Dallas, Texas City of Dallas Top to bottom, left to right: Downtown Dallas skyline, Old Red Museum, North - Park Center, Dallas City Hall, Dallas Museum of Art, Winspear Opera House, Perot Museum of Nature and Science, State Fair of Texas at Fair Park, Dallas Union Station, the Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden, and the American Airlines Center Top to bottom, left to right: Downtown Dallas skyline, Old Red Museum, North - Park Center, Dallas City Hall, Dallas Museum of Art, Winspear Opera House, Perot Museum of Nature and Science, State Fair of Texas at Fair Park, Dallas Union Station, the Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden, and the American Airlines Center Flag of Dallas, Texas Flag Official seal of Dallas, Texas Location of Dallas in Dallas County and the U.S.
Location of Dallas in Dallas County and the U.S.
Location of Dallas in the adjoining United States County Dallas Counties Dallas, Collin, Denton, Rockwall, Kaufman Body Dallas City Council Dallas (/ d l s/) is a primary city in the U.S.
It is the most crowded city in the Dallas Fort Worth metroplex, the fourth most crowded urbane region in the United States.
The bulk of the town/city is in Dallas County, of which it is the county seat; however, sections of the town/city are positioned in Collin, Denton, Kaufman, and Rockwall counties.
The town/city is the biggest economic center of the 12-county Dallas Fort Worth metroplex urbane region (commonly referred to as DFW), which had a populace of 7,246,231 as of July 1, 2016, representing expansion in excess of 807,000 citizens since the 2010 census.
In 2013, the urbane region led the country with the biggest year-over-year increase in employment and advanced to turn into the fourth-largest employment center in the country (behind New York City, Los Angeles and Chicago) with more than three million non-farm jobs. As of January 2017, the urbane job count has increased to 3,558,200 jobs. The city's economy is primarily based on banking, commerce, telecommunications, technology, energy, healthcare and medical research, and transit and logistics.
Located in North Texas, Dallas is the chief core of the biggest urbane region in the South and the biggest inland urbane region in the United States that lacks any navigable link to the sea. Dallas and close-by Fort Worth were advanced due to the assembly of primary barns lines through the region allowing access to cotton, cattle, and later petroleum in North and East Texas.
The assembly of the Interstate Highway System reinforced Dallas' eminence as a transit hub with four primary interstate highways converging in the city, and a fifth interstate loop around it.
Dallas advanced as a strong industrialized and financial center, and a primary inland port, due to the convergence of primary barns lines, interstate highways, and the assembly of Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, one of the biggest and busiest airports in the world. 9.1.1 Colleges and universities in the Dallas town/city limits 9.1.2 Colleges and universities near Dallas Preceded by thousands of years of varying indigenous cultures, the Caddo citizens inhabited the Dallas region before Spanish colonists claimed the territory of Texas in the 18th century as a part of the Viceroyalty of New Spain.
In 1819, the Adams-Onis Treaty between the United States and Spain defined the Red River as the northern boundary of New Spain, officially placing the future locale of Dallas well inside Spanish territory. The region remained under Spanish rule until 1821, when Mexico declared independence from Spain, and the region was considered part of the Mexican state of Coahuila y Tejas.
In 1839, Warren Angus Ferris surveyed the region around present-day Dallas.
The Republic of Texas was took in by the United States in 1845 and Dallas County was established the following year.
Dallas was formally incorporated as a town/city on February 2, 1856.
With the assembly of barns s, Dallas became a company and trading center and was booming by the end of the 19th century.
It marked the eminence of Dallas as a city.
In 1921, the Mexican president Alvaro Obregon along with the former revolutionary general visited downtown Dallas' Mexican Park in Little Mexico, the small park was positioned on the corner of Akard and Caruth Street, site of the current Fairmount Hotel. The small neighborhood of Little Mexico was home to the Hispanic populace that had come to Dallas due to factors like the American Dream, better living conditions or the Mexican Revolution. Kennedy was assassinated on Elm Street while his motorcade passed through Dealey Plaza in downtown Dallas.
On July 7, 2016, multiple shots were fired at a peaceful protest in downtown Dallas, held against the police killings of two black men from other states.
Dallas is the governmental center of county of Dallas County.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 385.8 square miles (999.3 km2), 340.5 square miles (881.9 km2) of it being territory and 45.3 square miles (117.4 km2) of it (11.75%) water. Dallas makes up one-fifth of the much larger urbanized region known as the Dallas Fort Worth Metroplex, in which one quarter of all Texans live.
See also: List of Dallas Landmarks and List of tallest buildings in Dallas Although some of Dallas' architecture dates from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, most of the notable architecture in the town/city is from the modernist and postmodernist eras.
Pei's Dallas City Hall and Morton H.
One architectural "hotbed" in the town/city is a stretch of historic homes along Swiss Avenue, which contains all shades and variants of architecture from Victorian to neoclassical. The Dallas Downtown Historic District protects a cross-section of Dallas commercial architecture from the 1880s to the 1940s.
Central Dallas is anchored by Downtown, the center of the city, along with Oak Lawn and Uptown, areas characterized by dense retail, restaurants, and eveninglife.
Downtown Dallas has a range of titled districts, including the West End Historic District, the Arts District, the Main Street District, Farmers Market District, the City Center company district, the Convention Center District, and the Reunion District.
"Hot spots" in this region include Uptown, Victory Park, Oak Lawn, Dallas Design District, Trinity Groves, Turtle Creek, Cityplace, Knox/Henderson, Greenville and West Village.
East Dallas is home to Deep Ellum, a trendy arts region close to Downtown, the homey Lakewood neighborhood (and adjoining areas, including Lakewood Heights, Wilshire Heights, Lower Greenville, Junius Heights, and Hollywood Heights/Santa Monica), historic Vickery Place and Bryan Place, and the architecturally momentous neighborhoods of Swiss Avenue and Munger Place.
In the northeast quadrant of the town/city is Lake Highlands, one of Dallas' most unified middle-class neighborhoods. South Dallas, a distinct neighborhood southeast of Downtown, lays claim to the Cedars, an eclectic artist hotbed, and Fair Park, home of the annual State Fair of Texas, held in late September and through mid-October. Southwest of Downtown lies Oak Cliff, a hilly region that has undergone gentrification in recent years, in neighborhoods such as the Bishop Arts District.
South Side Dallas is presently a prominent location for eveningly entertainment at the NYLO rooftop patio and lounge, The Cedars Social, and the famous nation bar Gilley's. The neighbourhood has undergone extensive evolution and improve integration.
Swampland and wetlands separating it from South Dallas will in the future be part of the Great Trinity Forest, a subsection of the city's Trinity River Project which is prepared to restore and preserve wetlands, newly appreciated for surrounding and flood control.
Dallas is surrounded by many suburbs; three enclaves are inside the town/city boundaries Cockrell Hill, Highland Park, and University Park Main article: Geology of the Dallas Fort Worth Metroplex Dallas and its encircling area are mostly flat; the town/city itself lies at elevations ranging from 450 to 550 feet (137 to 168 m).
The edge of the Austin Chalk Formation, a limestone escarpment (also known as the "White Rock Escarpment"), rises 230 feet (70 m) and runs roughly north-south through Dallas County.
Dallas, like many other cities, was established along a river.
Its path through Dallas is alongsideed by Interstate 35 - E along the Stemmons Corridor, then south alongside the portion of Downtown and past south Dallas and Pleasant Grove, where the river is alongsideed by Interstate 45 until it exits the town/city and heads southeast towards Houston.
Since it was rerouted in the late 1920s, the river has been little more than a drainage ditch inside a floodplain for a several miles above and below downtown Dallas, with a more normal course further upstream and downstream, but as Dallas began shifting towards postindustrial society, enhance outcry about the lack of beautiful and recreational use of the river ultimately gave way to the Trinity River Project, which was begun in the early 2000s and was scheduled to be instead of in the 2010s.
The universal region will reach for over 20 miles (32 km) in length inside the city, while the overall geographical territory area addressed by the Land Use Plan is approximately 44,000 acres (180 km2) in size about 20% of the territory area in Dallas.
The lake and encircling park is a prominent destination for boaters, rowers, joggers, and bikers, as well as visitors seeking peaceful respite from the town/city at the 66-acre (267,000 m2) Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden, positioned on the lake's easterly shore.
White Rock Creek feeds into White Rock Lake, and then exits on to the Trinity River southeast of downtown Dallas.
Trails along White Rock Creek are part of the extensive Dallas County Trails System.
Northeast of the town/city is Lake Ray Hubbard, a vast 22,745-acre (92 km2) reservoir positioned in an extension of Dallas surrounded by the suburbs of Garland, Rowlett, Rockwall, and Sunnyvale. To the west of the town/city is Mountain Creek Lake, once home to the Naval Air Station Dallas (Hensley Field) and a number of defense airplane manufacturers. North Lake, a small body of water in an extension of the town/city limits surrounded by Irving and Coppell, initially served as a water origin for a close-by power plant but is now being targeted for redevelopment as a recreational lake due to its adjacency to Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, a plan that the lake's neighboring metros/cities oppose. Dallas has a humid subtropical climate (Koppen climate classification: Cfa) that is characteristic of the Southern Plains of the United States.
Winters in Dallas have a normal daily average temperature in January of 47.0 F (8.3 C) but sharp swings in temperature as strong cold fronts known as "Blue Northers" pass through the Dallas region, forcing daytime highs below the 50 F (10 C) mark for a several days at a time and often between days with high temperatures above 80 F (27 C).
A several times each winter in Dallas, warm and humid air from the south will override cold, dry air, resulting in freezing precipitation or ice and causing disruptions in the town/city if the roads and highways turn into slick.
During this same span of 15 years,[specify] the temperature in the region has only twice dropped below 15 F ( 9 C), though it will generally fall below 20 F ( 7 C) in most (67%) years. In sum, extremes and variations in winter weather are more readily seen in Dallas and Texas as a whole than along the Pacific and Atlantic coasts, due to the state's locale in the interior of the North American continent.
The Dallas County Courthouse homes the Old Red Museum.
According to the American Lung Association, Dallas has the 12th highest air pollution among U.S.
Cities, ranking it behind Los Angeles and Houston. Much of the air pollution in Dallas and the encircling area comes from a hazardous materials incineration plant in the small town of Midlothian and from concrete installations in neighbouring Ellis County. The all-time record low temperature inside the town/city itself is 3 F ( 19 C), set on January 18, 1930, while the all-time record high is 113 F (45 C), set on June 26 and 27, 1980 amid the Heat Wave of 1980 at close-by Dallas Fort Worth Airport. The average daily low in Dallas is 57.4 F (14.1 C) and the average daily high is 76.9 F (24.9 C).
At the 2006 2010 American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, among the Hispanic population, 36.8% of Dallas was Mexican, 0.3% Puerto Rican, 0.2% Cuban and 4.3% other Hispanic or Latino. Dallas' populace was historically dominantly white (non-Hispanic caucasians made up 82.8% of the populace in 1930), but its populace has diversified due to immigration and "white flight" over the 20th century.
North Dallas is many enclaves of dominantly white, black and especially Hispanic residents.
The Russian-speaking populace of Dallas has continued to expanded in the zone of "American husbands-Russian wives".
In addition, Dallas and its suburbs are home to a large number of Asian inhabitants including those of Indian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Korean, Filipino, Japanese, and other heritage. There are also a momentous number of citizens from the Horn of Africa, immigrants from Ethiopia, Eritrea, and Somalia.
Enumeration American Community Survey data released in December 2013, 23 percent of Dallas County inhabitants were foreign-born, while 16 percent of Tarrant County inhabitants were foreign-born. Recognized for having the sixth biggest lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) populace in the nation, the Dallas urbane is widely noted for being home to a grow and diverse LGBT community. Throughout the year there are many well-established LGBT affairs held in the area, most prominently the annual Alan Ross Texas Freedom (Pride) Parade and Festival held every September since 1983 which draws tens of thousands from around the world. For decades, the Oak Lawn and Bishop Arts districts have been known as the epicenters of the LGBT improve in Dallas. Megachurches like First Baptist Dallas are common in the area.
According to a 2014 study by the Pew Research Center, Christianity is the most prevalently practiced religion in Dallas (78%). There is a large Protestant Christian influence in the Dallas community.
Methodist, Baptist, and Presbyterian churches are prominent in many neighborhoods and anchor two of the city's primary private universities (Southern Methodist University and Dallas Baptist University).
Dallas is also home to two evangelical seminaries, the Dallas Theological Seminary and Criswell College and many Bible schools including Christ For The Nations Institute.
The Catholic Church is also a momentous organization in the Dallas region and operates the University of Dallas, a liberal-arts college in the Dallas suburb of Irving.
The Cathedral Santuario de Guadalupe in the Arts District is home to the second-largest Catholic church membership in the United States and oversees over 70 churches in the Dallas Diocese.
The Society of Jesus operates the Jesuit College Preparatory School of Dallas.
Dallas is also home to three Eastern Orthodox Christian churches. The town/city of Dallas and Dallas County have more Catholic than Protestant residents, while the converse is usually true for the suburban areas of Dallas.
Dallas' Jewish populace of approximately 45,000 is the biggest of any town/city in Texas. Since the establishment of the city's first Jewish cemetery in 1854 and its first congregation (which would eventually be known as Temple Emanu-El) in 1873, Dallas Jews have been well represented among leaders in commerce, politics, and various experienced fields in Dallas and elsewhere.
See History of the Jews in Dallas, Texas for more information.
The Dallas Texas Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has twenty two stakes throughout Dallas and encircling suburbs. The Church assembled the Dallas Texas Temple, the first temple in Texas, in the town/city in 1984. There are a several Unitarian Universalist congregations, including First Unitarian Church of Dallas, established in 1903. Furthermore, a large Muslim improve exists in the north and northeastern portions of Dallas, as well as in the northern Dallas suburbs.
The earliest mosque in Texas is positioned in Denton, about 40 miles (64 km) north of Downtown Dallas.
The earliest mosque in Dallas is Masjid Al-Islam positioned just south of Downtown Dallas.
Numerous Buddhist temples dot the Metroplex, including The Buddhist Center of Dallas, Lien Hoa Vietnamese Temple of Irving, and Kadampa Meditation Center Texas and Wat Buddhamahamunee of Arlington.
After 15 years, this celebration has turn into a minor Dallas cultural tradition for the "spiritual but not religious" citizens of North Texas.
See also: List of companies in Dallas and List of shopping malls in the Dallas Fort Worth Metroplex Comerica Bank Tower, Comerica Bank's nationwide headquarters in Downtown Dallas In its beginnings, Dallas relied on farming, neighboring Fort Worth's Stockyards, and its prime locale on Native American trade routes to sustain itself.
Dallas' key to expansion came in 1873 with the building of multiple rail lines through the city.
As Dallas interval and technology developed, cotton became its boon and by 1900 Dallas was the biggest inland cotton market in the world, becoming a prestige in cotton gin machinery manufacturing.
By the early 1900s Dallas was a core for economic activeness all over the Southern United States and was chose in 1914 as the seat of the Eleventh Federal Reserve District.
By 1925 Texas churned out more than of the nation's cotton crop, with 31% of Texas cotton produced inside a 100-mile (160 km) radius of Dallas.
In the 1930s oil was identified east of Dallas near Kilgore, Texas.
Dallas' adjacency to the discernment put it immediately at the center of the nation's oil market.
The town/city is sometimes referred to as the heart of "Silicon Prairie" because of a high concentration of telecommunications companies in the region, the epicenter of which lies along the Telecom Corridor positioned in Richardson, a northern suburb of Dallas.
In the 1980s Dallas was a real estate hotbed, with the increasing urbane populace bringing with it a demand for new housing and office space.
Several of Downtown Dallas' biggest buildings are the fruit of this boom, but over-speculation, the savings and loan crisis and an petroleum bust brought the 80's building boom to an end for Dallas as well as its town/city sister Houston.
However, since the early 2000s the central core of Dallas has been appreciateing steady and momentous growth encompassing both repurposing of older commercial buildings in downtown Dallas into residentiary and hotel uses as well as the assembly of new office and residentiary towers.
The opening of Klyde Warren Park, assembled across Woodall Rodgers Freeway seamlessly connecting the central Dallas CBD to Uptown/Victory Park, has acted synergistically with the highly prosperous Dallas Arts District so that both have turn into catalysts for momentous new evolution in central Dallas.
The residentiary real estate market in the Dallas Fort Worth metroplex has not only been resilient but has once again returned to a boom status.
Dallas, and the DFW metro, continue to see strong demand for housing, apartment and office leasing, shopping center space, warehouse and industrialized space with overall job expansion remaining very robust.
Oil dependent metros/cities and regions have felt momentous effects from the downturn but Dallas expansion has continued unabated, strengthening in 2015.
Significant nationwide headquarters relocations to the region (as exemplified by Toyota's decision to leave California and establish its new North American command posts in the Dallas region) coupled with momentous expansions of county-wide offices for a range of corporations and along with business relocations to downtown Dallas are helping drive the current boom in the Dallas economy.
Dallas leads Texas' biggest cities in Forbes' 2015 ranking of "The Best Place for Business and Careers". Fortune Magazine's 2015 annual list of the Fortune 500 in America indicates the town/city of Dallas has 9 Fortune 500 companies, and the DFW region as a whole has 21, reflecting the strong expansion in the metro economy and up from 18 the year before. In 2007 08, Comerica Bank and AT&T positioned their command posts in Dallas.
Additional Fortune 500 companies headquartered in Dallas include Energy Transfer Equity, Holly - Frontier, Southwest Airlines, Tenet Healthcare, Texas Instruments, Dean Foods, Trinity Industries, and Energy Future Holdings.
In addition to its large number of businesses, Dallas has more shopping centers per capita than any other town/city in the United States and is also home to the second shopping center ever assembled in the United States, Highland Park Village, which opened in 1931. Dallas is home of the two other primary malls in North Texas, the Dallas Galleria and North - Park Center, which is the 2nd biggest mall in Texas.
In 2009 (with 14 billionaires) the town/city placed 6th around the world among metros/cities with the most billionaires. The ranking does not even take into account the 8 billionaires who live in the neighboring town/city of Fort Worth.
Dallas is presently the third most prominent destination for company travel in the United States, and the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center is one of the biggest and busiest meeting halls in the country, at over 1,000,000 square feet (93,000 m2), and the world's single-largest column-free exhibit hall. Stone Street Gardens is lined with bistros, pubs and restaurants connecting Main to Elm Streets in Downtown Dallas Famous products of the Dallas culinary scene include the frozen margarita. Fearing's restaurant at the Ritz-Carlton Dallas hotel in Uptown Dallas was titled the best hotel restaurant in the US for 2009 by Zagat Survey.
A number of nationally ranked steakhouses can be found in the Dallas area, including Bob's Steak & Chop House, presently ranked No.
Dallas Arts District.
The Winspear Opera House and the Meyerson Symphony Center in the Downtown Dallas Arts District The Perot Museum of Nature and Science in downtown Dallas The Arts District in the northern section of Downtown is home to a several arts venues and is the biggest adjoining arts precinct in the United States. Notable venues in the precinct include the Dallas Museum of Art, the Morton H.
Meyerson Symphony Center home to the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and Dallas Wind Symphony, The Trammell & Margaret Crow Collection of Asian Art, and the Nasher Sculpture Center.
Venues that are part of the AT&T Dallas Center for the Performing Arts include the Winspear Opera House home to the Dallas Opera and Texas Ballet Theater, the Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre home to the Dallas Theater Center and the Dallas Black Dance Theater, and City Performance Hall.
City Center District, next to the Arts District is home to the Dallas Contemporary.
Within this building, Southside on Lamar hosts the Janette Kennedy Gallery with rotating loggia exhibitions featuring many local, national, and global artists. Current attractions include Gilley's Dallas and Poor David's Pub. Dallas Mavericks owner and small-town entrepreneur Mark Cuban purchased territory along Lamar Avenue near Cedars Station in September 2005, and locals speculate that he is planning an entertainment complex for the site. Dallas has an Office of Cultural Affairs as a department of the town/city government.
The office is responsible for six cultural centers positioned throughout the city, funding for small-town artists and theaters, initiating enhance art projects, and running the city-owned classical airways broadcast WRR. The Los Angeles-class submarine USS Dallas (SSN-700) will turn into a exhibition ship positioned near the Trinity River after her decommissioning in September 2014.
The most notable event held in Dallas is the State Fair of Texas, which has been held annually at Fair Park since 1886.
The town/city also hosts the State Fair Classic and Heart of Dallas Bowl at the Cotton Bowl.
Other well-known celebrations in the region include a several Cinco de Mayo celebrations hosted by the city's large Mexican American population, and Saint Patrick's Day parade along Lower Greenville Avenue, Juneteenth festivities, Taste of Dallas, the Deep Ellum Arts Festival, the Greek Food Festival of Dallas, the annual Halloween event "The Wake" featuring lots of small-town art and music, and two annual affairs on Halloween include; a Halloween parade on Cedar Springs Road and a "Zombie Walk" held in Downtown Dallas in the Arts District.
Also, a several Omni hotels in the Dallas region host large affairs to welcome in the new year including murder mystery parties, rave inspired affairs, and other affairs.
Arts District, Dallas Dallas Baptist University Dallas Museum of Art Design District, Dallas Munger Place Historic District, Dallas Museum of Biblical Art (Dallas) Southfork Ranch as seen on Dallas (1978 TV series) and Dallas (2012 TV series) Swiss Avenue, Dallas historical precinct The Dallas-Fort Worth urbane region is home to six primary league sports teams: the Dallas Cowboys (National Football League), Dallas Mavericks (National Basketball Association), Texas Rangers (Major League Baseball), Dallas Stars (National Hockey League), FC Dallas (Major League Soccer), and Dallas Wings (Women's National Basketball Association) Dallas region major league sports squads Dallas Mavericks NBA Basketball American Airlines Center (19,200) 20,143 1980 1 NBA title 2011 Dallas Stars NHL Hockey American Airlines Center (18,500) 18,376 1993 1 Stanley Cup 1999 FC Dallas MLS Soccer Toyota Stadium (20,500) 16,816 1995 2 U.S.
Dallas Wings WNBA Basketball College Park Center (7,000) ---- 2015 3 WNBA titles 2003, 2006, 2008 (as the Detroit Shock) The Dallas Cowboys of the National Football League play in close-by Arlington, Texas.
Known widely as "America's Team", the Dallas Cowboys are financially the most valuable sports charter in the world, worth approximately 4 billion dollars. In 2009, the Cowboys relocated to their new 80,000-seat stadium in Arlington, which was the site of Super Bowl XLV. The Dallas Mavericks play at the American Airlines Center.
FC Dallas of Major League Soccer play in Frisco at Toyota Stadium (formerly FC Dallas Stadium and Pizza Hut Park), a stadium that opened in 2005. The team was originally called the Dallas Burn and used to play in the Cotton Bowl.
Previously, the Dallas Tornado played the North American Soccer League from 1968 to 1981.
The Dallas Sidekicks (2012) are an American experienced indoor soccer team based in Allen, Texas, a suburb of Dallas.
The team is titled after the initial Dallas Sidekicks that directed from 1984 to 2004.
Rugby union is a developing sport in Dallas as well as the whole of Texas.
The multiple clubs, ranging from men's and women's clubs to collegiate and high school, are part of the Texas Rugby Football Union. Currently Dallas is one of only 16 metros/cities in the United States encompassed in the Rugby Super League represented by Dallas Harlequins. The only Division I sports program inside the Dallas political boundary is the Dallas Baptist University Patriots baseball team Although outside the town/city limits, the Mustangs of Southern Methodist University are positioned in the enclave of University Park.
Neighboring metros/cities Fort Worth, Arlington, and Denton are home to the Texas Christian University Horned Frogs, University of Texas at Arlington Mavericks, and University of North Texas Mean Green in the order given.
The Dallas region hosted the Final Four of the 2014 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament at AT&T Stadium.
Dallas maintains and operates 406 parks on 21,000 acres (85 km2) of parkland.
In addition, Dallas is traversed by 61.6 miles (99.1 km) of biking and jogging trails, including the Katy Trail, and is home to 47 improve and neighborhood recreation centers, 276 sports fields, 60 swimming pools, 232 playgrounds, 173 basketball courts, 112 volleyball courts, 126 play slabs, 258 neighborhood tennis courts, 258 picnic areas, six 18-hole golf courses, two driving ranges, and 477 athletic fields. Dallas' flagship park is Fair Park.
Built in 1936 for the Worlds Fair and the Texas Centennial Exposition, Fair Park is the world's biggest compilation of Art Deco exhibit buildings, art, and sculptures; Fair Park is also home to the State Fair of Texas, the biggest state fair in the United States.
In 1935, Dallas purchased 36 acres (15 ha) from John Cole's estate to precarious Reverchon Park. Reverchon Park was titled after botanist Julien Reverchon, who left France to live in the La Reunion colony in present-day West Dallas.
Reverchon Park was prepared to be the crown jewel of the Dallas park fitness and was even referred to as the "Central Park" of Dallas.
The Trinity River Audubon Center is the first LEED-certified building constructed by the City of Dallas Parks and Recreation Department.
Named after its former barns name, the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad (or "MKT" Railroad), the 3.5 mile stretch of barns was purchased by the City of Dallas and transformed into the city's premier trail.
Dallas also hosts three of the twenty-one preserves of the extensive (3,200 acres (13 km2)) Dallas County Preserve System.
Both the Joppa Preserve, the Mc - Commas Bluff Preserve the Cedar Ridge Preserve are all inside the Dallas town/city limits.
The Cedar Ridge Preserve was formerly known as the Dallas Nature Center, but management was turned over to Audubon Dallas group, which now manages the 633-acre (2.56 km2) natural surrounding park on behalf of the town/city of Dallas and Dallas County.
The town/city is also home to Texas' first and biggest zoo, the 95 acres (0.38 km2) Dallas Zoo, which opened at its current locale in 1888. See also: List of mayors of Dallas and Sister metros/cities of Dallas Built in 1913, this was Dallas' old City Hall and was where Lee Harvey Oswald was shot.
Dallas City Hall.
Broadnax serving as town/city manager, and 14 council members serving as delegates to the 14 council districts in the city. This organizational structure was recently contested by some in favor of a strong-mayor town/city charter, only to be rejected by Dallas voters.
Martinez turn into the first Hispanic to sit as a council women in Dallas' town/city council. Policing in Dallas is provided dominantly by the Dallas Police Department, which has around 3,500 officers. The Dallas chief of police is David Brown (effective May 5, 2010). The Police Headquarters are positioned in the Cedars neighborhood of South Dallas.
Fire protection and emergency medical services in the town/city are provided by Dallas Fire-Rescue, which has 1,800 firefighters and 58 working fire stations in the town/city limits. The Dallas Fire & Rescue chief is Eddie Burns, Sr. The department operates the Dallas Firefighter's Museum assembled in 1907 along Parry Avenue near Fair Park.
According to the FBI, a town/city to town/city comparison of crime rates is not meaningful, because recording practices vary from town/city to city, people report different percentages of crimes from one town/city to the next, and the actual number of citizens physically present in a town/city is unknown. With that in mind, Dallas' violent crime rate (12.06 per 1,000 citizens ) is lower than that of St Louis (24.81), Detroit (24.22), Baltimore (16.96), Philadelphia (15.62), Cleveland (15.47), Miami (15.09), Washington, D.C.
National and state legislators representing Dallas: The United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas, which exercises initial jurisdiction over 100 counties in North and West Texas, convenes in the Earle Cabell Federal Building and Courthouse in the Government District of Downtown.
Dallas also is the seat of the Fifth Court of Appeals of Texas.
Overall, Dallas is centrist, with conservative Republicans dominating a sliver of suburban neighborhoods in North Dallas and Democratic voters spreading the remaining majority of the city, especially the central and southern sectors.
Jim Schutze of the Dallas Observer said in 2002 "the early vote in majority-black precincts in Southern Dallas is the city's only disciplined vote.
Bush. Dallas County as a whole was closely divided, with 50% of voters voting for Bush and 49% voting for Kerry. Results in the 2008 and 2012 elections favored Barack Obama, with the 44th President receiving 57% of Dallas County voters in both years, with greater margins in the town/city of Dallas itself.
Presidential election, approximately 68% of Dallas voters voted for Hillary Clinton, with 28% of town/city voters voting for Donald Trump. Dallas County as a whole saw 61% of voters voting for Clinton, with 35% support for Trump. In 2004, Lupe Valdez was propel Dallas County Sheriff.
Dallas is a center of education for much of the south central United States.
Colleges and universities in the Dallas town/city limits The University of Texas Southwestern Medical School is a medical school positioned in the city's Stemmons Corridor.
It is part of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, one of the biggest grouping of medical facilities in the world.
Texas Woman's University (TWU) has directed a nursing school in Dallas at Parkland Memorial Hospital since 1966.
TWU also directed an occupational therapy school at Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas from 1977 through 2011 before consolidating those functions into the new IHSD building at Parkland. Paul Quinn College is a private, historically black college positioned in southeast Dallas.
Originally positioned in Waco, Texas, it moved to Dallas in 1993 and is homed on the ground of the former Bishop College, another private, historically black college.
Dallas billionaire and entrepreneur Comer Cottrell, Jr., founder of Pro - Line Corporation, bought the ground of Bishop College and bequeathed it to Paul Quinn College in 1993. The University of North Texas at Dallas, positioned along Houston School Road. In 2009 UNT at Dallas became the first enhance college inside Dallas town/city limits. The University of North Texas System has requested approval from the Texas Legislature and Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board for the State's first new enhance law school in more than 40 years.
Dallas Baptist University Dallas Baptist University (DBU) is a private, coeducational college located in the Mountain Creek region of southwest Dallas.
Originally positioned in Decatur, Texas, the school moved to Dallas in 1965. The school presently enrolls over 5,600 students, and offers undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral degrees.
Dallas Theological Seminary, also inside the town/city limits, is recognized as one of the dominant seminaries in the evangelical faith.
Situated 3 miles (5 km) east of Downtown Dallas, it presently enrolls over 2,000 graduate students and has graduated over 12,000 alumni.
Criswell College, (within two blocks of Dallas Theological Seminary).
Dallas County Community College District, the 2-year educational institution of Dallas County; it has seven campuses positioned throughout the region with chapters in Dallas as well as the encircling suburbs.
DCCCD serves portions of Dallas in Dallas County.
Dallas Hall at Dedman College at Southern Methodist University in University Park, Texas Campus Mall at The University of Texas at Dallas Southern Methodist University (SMU) is a private, coeducational college in University Park, an autonomous town/city that, together with the adjoining town of Highland Park, Dallas surrounds entirely.
The University of Texas at Dallas (UTD), also part of the state enhance University of Texas System, is positioned in the town/city of Richardson, is adjoining to Dallas' Far North Dallas neighborhood, and is in the heart of the Telecom Corridor.
UT Dallas, or UTD, is famous for its work in combining the arts and technology, as well as for its programs in engineering, computer science, economics, global political economy, neuroscience, speech and hearing, pre-health, pre-law, and management.
UT Dallas is home to approximately 23,100 students.
The University of Dallas (UD), in the suburb of Irving, is an enclave of traditional Roman Catholicism in the mostly Protestant theological landscape of Dallas.
Located in downtown Dallas, El Centro College is the flagship institution of the Dallas County Community College District.
El Centro was the first college of the DCCCD to offer a nursing program and has established relationships with a several top-notch hospitals in the Dallas area.
University of Phoenix, Dallas Campus in Dallas, Irving, Plano, Arlington, Hurst, and Cedar Hill Dallas Christian College (DCC) in Farmers Branch SB Hall with Braniff Tower in the background at the University of Dallas (actually positioned in Irving).
Also, inside the Dallas/Fort Worth area, about 30 miles (48 km) to the west of the town/city of Dallas, Fort Worth has two primary universities inside its town/city limits, and one community sciences/medical school: Most citizens in the town/city of Dallas are positioned inside the Dallas Independent School District, the 12th-largest school precinct in the United States and second biggest in Texas. The school precinct operates autonomously of the town/city and enrolls over 161,000 students. As of 2003 DISD has the majority of K-12 students in the town/city of Dallas, and a proportionately larger number of students who are not non-Hispanic White. In 2006, one of the district's magnet schools, The School for the Talented ted in Oak Cliff, was titled the best school in the United States (among enhance schools) by Newsweek, retaining the title in 2007 and regaining the top spot in 2009.
2 spot the following year. Other Dallas high schools titled to the list were Hillcrest, W.
Woodrow Wilson was also titled the top elected high school in Dallas by small-town printed announcement D Magazine.[when?] A several areas of Dallas also extend into other school districts, including Carrollton-Farmers Branch, Duncanville, Garland, Highland Park, Mesquite, Plano, and Richardson.
The Plano and Richardson school districts have the biggest numbers of enhance school students in Dallas who are not in Dallas ISD. The Wilmer-Hutchins Independent School District once served portions of southern Dallas, but it was shut down for the 2005 2006 year.
WHISD students started attending other Dallas ISD schools amid that time.
Following the close, the Texas Education Agency merged WHISD into Dallas ISD.
Many school districts in Dallas County, including Dallas ISD, are served by a governmental agency called Dallas County Schools.
There are many private schools in Dallas, such as Bishop Dunne Catholic School, Bishop Lynch High School, Burton Adventist Academy, Dallas Christian Adventist Academy, Dallas Lutheran School, The da Vinci School, Greenhill School, Episcopal School of Dallas, First Baptist Academy of Dallas, The Hockaday School, Jesuit College Preparatory School of Dallas, The June Shelton School, Lakehill Preparatory School, The Lamplighter School, Parish Episcopal School, St.
Mark's School of Texas, Ursuline Academy of Dallas, The Winston School, and Yavneh Academy of Dallas and Dallas Christian School is on the borders of Mesquite and Garland, and Tyler Street Christian Academy in Oak Cliff.
Some Dallas inhabitants attend Cistercian Preparatory School in adjoining Irving, The Highlands School in Irving, Trinity Christian Academy in Addison, and John Paul II High School in [Plano].
The town/city is served by the Dallas Public Library system.
The fitness was originally created by the Dallas Federation of Women's Clubs with accomplishments spearheaded by then-president Mrs.
See also: Newspapers of Dallas, Texas; List of airways broadcasts in Texas; List of tv stations in Texas Dallas/Fort Worth; List of movies set in Dallas, Texas; and List of tv shows set in Dallas Dallas has various small-town newspapers, magazines, tv stations and airways broadcasts that serve the Dallas Fort Worth metroplex as a whole, which is the 5th-largest media market in the United States. Dallas has one primary daily newspaper, The Dallas Morning News, which was established in 1885 by A.
The Dallas Times Herald, started in 1888, was the Morning News' primary competitor until Belo purchased the paper on December 8, 1991 and closed the paper down the next day.
Other publications include the Dallas Weekly, the Oak Cliff Tribune and the Elite News, all weekly news publications.
The Dallas Morning News also puts out a weekly publication, neighborsgo, which comes out every Friday and focuses on improve news.
The Dallas Observer and the North Texas Journal are also alternative weekly newspapers, D Magazine, is a notable monthly periodical about business, life, and entertainment in the Metroplex.
To the north of Dallas and Fort Worth, the Denton Record-Chronicle primarily covers news for the town/city of Denton and Denton County.
63 airways broadcasts operate inside range of Dallas. The town/city of Dallas operates WRR 101.1 FM, the area's chief classical music station, from town/city offices in Fair Park. Its initial sister station, licensed as WRR-AM in 1921, is the earliest commercially directed airways broadcast in Texas and the second-oldest in the United States, after KDKA (AM) in Pittsburgh. Because of the city's centrally positioned geographical position and lack of close-by mountainous terrain, high-power class A medium-wave stations KRLD and WBAP can broadcast as far as southern Canada at evening and can be used for emergency messages when transmitting is down in other primary urbane areas in the United States.
Panorama of the Dallas Medical District with UT Southwestern Medical Center Dallas has many hospitals and a number of medical research facilities inside its town/city limits.
One primary research and development office is the Dallas Medical District with the UT Southwestern Medical Center in the Stemmons Corridor, along with the affiliated UT Southwestern Medical School.
Dallas also has a VA hospital in the southern portion of the city, the Dallas Veterans Affairs Medical Center.
Other hospitals in the town/city include Baylor University Medical Center in East Dallas, Methodist Dallas Medical Center in Oak Cliff, Methodist Charlton Medical Center near Duncanville, Medical City Dallas Hospital and Presbyterian Hospital in North Dallas, and the Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children in Oak Lawn.
Like many other primary cities in the United States, the major mode of small-town transit in Dallas is the automobile, though accomplishments have been made to increase the availability of alternative modes of transportation, including the assembly of light rail lines, biking and walking paths, wide sidewalks, a street car system, and buses.Walk Score ranked Dallas the twenty third most walkable of fifty biggest cities in the United States. The Dallas region freeway fitness is set up in the prominent hub-and-spoke system, shaped much like a wagon wheel.
Radiating out of Downtown Dallas' freeway loop are the spokes of the area's highway fitness Interstates 30, 35 - E, and 45, U.S.
Highway 175, State Spur 366, the Dallas North Tollway, State Highway 114, U.S.
It is presently one of the several 5-level interchange in Dallas and is one of the biggest freeway interchanges in the United States.
Toll Texas DNT new.svg Dallas North Tollway Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) is the Dallas-area enhance transit authority, providing rail, buses and HOV lanes to commuters.
The Red Line travels through Oak Cliff, South Dallas, Downtown, Uptown, North Dallas, Richardson and Plano, while the Blue Line goes through Oak Cliff, Downtown, Uptown, East Dallas, Lake Highlands, and Garland.
The Red and Blue lines are conjoined between 8th & Corinth Station in Oak Cliff through Mockingbird Station in North Dallas.
The Green Line serves Carrollton, Farmers Branch, Love Field Airport, Stemmons Corridor, Victory Park, Downtown, Deep Ellum, Fair Park, South Dallas, and Pleasant Grove.
In August 2009, the Regional Transportation Council agreed to seek $96 million in federal stimulus dollars for a street car universal in Dallas and Fort Worth.
The Oak Cliff Transit Authority took the lead with leaders envisioning a streetcar line that would link Union Station and the Dallas Convention Center in downtown to Oak Cliff, Methodist Medical Center, and the Bishop Arts District via the Houston Street Viaduct. Dallas was awarded a $23 million TIGER grant towards the $58 million Dallas Streetcar Project in February 2010. The Dallas Streetcar Project will link up with the current Mc - Kinney Avenue Transit Authority (MATA) street car line (also known as the M-Line) in Uptown with a new alignment on Olive Street.
Dallas is served by two commercial airports: Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport (DFW) and Dallas Love Field (DAL).
In addition, Dallas Executive Airport (formerly Redbird Airport), serves as a general aviation airport for the city, and Addison Airport functions similarly just outside the town/city limits in the suburb of Addison.
Two more general aviation airports are positioned about 35 miles (56 km) north of Dallas in Mc - Kinney, and another two are positioned in Fort Worth, on the west side of the Metroplex.
DFW International Airport is positioned in the suburbs slightly north of and equidistant to Downtown Fort Worth and Downtown Dallas.
Similarly, Love Field is positioned inside the town/city limits of Dallas about 6 miles (10 km) northwest of Downtown, and is command posts to Southwest Airlines, the biggest domestic airline in the United States.
Dallas is served by Dallas Water Utilities, which operates a several waste treatment plants and pulls water from a several area reservoirs. The city's electric fitness is maintained by a several companies, including Stream Energy, Cirro Energy and TXU, whose parent company, Energy Future Holdings Corporation, has command posts in the city. Dallas has six Sister metros/cities and five Friendship cities. icon Dallas Fort Worth Metroplex portal National Register of Historic Places listings in Dallas County, Texas Official records for Dallas were kept at the Weather Bureau Office in downtown from 15 October 1913 to August 1940, and at Love Field since September 1940. For attempts to render the Trinity River navigable to the Gulf of Mexico, see TRINITY RIVER NAVIGATION PROJECTS |The Handbook of Texas Online|Texas State Historical Association (TSHA), https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/ett01 (last visited September 16, 2013); The Trinity River Authority of Texas (TRA), https://trinityra.org/ourhistory (last visited September 16, 2013); Living with the Trinity: The Trinity River in Dallas, Fort Worth, North Texas and Beyond (Video Documentary), https://trinityrivertexas.org/video_full.php (last visited September 16, 2013).
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