Cedar Hill, Texas Cedar Hill, Texas Cedar Hill water fortress Cedar Hill water fortress Location of Cedar Hill in Dallas County, Texas Location of Cedar Hill in Dallas County, Texas Website City of Cedar Hill, TX Cedar Hill is a town/city in Dallas and Ellis counties in the U.S.
It is positioned approximately 16 miles (26 km) southwest of downtown Dallas and is situated along the easterly shore of Joe Pool Lake and Cedar Hill State Park.
Cedar Hill is a suburb of Dallas and is part of the Best Southwest area, which includes the close-by cities of De - Soto, Duncanville, and Lancaster.
Early in its history, Cedar Hill lay along a branch of the Chisholm Trail and served as the temporary governmental center of county of Dallas County.
6.1.2 Cedar Hill State Park 197 families and 184 single men settled in what is now Cedar Hill, making it the biggest settlement in the region at the time. Cedar Hill presently has 5 homes listed on the National Park Service's National Register of Historic Places, 4 historical structures on the Texas Historical Commission's list of Recorded Texas Historic Landmarks, and 2 graveyards designated as "Historical Texas Cemeteries" by the Texas Historical Commission, one of which is believed to be the earliest integrated cemetery in Dallas County. On October 8, 1932, the then First State Bank of Cedar Hill was robbed by Raymond Hamilton, a sidekick of bank robbers Bonnie and Clyde.
The building where the robbery took place still stands in Historic Downtown Cedar Hill.
In March 2008, the building was designated as a historic resource by the City of Cedar Hill and bears an official medallion indicating its significance. Cedar Hill is positioned at 32 35 18 N 96 56 50 W (32.588454, -96.947325). Next to metros/cities are Grand Prairie to the southwest, west, and northwest; Dallas to the north; Duncanville to the north and northeast; De - Soto to the northeast and east; Glenn Heights and Ovilla to the southeast; and Midlothian to the south.
Most of the town/city of Cedar Hill is in Dallas County, but a small southern section of the town/city spills over into Ellis County.
It is sometimes referred to as the "hill nation of Dallas" (in comparison to the "hill country" encircling Austin and San Antonio).
As of 2010, Cedar Hill had a populace of 45,028.
The demographics of Cedar Hill's most well-to-do neighborhood, Lake Ridge (a master prepared community), has changed in step with the town/city as a whole.
The Cedar Hill Government Center, which homes the Cedar Hill ISD offices Cedar Hill High School Most of the town/city is served by the Cedar Hill Independent School District.
The Cedar Hill ISD portion is served by Cedar Hill High School.
Life School, a enhance charter school, operates the K-4 Cedar Hill campus. Trinity Christian School Cedar Hill (affiliated with a small-town Assemblies of God church) also serves the area.
In the early 1990s, the populace of Cedar Hill was increasing quickly and people began to be concerned about the need for orderly economic development.
An economic evolution advisory committee was formed by the town/city council that surveyed the inhabitants to see how they envisioned Cedar Hill's future.
In January 1994 voters allowed a special revenue tax to fund the economic evolution efforts, and the Cedar Hill EDC was incorporated in September 1994.
A several years later, in 2003, Cedar Village, 70-acre (280,000 m2), was assembled to include linking a new town/city hall and historic Main Street precinct to retail, residentiary, office and entertainment developments.
Hillside Village (formerly Uptown Village at Cedar Hill), Cedar Hill's upscale lifestyle center, opened in March 2008.
Hillside Village is bound by Highway 67 to the east, FM 1382 on the south, Pleasant Run Road on the north, and Cedar Hill Road on the west.
The plan is a specific region plan dedicated to transforming Cedar Hill's City Center into a walkable, mixed-use destination that will have a sense of place.
Cedar Hill has set aside 20% of its territory for parks and green space. 3,000 acres of nature reserves and preserves are positioned in Cedar Hill including Dogwood Canyon and Cedar Hill State Park. Cedar Hill State Park Cedar Hill State Park opened in 1991, and is positioned on the northeast corner of Joe Pool Lake.
The Cedar Hill State Park has approximately 200 species of birds and is home to many other Neotropical migrants.
Cedar Hill rests on the edge of Joe Pool Lake.
Joe Pool Lake can be accessed through the Cedar Hill State Park or any other of the three parks positioned along its borders. Cedar Hill's sports complexes collectively include 21 baseball and softball fields, 18 soccer pitches, 7 basketball courts, 6 tennis courts, 4 football fields, and a 36-hole disc golf course. In the 1950s, Cedar Hill became home to what was then known as Hill Tower.
At 880 feet above sea level, Cedar Hill's altitude made it a desirable locale for installation of the broadcast antennas.
Today, Cedar Hill has the highest concentration of radio and tv communication antennas in the county with 14 towers. Perhaps because of the rocky surface and hilly terrain of the Cedar Hill area, the prairie remnants at Penn Farm railwayand are maintained today. Penn Farm Agricultural History Center was created from the remnants of Penn Farm, which date back to the 1850s. The center is positioned inside Cedar Hill State Park.
It was designed to educate citizens about early life in Cedar Hill and to demonstrate how human invention rendered the greatest impact on the tallgrass prairie once prominent in this area.
Dogwood Canyon Audubon Center was assembled as a partnership between Cedar Hill and the National Audubon Society.
In 2015, Dogwood Canyon Audubon Center partnered with the Cedar Hill Independent School District on a study linking outside science education to academic performance.
Cedar Hill manages and maintains 32 park properties including 6 improve parks, 17 neighborhood parks, 1 special purpose park, 3 nature preserves, and 4 greenbelts. Cedar Hill presently has over 45 miles of multi-purpose, integrated trails and bikeways. Most recent additions include Pleasant Run Trail, Lake Ridge Hike and Bike Trail, and Red Oak Creek Trail. DORBA Trail is the longest trail positioned in Cedar Hill State Park and is a shared use hike and bike trail.
The trail was created through the accomplishments of the Dallas Off-Road Bicycle Association, hence the trail name, and the Cedar Hill State Park management.
According to the Koppen Climate Classification system, Cedar Hill has a humid subtropical climate, abbreviated "Cfa" on climate maps. This type of weather is typical throughout the densely populated parts of the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex.
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