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Fort Worth, Texas City of Fort Worth Skyline of Fort Worth Skyline of Fort Worth Official seal of Fort Worth, Texas Location of Fort Worth in Tarrant County, Texas Location of Fort Worth in Tarrant County, Texas Body Fort Worth City Council Fort Worth is the 16th-largest town/city in the United States and the fifth-largest town/city in the state of Texas. The town/city is in North Central Texas and covers nearly 350 square miles (910 km2) in the counties of Denton, Parker, Wise, and Tarrant, of which it is the county seat.
According to the 2015 census, estimates, Fort Worth's populace is 833,319. The town/city is the second-largest in the Dallas Fort Worth Arlington urbane region (the "DFW Metroplex").
Today, Fort Worth still embraces its Western tradition and traditional architecture and design. USS Fort Worth (LCS-3) is the first ship of the United States Navy titled after the city.
Fort Worth boasts one of the most dynamic downtowns in America and is home to the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition and a several world-class exhibitions designed by internationally known intact architects.
Also of note is the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, designed by Tadao Ando.
The town/city is stimulated by a several university communities: Texas Christian, Texas Wesleyan, University of North Texas Health Science Center, and Texas A&M University School of Law, and many multinational corporations, including Bell Helicopter, Lockheed Martin, American Airlines, BNSF Railway, Pier 1 Imports, and Radio Shack.
Main articles: History of Fort Worth, Texas and Timeline of Fort Worth, Texas Fort Worth Texas Historical Marker The Treaty of Bird's Fort between the Republic of Texas and a several Native American tribes was signed in 1843 at Bird's Fort in present-day Arlington, Texas. Article XI of the treaty provided that no one may "pass the line of trading homes" (at the border of the Indians' territory) without permission of the President of Texas, and may not reside or remain in the Indians' territory.
War Department established Fort Worth in 1849 as the northernmost of a fitness of 10 forts for protecting the American Frontier following the end of the Mexican American War. The City of Fort Worth continues to be known as "where the West begins." A line of seven army posts were established in 1848 49 after the Mexican War to protect the pioneer of Texas along the American Frontier and encompassed Fort Worth, Fort Graham, Fort Gates, Fort Croghan, Fort Martin Scott, Fort Lincoln, and Fort Duncan. Originally 10 forts had been proposed by Major General William Jenkins Worth (1794 1849), who commanded the Department of Texas in 1849.
In January 1849, Worth proposed a line of 10 forts to mark the Texas frontier from Eagle Pass to the confluence of the West Fork and Clear Fork of the Trinity River.
On June 6, 1849, Arnold, advised by Middleton Tate Johnson, established a camp on the bank of the Trinity River and titled the post Camp Worth with respect to the late General Worth.
The United States War Department officially titled the post Fort Worth on November 14, 1849. Terrell (1812 1905) from Tennessee claimed to be the first resident of Fort Worth. The fort was flooded the first year and moved to the top of the bluff; the current courthouse was assembled on this site.
As a stop on the legendary Chisholm Trail, Fort Worth was stimulated by the company of the cattle drives and became a brawling, bustling town.
Van Zandt established Tidball, Van Zandt, and Company, which became Fort Worth National Bank in 1884.
In 1875, the Dallas Herald presented an article by a former Fort Worth lawyer, Robert E.
Cowart, who wrote that the decimation of Fort Worth's population, caused by the economic disaster and difficult winter of 1873, had dealt a harsh blow to the cattle industry.
Added to the slowdown due to the barns 's stopping the laying of track 30 miles (48 km) outside of Fort Worth, Cowart said that Fort Worth was so slow that he saw a panther asleep in the street by the courthouse.
Although an intended insult, the name Panther City was enthusiastically embraced when in 1876 Fort Worth recovered economically. Many businesses and organizations continue to use Panther in their name.
In 1876, the Texas and Pacific Railway finally was instead of to Fort Worth, stimulating a boom and transforming the Fort Worth Stockyards into a premier center for the cattle wholesale trade. Migrants from the devastated war-torn South continued to swell the population, and small, improve factories and mills yielded to larger businesses.
Newly dubbed the "Queen City of the Prairies", Fort Worth supplied a county-wide market via the burgeoning transportation network.
Texas and Pacific Passenger Station, Fort Worth, Texas (postcard, about 1909) With the city's chief focus on cattle and the barns s, small-town businessman, Louville Niles, formed the Fort Worth Stockyards Company in 1893.
Cowboys took full favor of their last brush with civilization before the long drive on the Chisholm Trail from Fort Worth up north to Kansas.
The town soon became home to "Hell's Half-Acre", the biggest compilation of saloons, dance halls, and bawdy homes south of Dodge City (the northern end of the Chisholm Trail), giving Fort Worth the nickname of "The Paris of the Plains". Longtime Fort Worth inhabitants claimed the place was never as wild as its reputation, but amid the 1880s, Fort Worth was a regular stop on the "gambler's circuit" by such gambler/gunmen as Bat Masterson, Doc Holliday, and the Earp brothers (Wyatt, Morgan, and Virgil).
James Earp, the eldest of his brothers, lived with his wife in Fort Worth amid this period; their home was at the edge of Hell's Half Acre, at 9th and Calhoun.
The first prohibition campaign in Texas was mounted in Fort Worth in 1889, helping to shut down the Acre's worst excesses.
Norris used the Acre to scourge the leadership of Fort Worth.
When he began to link certain Fort Worth businessmen with property in the Acre and announce their names from his pulpit, the battle heated up.
A new town/city administration and the federal government, which was eyeing Fort Worth as a potential site for a primary military training camp, joined forces with the Baptist preacher to bring down the final curtain on the Acre.
The police department compiled statistics showing that 50% of the violent crime in Fort Worth occurred in the Acre, which confirmed respectable people' opinion of the area.
After Camp Bowie (a World War I Army training installation) was positioned on the outskirts of Fort Worth in 1917, the military used martial law to regulate prostitutes and barkeepers of the Acre.
By the time Norris held a mock funeral parade to "bury John Barleycorn" in 1919, the Acre had turn into a part of Fort Worth history.
When petroleum began to gush in West Texas in the early 20th century, and again in the late 1970s, Fort Worth was at the center of the wheeling and dealing.
In July 2007, advances in horizontal drilling technology made vast natural gas reserves in the Barnett Shale available directly under the city, helping many inhabitants receive royalty checks for their mineral rights. Today, the town/city of Fort Worth and many inhabitants are dealing with the benefits and issues associated with the natural gas reserves under ground. Fort Worth was the fastest-growing large town/city in the United States from 2000 to 2006 and was voted one of "America's Most Livable Communities." Fort Worth horizon from the Amon Carter Museum Fort Worth is positioned in North Texas, and has a generally humid subtropical climate. It is part of the Cross Timbers region; this region is a boundary between the more heavily forested easterly parts and the rolling hills and prairies of the central part.
Downtown Fort Worth at evening The Dallas Fort Worth metroplex is the core of the North Texas region.
See also: List of neighborhoods in Fort Worth, Texas The town/city of Fort Worth contains over 1000 natural gas wells (December 2009 count) tapping the Barnett Shale.
The hottest month of the year is July, when the average high temperature is 95 F (35.0 C), and overnight low temperatures average 72 F (22.2 C), giving an average temperature of 84 F (28.9 C). The coldest month of the year is January, when the average high temperature is 55 F (12.8 C) and low temperatures average 31 F ( 0.6 C). The average temperature in January is 43 F (6 C). The highest temperature ever recorded in Fort Worth is 113 F (45.0 C), on June 26, 1980, amid the Great 1980 Heat Wave, and June 27, 1980. The coldest temperature ever recorded in Fort Worth was 8 F ( 22.2 C) on February 12, 1899. Because of its position in North Texas, Fort Worth is very susceptible to supercell thunderstorms, which produce large hail and can produce tornados.
The average annual rain for Fort Worth is 34.01 inches (863.9 mm). The wettest month of the year is May, when an average of 4.58 inches (116.3 mm) of rain falls. The driest month of the year is January, when only 1.70 inches (43.2 mm) of rain falls. The driest calendar year since records began has been 1921 with 17.91 inches (454.9 mm) and the wettest 2015 with 62.61 inches (1,590.3 mm).
The average annual snow flurry in Fort Worth is 2.6 inches (0.07 m). The most snow flurry in one month has been 13.5 inches (0.34 m) in February 1978, and the most in a season 17.6 inches (0.45 m) in 1977/1978.
The National Weather Service office which serves the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex is based in the northeastern part of Fort Worth. Climate data for Fort Worth, Texas According to the 2010 census, the ethnic composition of Fort Worth was: The July 2004 census estimates have placed Fort Worth in the top 20 most crowded cities (# 19) in the U.S.
Fort Worth is also in the top five metros/cities with the biggest numerical increase from July 1, 2003 to July 1, 2004, with 17,872 more citizens or a 3.1% increase. The populace density was 1,827.8 citizens per square mile (705.7/km ).
In 1970, the Enumeration Bureau reported Fort Worth's populace as 72% non-Hispanic White, 19.9% Black, and 7.9% Hispanic. Major companies based in Fort Worth include American Airlines Group (and subsidiaries American Airlines and Envoy Air), D.
According to the city's 2011 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, the top employers in the Fort Worth region are: 2 Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Fort Worth 11,400 3 Fort Worth Independent School District 10,100 5 City of Fort Worth 6,100 Building on its frontier tradition and a history of strong small-town arts patronage, Fort Worth promotes itself as the "City of Cowboys and Culture". Fort Worth has the world's first and biggest indoor rodeo, world class exhibitions, a calendar of celebrations and a robust small-town arts scene.
Fort Worth Museum of Science and History is adjoining to the National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame Kimbell Art Museum, Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Sid Richardson Museum, Fort Worth Museum of Science and History, National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame, Military Museum of Fort Worth, Texas Civil War Museum, Texas Cowboy Hall of Fame, Fort Worth Stockyards Museum, Al and Ann Stohlman Museum, Lenora Rolla Heritage Center Museum, National Multicultural Western Heritage Museum, CR Smith Museum.
Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, Billy Bob's, Texas Ballet Theater, Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, Fort Worth Opera, Live Eclectic Music (Ridglea Theater) The Academy of Western Artists, based in Gene Autry, Oklahoma presents its annual awards in Fort Worth in fields related to the American cowboy, including music, literature, and even chuckwagon cooking. The Fort Worth Zoo is home to over 5000 animals and has been titled as a top zoo in the country by Family Life magazine, the Los Angeles Times, and USA Today and one of the top zoos in the South by Southern Living Reader's Choice Awards; it has been ranked in the top 10 zoos in the United States.
The Fort Worth Botanic Garden and the Botanical Research Institute of Texas are also in the city.
For those interested in hiking, birding, or canoeing, the Fort Worth Nature Center and Refuge in northwest Fort Worth is a 3621-acre preserved natural region designated by the Department of the Interior as a National Natural Landmark Site in 1980.
While much of Fort Worth's sports consideration is concentrated on the Metroplex's experienced sports teams, the town/city has its own athletic identity.
The initial Cats were a very prominent minor league team in Fort Worth from the 19th century (when they were called the Panthers) until 1960, when the team was consolidated into the Dallas Rangers.
The existence of Texas Christian University less than 5 miles (8 km) from downtown and nationwide competingness in football, baseball, and men's and women's basketball have sustained TCU as an meaningful part of Fort Worth's sports scene.
The Colonial Country Club was the home course of golfing legend Ben Hogan, who was from Fort Worth.
The Fort Worth Cats were a experienced baseball team that played in the town/city and was established in 2001, as part of the All-American Association.
Fort Worth Vaqueros FC are a minor league soccer team which began play in the summer of 2014.
Fort Worth is home to Texas Motor Speedway, also known as "The Great American Speedway".
Amateur sports-car racing in the greater Fort Worth region occurs mostly at two purpose-built tracks: Motorsport Ranch and Eagles Canyon Raceway.
City Hall in Fort Worth Post Office in Fort Worth Fort Worth has a council-manager government, with elections held every two years for a mayor, propel at large, and eight council members, propel by district.
The council has the power to adopt municipal ordinances and resolutions, make proclamations, set the town/city tax rate, approve the town/city budget, and appoint the town/city secretary, town/city attorney, town/city auditor, municipal court judges, and members of town/city boards and commissions.
Fort Worth Fire Department - provides fire and emergency services.
The Texas Department of Transportation operates the Fort Worth District Office in Fort Worth. The North Texas Intermediate Sanction Facility, a privately directed prison facility housing short-term parole violators, was in Fort Worth.
State Senator Konni Burton (R) represents Fort Worth (district 10).
Fort Worth is split between Texas's 6th congressional district, represented by Republican Joe Barton; Texas's 12th congressional district, represented by Republican Kay Granger; Texas's 24th congressional district, represented by Republican Kenny Marchant; Texas's 26th congressional district, represented by Republican Michael Burgess; and Texas's 33rd congressional district, represented by Democrat Marc Veasey.
Fort Worth is home to one of the two locations of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing.
Currency manufacturing began in December 1990 at the Fort Worth facility, the official dedication took place April 26, 1991.
Mahon United States Courthouse building contains three oil-on-canvas panels on the fourth floor by artist Frank Mechau (commissioned under the Public Works Administration's art program). Mechau's paintings, The Taking of Sam Bass, Two Texas Rangers, and Flags Over Texas were installed in 1940, becoming the only New Deal art commission sponsored in Fort Worth.
The Federal Aviation Administration, National Archives and Records Administration, and Federal Bureau of Investigation have offices in Fort Worth.
Fort Worth Library is the enhance library system.
Most of Fort Worth is served by the Fort Worth Independent School District.
Other school districts that serve portions of Fort Worth include: The portion of Fort Worth inside the Arlington Independent School District contains a wastewater plant.
Private schools in Fort Worth include both secular and parochial.
All Saints' Episcopal School (Fort Worth, TX) (Pre - K-12) Fort Worth Christian School (K-12) Fort Worth Country Day School (K-12) Hill School of Fort Worth (2 12) Further information: List of universities and universities in Fort Worth, Texas University of Texas at Arlington Fort Worth ground Tarleton State University Fort Worth ground The Art Institute of Fort Worth The Culinary School of Fort Worth Fort Worth is shared by Dallas's media market.
The city's periodical is Fort Worth, Texas Magazine, which prints knowledge about Fort Worth affairs, civil activity, fashion, dining, and culture. Many airways broadcasts are in and around Fort Worth, with many different formats.
On the AM dial, like in all other markets, political talk radio is prevalent, with WBAP 820, KLIF 570, KEXB 620, KSKY 660, KRLD 1080 the conservative talk stations serving Fort Worth and KMNY 1360 the sole progressive talk station serving the city.
Fort Worth's Spanish-speaking populace is served by many stations on AM: A several different Asian language stations serve Fort Worth: Other formats found on the Fort Worth AM dial are urban KKDA 730, company talk KJSA 1120, nation station KCLE 1460.
KLNO is a commercial airways broadcast licensed to Fort Worth.
Rodriguez directed Dallas Fort Worth airways broadcasts KLTY and KESS on 94.1 FM.
Downtown Fort Worth also hosts the Texas Country airways broadcast KFWR 95.9 The Ranch.
See also: Template:Dallas Fort Worth Radio A couple of internet radio shows are in the Fort Worth area, DFDubb - Is - Hot and The Broadband Brothers.
Fort Worth shares a tv market with close-by Dallas.
Fort Worth has one journal presented daily, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
The Fort Worth Weekly is an alternative weekly journal that serves the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex.
The journal had an approximate circulation of 47,000 in 2015. The Fort Worth Weekly prints every Wednesday and features, among many things, news reporting, cultural event guides, movie reviews, and editorials.
Fort Worth Business Press is a weekly printed announcement that chronicles news in the Fort Worth company community.
Fort Worth, Texas Magazine is a monthly printed announcement that highlights the civil and cultural life of the city.
The Fort Worth Press was a daily newspaper, presented weekday afternoons and on Sundays from 1921 until 1975.
Circulation had dwindled to severaler than 30,000 daily, just more than 10% of that of the Fort Worth Star Telegram.
The name Fort Worth Press was resurrected briefly in a new Fort Worth Press paper directed by then-former publisher Bill Mc - Ada and briefer still by William Dean Singleton, then-owner of the weekly Azle (Texas) News, now owner of the Media Central news group.
The Fort Worth Press directed from offices and presses at 500 Jones Street in downtown Fort Worth. The Trinity Railway Express makes a stop in downtown Fort Worth Like most metros/cities that interval quickly after World War II, Fort Worth's chief mode of transit is the automobile, but bus transit via The T is available, as well as an interurban train service to Dallas via the Trinity Railway Express.
Interurban Line between Fort Worth and Dallas, Texas (postcard, about 1902 1924) The first streetcar business in Fort Worth was the Fort Worth Street Railway Company.
Its first line began operating in December 1876, and traveled from the courthouse down Main Street to the T&P Depot. By 1890, more than 20 private companies were operating streetcar lines in Fort Worth.
The Fort Worth Street Railway Company bought out many of its competitors, and was eventually itself bought out by the Bishop & Sherwin Syndicate in 1901. The new ownership changed the company's name to the Northern Texas Traction Company, which directed 84 miles of streetcar stockyards s in 1925, and their lines connected downtown Fort Worth to TCU, the Near Southside, Arlington Heights, Lake Como, and the Stockyards.
Close to three-fourths of the mileage was in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, running between Fort Worth and Dallas and to other region cities including Cleburne, Denison, Corsicana, and Waco.
The line depicted in the associated image was the second to be constructed in Texas and ran 35 miles between Fort Worth and Dallas.
Interstate 30 and Interstate 20 connect Fort Worth to Arlington, Grand Prairie, and Dallas.
Interstate 35 - W joins Fort Worth with Hillsboro to the south and the metros/cities of Denton and Gainesville to the north.
I-20 in southern Fort Worth The Fort Worth Transportation Authority, better known as The T, serves Fort Worth with dozens of different bus routes throughout the city, including a downtown bus circulator known as Molly the Trolley.
In 2010, Fort Worth won a $25 million Federal Urban Circulator grant to build a streetcar system. In December 2010, though, the town/city council forfeited the grant by voting to end the streetcar study. The Trinity Railway Express is a commuter rail line that joins downtown Fort Worth with downtown Dallas and a several suburban stations between the two primary cities. Two Amtrak routes stop at the Fort Worth Intermodal Transportation Center: The Heartland Flyer and Texas Eagle.
Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport is a primary commercial airport positioned between the primary cities of Fort Worth and Dallas.
Originally titled Amon Carter Field after one of the city's influential mayors, Greater Southwest opened in 1953 and directed as the major airport for Fort Worth until 1974.
Fort Worth is home to these four airports inside town/city limits: Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Fort Worth A 2011 study by Walk Score ranked Fort Worth 47th-most walkable of 50 biggest U.S.
The Fort Worth Bike Sharing is a nonprofit organization that controls Fort Worth B-Cycle, a bike-sharing program introduced to the region on April 22, 2013.
Main article: List of citizens from Fort Worth, Texas Fort Worth is a part of the Sister Cities International program and maintains cultural and economic exchange programs with its eight sister cities. Downtown Dallas from the Trinity Dallas Fort Worth Metroplex portal Texas flag map.svg - Texas portal "Fort Worth Geographic Information Systems".
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