Grand Prairie, Texas
For any of the townships with the name Grand Prairie, see Grand Prairie Township .
Grand Prairie, Texas City of Grand Prairie Location of Grand Prairie in Dallas and Tarrant County, Texas Location of Grand Prairie in Dallas and Tarrant County, Texas Grand Prairie, Texas is positioned in the US Grand Prairie, Texas - Grand Prairie, Texas Demonym Grand Prairian Grand Prairie is a town/city in Dallas County, Tarrant County, and Ellis County, Texas, in the United States. It is part of the Mid-Cities region in the Dallas Fort Worth metroplex.
Grand Prairie's name is from French language and means literally Big Grassland.
Grand Prairie has a populace of 175,396 as stated to the 2010 census, making it the fifteenth most crowded city in the state. 7.1.1.1 Grand Prairie Independent School District The town/city of Grand Prairie was first established as Dechman by Alexander Mc - Rae Dechman in 1863.
In 1876, Dechman interchanged half his "prairie" property to the T&P Railroad to ensure the barns came through the town.
Later that same year, after the Postal Service had adopted the "Deckman" name, confusion resulted from the T&P Railroad designation "Grand Prairie".
This name was based on maps drawn from around 1850 through 1858 that labeled the region between Dallas and Fort Worth "the grand prairie of Texas".
In order to alleviate the confusion, the Postal Service titled the postal service "Grand Prairie".
The town of Grand Prairie was eventually incorporated as a town/city in 1909.
During World War I and since, Grand Prairie has had a long history with the defense and aviation industry.
While the present-day Vought plant on Jefferson Avenue is part of a small strip inside the Dallas town/city limits, it was originally in Grand Prairie.
This division was eventually sold to Lockheed Martin, which continues to operate in Grand Prairie.
Grand Prairie was also the North American command posts for Aerospatiale Helicopter.
In 1953, the mayor and town/city council of Grand Prairie went on a "land grab", and attempted to annex nearly 70 square miles (180 km2) of then-unincorporated and largely undeveloped territory in southern Dallas and Tarrant counties.
Grand Prairie is positioned along the border between Tarrant and Dallas counties, with a small portion extending south into Ellis County.
The town/city is bordered by Dallas to the east, Cedar Hill and Midlothian to the southeast, Mansfield to the southwest, Arlington to the west, Fort Worth to the northwest, and Irving to the north.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 81.1 square miles (210.0 km2), of which 72.1 square miles (186.8 km2) is territory and 9.0 square miles (23.3 km2), or 11.08%, is water. The West Fork of the Trinity River and a primary tributary, Johnson Creek, flow through Grand Prairie.
Grand Prairie has a long history of flooding from Johnson Creek.
Grand Prairie As of 2010 Grand Prairie had a populace of 175,396.
Grand Prairie is part of the humid subtropical region.
Climate data for Grand Prairie 1981 2013 Normals Average snowy days ( 0.1 in) 0.4 0.3 0.3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.1 1.1 According to the city's 2007 2008 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, the city's various funds had $275.5 million in revenues, $236.4 million in expenditures, $1,003.2 million in total assets, $424.9 million in total liabilities, and $305.9 million in cash and investments. Health Center in Grand Prairie. Grand Prairie as of 2012 has 320 municipal police officers The town/city of Grand Prairie 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.
Department of Justice runs the Grand Prairie Office Complex on the grounds of the U.S.
According to the city's 2008 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, the top employers in the town/city are: 1 Grand Prairie Independent School District 3,200 5 Lone Star Park at Grand Prairie 1,200 6 City of Grand Prairie 1,200 Six Flags maintains a corporate office in Grand Prairie. Airbus Helicopters, Inc., the U.S.
Subsidiary of Airbus Helicopters, has its command posts in Grand Prairie. In 1978 American Airlines announced that it would move its command posts from New York City to the Dallas/Fort Worth area. The airline moved its command posts into two leased office buildings in Grand Prairie.
The airline rather than moving into its Fort Worth command posts facility on January 17, 1983, when the airline left its Grand Prairie facility. Most of Grand Prairie's K-12 student populace attends schools in the Grand Prairie Independent School District, which serves areas of Grand Prairie in Dallas County.
The Mansfield Independent School District serves areas of Grand Prairie in Tarrant County and operates six elementary schools inside the Grand Prairie town/city limits.
Other portions of Grand Prairie reside inside the Arlington, Cedar Hill, Irving, Mansfield, and Midlothian school districts. In Texas, school precinct boundaries do not follow town/city and county boundaries because all aspects of the school precinct government apparatus, including school precinct boundaries, are separated from the town/city and county government entirely, with the exception of the Stafford Municipal School District in the Houston area.
Grand Prairie Independent School District The high schools in the precinct are South Grand Prairie High School, Grand Prairie High School, Crosswinds High School and Dubiski Career High School.
However, YWLA at Bill Arnold offers both high school and middle school education.
The Arlington ISD has the second highest portion of Grand Prairie's K-12 student population.
Six Arlington ISD elementary schools are inside the town/city limits of Grand Prairie.
Grand Prairie inhabitants in the Arlington ISD are positioned generally west of the Dallas-Tarrant County boundary and north of the intersection of Camp Wisdom and Lake Ridge in southwest Grand Prairie.
One of the Arlington high schools, James Bowie High, has more Grand Prairie inhabitants than Arlington inhabitants that are students at the school.
Grand Prairie student/residents in the Arlington ISD attend Bowie, Sam Houston, or Lamar High School in the Arlington ISD and their feeder elementary schools and junior high schools.
The Mansfield ISD contains the third highest portion of the Grand Prairie's K-12 student population.
Grand Prairie inhabitants in the Mansfield ISD are positioned generally south of the intersection of Camp Wisdom and Lake Ridge, and west of Joe Pool Lake to the Tarrant and Ellis County line in southwest Grand Prairie.
Three Mansfield ISD schools, Anna May Daulton Elementary; Louise Cabaniss Elementary; and Cora Spencer Elementary, are presently open inside the town/city limits of Grand Prairie.
The Mansfield ISD is the quickest burgeoning ISD in Tarrant County, and the populace growth in far southwest Grand Prairie is a primary factor in the Mansfield ISD's subsequent growth.
Grand Prairie students/residents in the Mansfield ISD attend Mansfield Timberview High School or Mansfield High School in the Mansfield ISD or their feeder elemetaries and junior highs.
Timberview High School is positioned on State Highway 360 less than 100 yards (91 m) from the Grand Prairie town/city line.
Texas State Highways Spur 303 (named Pioneer Parkway) and 180 (Main Street) also run east west in the northern and central portions of the city.
SH 360 runs for almost three miles in the northwestern portion of city; most of the highway runs just west of the town/city limits in Arlington.
SH 161, titled the President George Bush Turnpike, runs north south through Grand Prairie.
There is presently no enhance transit in Grand Prairie, as the town/city is not a member of DART.
They closed in 2005 and were later re-opened in June 2006 by the Grand Prairie Parks and Recreation committee.
The state-of-the-art Verizon Theatre at Grand Prairie, previously Next - Stage and Nokia Theater, is in Grand Prairie.
Prairie Lights is a 2-mile-long (3.2 km) cyclic display, featuring more than three million lights on more than 500 lighted displays.
The Grand Prairie Air - Hogs minor league baseball team and their stadium, The Ballpark in Grand Prairie, were established in Grand Prairie in May 2007 and started play in May 2008.
The historic Uptown Theatre in downtown Grand Prairie, re-opened in 2008 after a year of renovations.
The National Recreation and Parks Association (NRPA) bestowed its highest nationwide award, the Gold Medal Award, to the Grand Prairie, Texas Parks and Recreation Department at the 2008 NRPA's Congress and Exposition in Baltimore.
Grand Prairie, Texas won the award in the populace group of 100,000-250,000.
Grand Prairie is once again a finalist for the award in 2016.
Grand Prairie offers some of the best parks and recreation venues in the country.
Located near I-30 and Beltline Rd, Turner Park became Grand Prairie's Heritage (1st ever) Park back in the 1940s and today it features one of the top Disc Golf courses in North Texas.
Rodney Anderson, Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives from Grand Prairie (2011 2013); born in Grand Prairie Hayley Orrantia, actress and singer, raised in Grand Prairie Kenneth Sheets, Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives from District 107 in Dallas County; native of Grand Prairie and graduate of Grand Prairie High School "Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Enumeration Summary File 1 (G001): Grand Prairie city, Texas".
"Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Grand Prairie city, Texas".
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2013".
Grand Prairie (city), Texas, 2012 Quick - Facts "Grand Prairie, Texas Travel Weather Averages (Weatherbase)".
City of Grand Prairie CAFR Retrieved 2009-07-16 "Grand Prairie Office Complex." "US ARMED FORCES RESERVE CMPL GRAND PRAIRIE, TX 75051" Forum Drive Grand Prairie, TX 75052." "Greetings from Grand Prairie." City of Grand Prairie.
"Legendary Locals of Grand Prairie".
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