 24, 2007. The Western Conference was victorious, defeating the Eastern Conference 12–9...

Hockey

Hockey

Hockey is a family of sports in which two teams play against each other by trying to maneuver a ball or a puck into the opponent's goal using a hockey stick.-Etymology:...

2007
American Airlines Center

American Airlines Center

The American Airlines Center is a multi-purpose arena, located in the Victory Park neighborhood, near downtown Dallas, Texas.It is home to the Dallas Mavericks of the NBA, and the Dallas Stars of the NHL....

CONCACAF Gold Cup

2009 CONCACAF Gold Cup

The 2009 CONCACAF Gold Cup was the tenth edition of the Gold Cup competition, and the twentieth association football championship of North America, Central America and the Caribbean . It was contested from 3 July to 26 July 2009 in the United States. This competition was the fourth tournament...

Soccer
2009
Cowboys Stadium

Cowboys Classic

Cowboys Classic

The Cowboys Classic is an annual college football game played on the opening weekend of the college football season in Arlington, Texas at Cowboys Stadium.-Game results :Winners are listed in bold...

College Football

College football

College football refers to American football played by teams of student athletes fielded by American universities, colleges, and military academies, or Canadian football played by teams of student athletes fielded by Canadian universities...

2009–present
Cowboys Stadium

Southwest Classic
College Football

College football

College football refers to American football played by teams of student athletes fielded by American universities, colleges, and military academies, or Canadian football played by teams of student athletes fielded by Canadian universities...

2009–present
Cowboys Stadium

NBA All-Star Game
Basketball

Basketball

Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...

2010
Cowboys Stadium

TicketCity Bowl
College Football

College football

College football refers to American football played by teams of student athletes fielded by American universities, colleges, and military academies, or Canadian football played by teams of student athletes fielded by Canadian universities...

2010–present
Cotton Bowl

Cotton Bowl (stadium)

The Cotton Bowl is a stadium which opened in 1929 and became known as "The House That Doak Built" due to the immense crowds that former SMU running back Doak Walker drew to the stadium during his college career in the late 1940s. Originally known as Fair Park Stadium, it is located in Fair Park,...

Manny Pacquiao vs. Antonio Margarito

Manny Pacquiao vs. Antonio Margarito

Manny Pacquiao vs. Antonio Margarito, billed as World Super Welterweight Championship, was a Super Welterweight fight for the WBC Super Welterweight championship. The bout was held on November 13, 2010, at Cowboys Stadium, in Arlington, Texas, United States...

Professional Boxing

Professional Boxing

Professional boxing, or prizefighting, emerged in the early twentieth century as boxing gradually attained legitimacy and became a regulated, sanctioned sport. Professional boxing bouts are fought for a purse which is divided among the fighters and promoters as determined by contract...

November 13, 2010
Cowboys Stadium

CONCACAF Gold Cup

2011 CONCACAF Gold Cup

The 2011 CONCACAF Gold Cup was the 11th edition of the CONCACAF Gold Cup competition and 21th CONCACAF regional championship overall in CONCACAF's fifty years of existence...

Soccer
2011
Cowboys Stadium

NCAA Division I Football Championship
College football

College football

College football refers to American football played by teams of student athletes fielded by American universities, colleges, and military academies, or Canadian football played by teams of student athletes fielded by Canadian universities...

2011–2013
Pizza Hut Park

Pizza Hut Park

Pizza Hut Park is a soccer-specific stadium with a 21,193-seat capacity, built and owned by the city of Frisco, Texas. Its primary tenant is Major League Soccer team FC Dallas, which relocated from the Cotton Bowl in central Dallas to the fast-growing suburb...

Super Bowl XLV

Super Bowl XLV

Super Bowl XLV was an American football game between the American Football Conference champion Pittsburgh Steelers and the National Football Conference champion Green Bay Packers to decide the National Football League champion for the 2010 season. The game was held at Cowboys Stadium in...

Football

American football

American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...

2011
Cowboys Stadium

See also

• Dallas/Fort Worth Area Tourism Council
  DFW Area Tourism Council
  Formed to jointly market the entire Dallas/Fort Worth area as a single destination, the Dallas/Fort Worth Area Tourism Council , a not-for-profit organization, has banded together all segments of the tourism industry...
  
  
• Greater Dallas Korean American Chamber of Commerce
  Greater Dallas Korean American Chamber of Commerce
  Greater Dallas Korean American Chamber of Commerce is a chamber of commerce that represents Korean-American businesses and institutions in Koreatown, Dallas, Texas and in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex....
  
  
• Geology of the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex
  Geology of the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex
  Dallas–Fort Worth sits above Cretaceous-aged strata, dates ranging from ~145-65 Ma . These Cretaceous-aged sediments lie above the eroded Ouachita Mountains and the Fort Worth Basin, which was formed by the Ouachita Orogeny. Going from west to east in the DFW Metroplex and down towards the Gulf...
  
  
• Texaplex
  Texaplex
  The texaplex refers to the highly populated triangular region in Texas that is outlined by the Dallas–Fort Worth Metroplex in the north down to the Houston metropolitan area, over to San Antonio and Austin, Texas and that contains a vast majority of the state's population...
  
  
• United States metropolitan area
  United States metropolitan area
  In the United States a metropolitan statistical area is a geographical region with a relatively high population density at its core and close economic ties throughout the area. Such regions are not legally incorporated as a city or town would be, nor are they legal administrative divisions like...
  
  

Official sites

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Additional information

• 77,000 Dallas Homes for Sale and Dallas Real Estate
• Fort Worth Star-Telegram
  Fort Worth Star-Telegram
  The Fort Worth Star-Telegram is a major U.S. daily newspaper serving Fort Worth and the western half of the North Texas area known as the Metroplex. Its area of domination is checked by its main rival, The Dallas Morning News, which is published from the eastern half of the Metroplex. It is owned...
  
   - major Fort Worth newspaper
• The Dallas Morning News
  The Dallas Morning News
  The Dallas Morning News is the major daily newspaper serving the Dallas, Texas area, with a circulation of 264,459 subscribers, the Audit Bureau of Circulations reported in September 2010...
  
  - major Dallas newspaper
• Metroplex Daily
• Dallas Fort Worth Travel Guide
• Downtown Fort Worth news and information
• Satirical DFW news and humor
• TourTexas.com: DFW travel and entertainment information guide
• Dallas-Fort Worth Metro photoblog
• DFW Town Guide
• DFW Amatuer Radio information

Transportation

• DART (Dallas Area Rapid Transit) - Dallas Area Bus and Rail Service
• The "T" (Fort Worth Transportation Authority) - Fort Worth Bus Service
• TRE (Trinity Railway Express) - Rail Service
• DCTA (Denton County Transportation Authority) - Denton/Highland Village/Lewisville Bus Service