Farmers Branch, Texas Farmers Branch, Texas Flag of Farmers Branch, Texas Farmers Branch is a town/city in Dallas County, Texas, United States.
On May 12, 2007, Farmers Branch became the first improve in the country to prohibit landlords from renting to most illegal immigrants.
Cochran later changed the name to Farmers Branch to reflect the area's rich soil and farmland. Farmers Branch was the first locale of the Texan Land and Emigration Company (or Peters Colony) in 1845.
Webb became the first postmaster at the Farmers Branch postal service, which opened on January 5, 1848.
The postal service reopened in 1875. To assure that barns s would eventually pass through Farmers Branch, prominent early settler Samuel Gilbert and the rest sold right-of-way through their territory in 1874. Around three to four years later, the Dallas and Wichita Railway instead of a track from Dallas through Farmers Branch to Lewisville.
Farmers Branch was incorporated as a town/city after an election was held on February 23, 1946. William F.
In the 1950 census, Farmers Branch had a populace of 915.
Farmers Branch is home to a large number of corporations that have attained frontage along Interstate 635, the Dallas North Tollway, and Interstate 35 - E.
JP Morgan Chase Bank in Farmers Branch As of 2012 Farmers Branch has 3,500 companies and over 250 corporate headquarters.
Celanese Corporation, I2 Technologies, Occidental Chemical, and Taco Bueno have their command posts in Farmers Branch.
Maxim Integrated Products has an office in Farmers Branch. All Smiles Dental Centers formerly had its command posts in Farmers Branch. Farmers Branch is considered to be part of the humid subtropical region.
In November 2007, the Farmers Branch Police Department conducted a series of police raids on Unique Performance properties.
Unique Performance was a business in Farmers Branch that assembled Carroll Shelby licensed "Eleanor" Mustangs and Chip Foose 1969 Camaros.
The Farmers Branch Police Department seized 61 vehicles that had tampered Vehicle Identification Numbers.
In November 2006, the town/city of Farmers Branch entered the nationwide spotlight when its council became the first in Texas to pass anti-illegal immigration measures, proposed by Councilman Tim O'Hare, which include fining landlords that rent to illegal aliens, and allowing small-town authorities to screen illegal aliens in police custody.
The initial discussions in August 2006 extraly considered punishing employers who hire illegal immigrants and eliminating subsidies for illegal immigrants in the city's youth programs. After initially being set aside in favor of a resolution calling for the federal government to increase immigration-law enforcement, the rental, police, and official-language measures were adopted by the council on November 13, 2006 Following disputes over whether closed-door discussions of the measures violated the state's open-meetings law, a petition was circulated by opponents in order to force the council either to repeal the measures or to hold a special election to allow voters to decide the copy directly; the petition was certified in late December 2006, dominant to the scheduling of a vote in May, until which time the measures would not be enforced. He also said that Farmers Branch would be willing to take the case all the way to the Supreme Court if necessary.
Farmers Branch inhabitants then propel Mayor Tim O'Hare, who led the campaign for the measures against illegal immigration. The town/city of Farmers Branch is a voluntary member of the North Central Texas Council of Governments association, the purpose of which is to coordinate individual and collective small-town governments and facilitate county-wide solutions, eliminate unnecessary duplication, and enable joint decisions.
Residential areas in Farmers Branch are inside two school districts. Most of Farmers Branch is a part of the Carrollton-Farmers Branch Independent School District.
Dave Blair Elementary School, Farmers Branch Elementary School, Janie Stark Elementary School, and Nancy H.
Strickland Intermediate School (3-5) are in Farmers Branch. Sections zoned to Strickland for grades 3-5 are zoned to Neil Ray Mc - Laughlin Elementary School (K-2) in Carrollton Vivian C.
Field Middle School is in Farmers Branch and serves almost all of the CFBISD portion. R.
Turner High School in Carrollton also serves almost all of CFBISD Farmers Branch. Residential areas south of Interstate 635 and west of Interstate 35 - E are zoned to La Villita Elementary School, Barbara Bush Middle School and Ranchview High School in Irving. Dallas Independent School District also serves a small portion of Farmers Branch. One DISD elementary school, William L.
Cabell Elementary, is in Farmers Branch. Other residentiary portions of DISD Farmers Branch are served by Gooch Elementary. Residential areas in DISD are zoned to Marsh Middle School and W.T.
Mayor of Farmers Branch Tim O'Hare proposed making a new municipal Farmers Branch school precinct with the portions presently in CFBISD and DISD.
At the time the town/city did not have the 8,000 kids required under Texas law as a requirement for forming a new district, so CBS Dallas stated "Even if the proposal had passed there would have been little, if anything, the town/city could have done to move forward". Honors Academy, a charter school operator, has its administrative offices in Farmers Branch. The town/city hosted Branch Park Academy, a 6-8 charter school directed by Honors Academy. Branch Park Academy was closed after the 2014-2015 school year and the building has been leveled.
Mary Immaculate Catholic School, a part of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Dallas, is in Farmers Branch. Farmers Branch is home to Dallas Christian College, a four-year Bible college, and Brookhaven College, a improve college of the Dallas County Community College District (DCCCD).
The Japanese School of Dallas, a supplementary Japanese school, has its chief office in Farmers Branch. The school conducts its classes at Ted Polk Middle School in Carrollton. On Monday July 25, 2016 the Japanese Association and the Japanese School offices will move to a new locale in Dallas.
Farmers Branch was one of fifteen metros/cities to approve services of Dallas Area Rapid Transit in 1983 by levying a 1 cent revenue tax.
On December 6, 2010, the town/city received light rail transit service with a station near the northeast corner of Interstates 635 and 35 - E on the Green Line, which runs from Pleasant Grove in southeast Dallas through downtown Dallas following I-35 - E up to Carrollton at Frankford Road.
Farmers Branch maintains a sister town/city relationship with Bassetlaw, United Kingdom and Garbsen, Germany.
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