Dallas and nearbyFort Worth were initially developed as a product of the construction of major railroad lines through the area allowing access to cotton, cattle, and later oil in North andEast Texas. The construction of theInterstate Highway System reinforced Dallas's prominence as a transportation hub, with four major interstate highways converging in the city and a fifth interstate loop around it. Dallas then developed as a strong industrial and financial center and a major inland port, due to the convergence of major railroad lines, interstate highways, and the construction ofDallas Fort Worth International Airport, one of the largest andbusiest airports in the world.[14] In addition,Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) operates rail and bus transit services throughout the city and its surrounding suburbs.[15]
Dominant sectors of its diverse economy include defense, financial services, information technology, telecommunications, andtransportation.[16] The Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex hosts 23Fortune 500 companies, the second-most in Texas and fourth-most in the United States,[17][18] and 11 of those companies are located within Dallas city limits.[19]Over 41 colleges and universities are located within its metropolitan area, which is the most of any metropolitan area in Texas. The city has a population from a myriad of ethnic and religious backgrounds and is one of the largestLGBT communities in the U.S.[20][21]
Indigenous tribes inNorth Texas included theCaddo,Tawakoni,Wichita,Kickapoo andComanche.[22][23][24] Spanish colonists claimed the territory of Texas in the 18th century as a part of the Viceroyalty ofNew Spain. Later, France alsoclaimed the area but never established much settlement. In all, six flags have flown over the area preceding and during the city's history: those of France, Spain, and Mexico, the flag of the Republic of Texas, the Confederate flag, and the flag of the United States of America.[25]
Three years after Texas achieved independence,John Neely Bryan surveyed the area around present-day Dallas.[28] In 1839, accompanied by his dog and a Cherokee he called Ned, he planted a stake in the ground on a bluff located near three forks of the Trinity River and left.[29] Two years later, in 1841, he returned to establish a permanent settlement named Dallas.[30] Theorigin of the name is uncertain. The official historical marker states it was named after Vice PresidentGeorge M. Dallas ofPhiladelphia,Pennsylvania. However, this is disputed. Other potential theories for the origin include his brother,Commodore Alexander James Dallas, as well as brothers Walter R. Dallas and James R. Dallas.[31][32] A further theory gives the ultimate origin as the village ofDallas, Moray, Scotland,[b] similar to the wayHouston, Texas, was named afterSam Houston, whose ancestors came from the Scottish village ofHouston, Renfrewshire.
The Republic of Texas wasannexed by the United States in 1845 and Dallas County was established the following year. Dallas was formally incorporated as a city on February 2, 1856.[14] In the mid-1800s, a group of French Socialists establishedLa Réunion, a short-lived community, along the Trinity River in what is now West Dallas.[33]
With the construction of railroads, Dallas became a business and trading center and was booming by the end of the 19th century. It became an industrial city, attracting workers fromTexas, the South, and theMidwest. ThePraetorian Building in Dallas of 15 stories, built in 1909, was among the firstskyscrapers west ofthe Mississippi and the tallest building in Texas for some time.[34] It marked the prominence of Dallas as a city. A racetrack forthoroughbreds was built and their owners established the Dallas Jockey Club. Trotters raced at a track in Fort Worth, where a similar drivers club was based. The rapid expansion of population increased competition for jobs and housing.
In 1910, a white mob of hundreds of peoplelynched a black man,Allen Brooks, accused of raping a little girl. The mob tortured Brooks, then killed him at the downtownintersection of Main and Akard byhanging him from a decorative archway inscribed with the words "Welcome Visitors". Thousands of Dallasites came to gawk at the torture scene, collecting keepsakes and posing for photographs.[35][36]
In 1921, the Mexican presidentÁlvaro Obregón along with the former revolutionary general visited Downtown Dallas's Mexican Park inLittle Mexico; the small park was on the corner of Akard and Caruth Street, site of the current Fairmont Hotel.[37] The small neighborhood of Little Mexico was home to a Latin American population that had been drawn to Dallas by factors including theAmerican Dream, better living conditions,[38] and the Mexican Revolution.[39]Despite the onset of theGreat Depression, business in construction was flourishing in 1930. That year,Columbus Marion "Dad" Joiner struck oil 100 miles (160 km) east of Dallas inKilgore, spawning the EastTexas oil boom. Dallas quickly became the financial center for the oil industry in Texas andOklahoma.[40]
DuringWorld War II, Dallas was a major manufacturing center for military automobiles and aircraft for the United States and Allied forces. Over 94,000 jeeps and over 6,000 military trucks were produced at the Ford plant in East Dallas.[41] North American Aviation manufactured over 18,000 aircraft at their plant in Dallas, including theT-6 Texan trainer,P-51 Mustang fighter, andB-24 Liberator bomber.[42]
On July 7, 2016,multiple shots were fired at a Black Lives Matter protest in Downtown Dallas, held against the police killings of two black men from other states. The gunman, later identified as Micah Xavier Johnson, began firing at police officers at 8:58 p.m., killing five officers and injuring nine. Two bystanders were also injured. This marked the deadliest day for U.S. law enforcement since theSeptember 11 attacks. Johnson told police during a standoff that he was upset about recent police shootings of black men and wanted to kill whites, especially white officers.[45][46] After hours of negotiation failed, police resorted to a robot-delivered bomb, killing Johnson insideDallas College El Centro Campus. The shooting occurred in an area of hotels, restaurants, businesses, and residential apartments only a few blocks away from Dealey Plaza.
Several smaller structures are fashioned in theGothic Revival style, such as theKirby Building, and theneoclassical style, as seen in theDavis andWilson Buildings. One architectural "hotbed" in the city is a stretch of historic houses alongSwiss Avenue, which has all shades and variants of architecture fromVictorian to neoclassical.[50] TheDallas Downtown Historic District protects a cross-section of Dallas commercial architecture from the 1880s to the 1940s.
The city of Dallas is home to many areas, neighborhoods, and communities. Dallas can be divided into several geographical areas which include larger geographical sections of territory including many subdivisions or neighborhoods, forming macroneighborhoods.
Southwest of Downtown liesOak Cliff. Once a separate city founded in the mid-1800s, Oak Cliff was annexed in 1903 by Dallas.[53] As one of the oldest areas in Dallas, the hilly North Oak Cliff is home to 5 of the 13 conservation districts in Dallas including the architecturally significantKessler Park neighborhood and trendyBishop Arts District.
South Side Dallas is a popular location for nightly entertainment. The neighborhood has undergone extensive development and community integration. What was once an area characterized by high rates of poverty and crime is now one of the city's most attractive social and living destinations.[55][56]
Further east, in the southeast quadrant of the city, is the large neighborhood ofPleasant Grove. Once an independent city, it is a collection of mostly lower-income residential areas stretching toSeagoville in the southeast. Though a city neighborhood, Pleasant Grove is surrounded by undeveloped land on all sides. Swampland and wetlands separating it from South Dallas are part of theGreat Trinity Forest,[57] a subsection of the city'sTrinity River Project, newly appreciated for habitat andflood control.
Dallas and its surrounding area are mostly flat. The city lies at elevations ranging from 450 to 550 feet (137 to 168 m) above sea level. The western edge of the Austin Chalk Formation, alimestoneescarpment (also known as the "White Rock Escarpment"), rises 230 feet (70 m) and runs roughly north–south through Dallas County. South of theTrinity River, the uplift is particularly noticeable in the neighborhoods of Oak Cliff and the adjacent cities of Cockrell Hill,Cedar Hill,Grand Prairie, andIrving. Marked variations in terrain are also found in cities immediately to the west inTarrant County surrounding Fort Worth, as well as along Turtle Creek north of Downtown.
Dallas, like many other cities, was founded along a river. The city was founded at the location of a "white rock crossing" of the Trinity River, where it was easier for wagons to cross the river in the days before ferries or bridges. The Trinity River, though not usefully navigable, is the major waterway through the city.Interstate 35E parallels its path through Dallas along theStemmons Corridor, then south alongside the western portion of Downtown and past South Dallas and Pleasant Grove, where the river is paralleled byInterstate 45 until it exits the city and heads southeast towardsHouston. The river is flanked on both sides by 50 feet (15 m) tall earthenlevees to protect the city from frequent floods.[58]
Since it was rerouted in the late 1920s, the river has been little more than adrainage ditch within a floodplain for several miles above and below Downtown, with a more normal course further upstream and downstream, but as Dallas began shifting towards postindustrial society, public outcry about the lack of aesthetic and recreational use of the river ultimately gave way to theTrinity River Project,[59] which was begun in the early 2000s.
The project area reaches for over 20 miles (32 km) in length within the city, while the overall geographical land area addressed by the Land Use Plan is approximately 44,000 acres (180 km2) in size—about 20% of the land area in Dallas. Green space along the river encompasses approximately 10,000 acres (40 km2), making it one of the largest and diverse urban parks in the world.[60]
White Rock Lake andJoe Pool Lake are reservoirs that comprise Dallas's other significant water features. Built at the beginning of the 20th century, White Rock Lake Park is a popular destination for boaters, rowers, joggers, and bikers, as well as visitors seeking peaceful respite from the city at the 66-acre (267,000 m2)Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden, on the lake's eastern shore.White Rock Creek feeds into White Rock Lake and then exits into the Trinity River southeast of Downtown Dallas. Trails along White Rock Creek are part of the extensive Dallas County Trails System.
Dallas has ahumid subtropical climate (Köppen climate classification:Cfa,Trewartha:Cfhk) characteristic of theSouthern Plains of the United States. It also has both continental and tropical characteristics, characterized by a relatively wide annual temperature range for the latitude. Located at the lower end ofTornado Alley, it is prone to extreme weather, tornadoes, and hailstorms.
Summers in Dallas are very hot with high humidity, although extended periods of dry weather often occur. July and August are typically the hottest months, with an average high of 96.0 °F (36 °C) and an average low of 76.7 °F (25 °C). Heat indices regularly surpass 105 °F (41 °C) due to elevated humidity during the summer months, making the summer heat almost unbearable. The all-time record high is 113 °F (45 °C), set on June 26 and 27, 1980 during theHeat Wave of 1980 at nearbyDallas/Fort Worth International Airport.[66][67]
Winters in Dallas are usually mild, with occasional cold spells. The average date of first frost is November 12, and the average date of last frost is March 12.[68] January is typically the coldest month, with an average daytime high of 56.8 °F (14 °C) and an average nighttime low of 37.3 °F (3 °C). The normal daily average temperature in January is 47.0 °F (8 °C) but sharp swings in temperature can occur, as strong cold fronts known as "Blue Northers" pass through the Dallas region, forcing temperatures below the 40 °F (4 °C) mark for several days at a time and often between days with high temperatures above 80 °F (27 °C). Snow accumulation is seen in the city in about 70% of winter seasons, and snowfall generally occurs 1–2 days out of the year for a seasonal average of 1.5 inches (4 cm). Some areas in the region, however, receive more than that, while other areas receive negligible snowfall or none at all.[69] The all-time record low temperature within the city is −10 °F (−23 °C), set on February 12, 1899 during theGreat Blizzard of 1899.[70] The temperature at nearbyDallas/Fort Worth International Airport reached −2 °F (−19 °C) on February 16, 2021, duringthe February 2021 North American winter storm.
Spring and autumn are transitional seasons with moderate and pleasant weather. Vibrantwildflowers (such as thebluebonnet,Indian paintbrush and otherflora) bloom in spring and are planted around the highways throughout Texas.[71] Springtime weather can bequite volatile, but temperatures themselves are mild. Late spring to early summer also tends to be the most humid, with humidity levels frequently exceeding 75%. The weather in Dallas is also generally pleasant from late September to early December and on many winter days. Autumn often brings more storms and tornado threats, but they are usually fewer and less severe than in spring.
Each spring, cold fronts moving south from the North collide with warm, humid air streaming in from theGulf Coast, leading to severethunderstorms withlightning, torrents of rain,hail, and occasionally,tornadoes. Over time, tornadoes have probably been the most significant natural threat to the city, as it is near the heart ofTornado Alley.
A few times each winter in Dallas, warm and humid air from the south will override cold, dry air, resulting infreezing rain or ice and causing disruptions in the city if the roads and highways become slick. Temperatures reaching 70 °F (21 °C) on average occur on at least four days each winter month. Dallas averages 26 annual nights at or below freezing,[66] with the winter of 1999–2000 holding the record for the fewest freezing nights with 14. 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.[66]
The average daily low in Dallas is 57.4 °F (14 °C), and the average daily high is 76.9 °F (25 °C). Dallas receives approximately 39.1 inches (993 mm) of rain per year. The record snowfall for Dallas was 11.2 inches (28 cm) on February 11, 2010.
There were 524,498 households at the 2020 estimates,[83] up from 2010's 458,057 households, out of which 137,523 had children under the age of 18 living with them.[84] Approximately 36.2% of households were headed by married couples living together, 57.2% had a single householder male or female with no spouse present, and 35.6% were classified as non-family households with the householder living alone.[83] In 2010, 33.7% of all households had one or more people under 18 years of age, and 17.6% had one or more people who were 65 years of age or older. The average household size in 2020 was 2.52 and the average family size was 3.41.[84] In 2018, the owner-occupied housing rate was 40.2% and the renter-occupied housing rate was 59.8%.[85] At the 2010 census, the city's age distribution of the population showed 26.5% under the age of 18 and 8.8% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 31.8 years. In 2010, 50.0% of the population was male and 50.0% was female.[86] In 2020, the median age 32.9 years; for every 100 females, there were 98.4 males.[87]
According to the 2020American Community Survey, the median income for a household in the city was $54,747; families had a median household income of $60,895; married-couple families $81,761; and non-families $45,658.[88] In 2003–2007's survey, male full-time workers had a median income of $32,265 versus $32,402 for female full-time workers. The per capita income for the city was $25,904. About 18.7% of families and 21.7% of the population were below the poverty line, including 33.6% of those under age 18 and 13.4% of those aged 65 or over. Per 2007's survey, the median price for a house was $129,600;[89] by 2020, the median price for a house was valued at $252,300, with 54.4% of owner-occupied units from $50,000 to $299,999.[90]
The 2022Point-In-Time Homeless Count found there were 4,410homeless people in Dallas.[91][92] According to the Metro Dallas Homeless Alliance Continuum of Care 2022 Homeless Count & Survey Independent Analysis, "approximately 1 of 3 (31%) those experiencing homelessness were found on the streets or in other places not meant for human habitation."[92]
The region surrounding Dallas is a habitat for mosquitoes, creating a pest problem for humans. Dallas and the surrounding area is sprayed regularly to control mosquito-borne diseases such asWest Nile virus.[93]
Map of racial distribution in Dallas, 2010 U.S. census. Each dot is 25 people:⬤ White⬤ Black⬤ Asian⬤ Hispanic⬤ Other
Dallas's population was historically predominantly White (non-Hispanic Whites made up 82.8% of the population in 1930),[97] but its population has diversified due to immigration andwhite flight over the 20th century. Since then, the non-Hispanic White population has declined to less than one-third of the city's population.[98] According to the 2010 U.S. census, 50.7% of the population was White (28.8% non-Hispanic White), 24.8% was Black or African American, 0.7%American Indian andAlaska Native, 2.9% Asian, and 2.6% fromtwo or more races; 42.4% of the total population was of Hispanic or Latino American origin (they may be of any race).[99]
At theU.S. Census Bureau's 2019 estimates, 29.1% werenon-Hispanic White 24.3% Black and African American, 0.3% American Indian or Alaska Native, 3.7% Asian, and 1.4% from two or more races.[100]Native Hawaiian andother Pacific Islanders made up a total of 312 residents according to 2019's census estimates, down from 606 in 2017.[101] Hispanic or Latino Americans of any race made up 41.2% of the estimated population in 2019. Among the Hispanic or Latino American population in 2019, 34.6% of Dallas wasMexican, 0.4%Puerto Rican, 0.2%Cuban and 6.0% other Hispanic or Latino American. In 2017's American Community Survey estimates among the demographic 35.5% were Mexican, 0.6% Puerto Rican, 0.4% Cuban, and 5.4% other Hispanic or Latino.[102] By 2020, Hispanic or Latino Americans of any race continued to constitute the largest ethnic group in the city proper,[94] reflecting nationwide demographic trends.[103][104][105]
The Dallas area is a major living destination forMexican Americans and other Hispanic and Latino American immigrants. The southwestern portion of the city, particularlyOak Cliff is chiefly inhabited by Hispanic and Latino American residents.[106][107] The southeastern portion of the cityPleasant Grove is chiefly inhabited by African American and Hispanic or Latino American residents, while thesouthern portion of the city is predominantly black.[108][109] The west and east sides of the city are predominantly Hispanic or Latino American;Garland also has a large Spanish-speaking population.North Dallas has many enclaves of predominantly white, black and especially Hispanic or Latino American residents.
The Dallas area is also a major living destination for Black and African Americans primarily due to its strong and diverse economy.[110][111] Between 2010 and 2020, the Dallas area had the second-most new Black and African American residents only behind theAtlanta area and slightly above the Houston area.[112] The notable influx of African Americans is partly due to theNew Great Migration.[113] There is a significant number of people from theHorn of Africa, immigrants fromEthiopia,Eritrea andSomalia.[114]
The Dallas–Fort-Worth metroplex had an estimated 70,000 Russian-speakers (as of November 6, 2012) mostly immigrants from the formerSoviet Bloc.[115] Included in this population areRussians,Russian Jews,Ukrainians,Belarusians,Moldavians,Uzbek,Kirghiz, and others. The Russian-speaking population of Dallas has continued to grow in the sector of "American husbands-Russian wives". Russian DFW has its own newspaper,The Dallas Telegraph.[116][117]
In addition, Dallas and its suburbs are home to a large number of Asian Americans including those ofIndian,Vietnamese,Chinese,Korean,Filipino,Japanese, and other heritage.[118][119] Among large-sized cities in the United States,Plano, the northern suburb of Dallas, has the6th largest Chinese American population as of 2016. The Plano-Richardson area in particular had an estimated 30,000Iranian Americans in 2012.[120][121] With so many immigrant groups, there are often multilingual signs in thelinguistic landscape. According to U.S. Census Bureau data released in December 2013, 23 percent of Dallas County residents were foreign-born, while 16 percent of Tarrant County residents were foreign-born.[122] The 2018 census estimates determined that the city of Dallas's foreign-born population consisted of 25.4% naturalized citizens and 74.6% non-citizens.[123]
Recognized for having one of the largestlesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) populations in the nation, Dallas and the Metroplex are widely noted for being home to a vibrant and diverseLGBT community.[124][125] Throughout the year there are many well-established but quite small compared to other cities LGBT events held in the area, most notably the annual Alan Ross Texas Freedom (Pride) Parade and Festival in June which draws approximately 50,000.[126][127] For decades, theOak Lawn andBishop Arts districts have been known as the epicenters ofLGBT culture in Dallas.[128]
Christianity is the most prevalently practiced religion in Dallas and the wider metropolitan area according to a 2014 study by thePew Research Center (78%),[130][131] and thePublic Religion Research Institute's 2020 study (77%).[132] There is a largeProtestant Christian influence in the Dallas community, though the city of Dallas and Dallas County have more Catholic than Protestant residents, while the reverse is usually true for the suburban areas of Dallas and the city of Fort Worth.
Dallas has been called the "Prison Ministry Capital of the World" by the prison ministry community.[133] It is a home for theInternational Network of Prison Ministries, the Coalition of Prison Evangelists, Bill Glass Champions for Life, Chaplain Ray's International Prison Ministry, and 60 other prison ministries.[134]
Since the establishment of the city's first Jewish cemetery in 1854 and its first congregation (which would eventually be known asTemple Emanu-El) in 1873, Dallasite Jews have been well represented among leaders in commerce, politics, and various professional fields in Dallas and elsewhere.[143][144] Furthermore, a largeMuslim community exists in the north and northeastern portions of Dallas, as well as in thenorthern Dallas suburbs.[145] The oldest mosque in Dallas is Masjid Al-Islam just south of Downtown.[146][147]
Dallas has a large Buddhist community. Immigrants fromEast Asia,Southeast Asia,Nepal, andSri Lanka have all contributed to the Buddhist population, which is concentrated in the northern suburbs ofGarland,Plano andRichardson. 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 ofArlington. A large and growing Hindu Community lives in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex. Most live in Collin County and the northern portions of Dallas County. Over 28 Hindu Temples exist in the area. Some notable ones include the DFW Hindu Temple, theNorth Texas Hindu Mandir,Radha Krishna Temple, Dallas andKarya Siddhi Hanuman Temple.[148] There are also at least threeSikhGurudwaras in this metropolitan area.[149][150][151] For irreligious people, the Winter Solstice Celebration is held in the Metroplex although some of its participants are alsoneo-pagans andNew Agers.[152]
Crime
According to the FBI, a city to city comparison of crime rates can be misleading, because recording practices vary from city to city, citizens report different percentages of crimes from one city to the next, and the actual number of people physically present in a city is unknown.[153] With that in mind, Dallas has one of the top 10 crime rates in Texas and its crime rate is higher than the national average.[154][155]
Since 2020, Dallas's murder rate has seen a notable increase. In 2020, Dallas recorded 251 murders which was a 20-year high. By 2022 it decreased to 214 but then increased to 246 in 2023.[156] As of 2020, the gang presence in Dallas has grown significantly and is heavily responsible for the spike in crime.[157] Dallas leaders have made crime reduction a major priority.[158][159]
In its beginnings, Dallas relied on farming, neighboringFort Worth'sStockyards, and its prime location on Native American trade routes to sustain itself. Dallas's key to growth came in 1873 with the construction of multiplerail lines through the city. As Dallas grew and technology developed, cotton became its boon and by 1900, Dallas was the largest inland cotton market in the world, becoming a leader incotton gin machinery manufacturing.
By the early 1900s, Dallas was a hub for economic activity all over the Southern United States and was selected in 1914 as the seat of theEleventh Federal Reserve District. By 1925, Texas churned out more than1⁄3 of the nation's cotton crop, with 31% of Texas cotton produced within a 100-mile (160 km)radius of Dallas. In the 1930s, petroleum was discovered east of Dallas, nearKilgore. Dallas's proximity to the discovery put it immediately at the center of the nation's petroleum market. Petroleum discoveries in thePermian Basin, thePanhandle, theGulf Coast, andOklahoma in the following years further solidified Dallas's position as the hub of the market.[161]
The end ofWorld War II left Dallas seeded with a nexus of communications, engineering, and production talent by companies such as Collins Radio Corporation. Decades later, the telecommunications and information revolutions still drive a large portion of the local economy. The 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 theTelecom Corridor inRichardson, a northern suburb of Dallas. The Telecom Corridor is home to more than 5,700 companies includingTexas Instruments (headquartered in Dallas),Nortel Networks,Alcatel Lucent,AT&T,Ericsson,Fujitsu,Nokia,Rockwell Collins,Cisco Systems,T-Mobile,Verizon Communications, andCompUSA (which is now headquartered inMiami,Florida).[162] Texas Instruments, a major manufacturer, employs 10,400 people at its corporate headquarters and chip plants in Dallas.[163]
In the 1980s Dallas was a real estate hotbed, with the increasing metropolitan population bringing with it a demand for new housing and office space. Several ofDowntown Dallas's largest buildings are the fruit of this boom, but over-speculation, thesavings and loan crisis and an oil bust brought the 1980s building boom to an end for Dallas as well as its sister city Houston. Between the late 1980s and the early 2000s, central Dallas went through a slow period of growth. However, since the early 2000s the central core of Dallas has been enjoying steady and significant growth encompassing both repurposing of older commercial buildings in Downtown Dallas into residential and hotel uses, as well as the construction of new office and residential towers. The opening ofKlyde Warren Park, built acrossWoodall Rodgers Freeway seamlessly connecting the central Dallas CBD to Uptown/Victory Park, has acted synergistically with the highly successful Dallas Arts District, so both have become catalysts for significant new development in central Dallas.
The residential real estate market in theDallas–Fort Worth metroplex has not only been resilient but has once again returned to a boom status. Dallas and the greater metro area have been leading the nation in apartment construction and net leasing, with rents reaching all-time highs. Single family home sales, whether pre-owned or new construction, along with home price appreciation, were leading the nation since 2015.[164][165]
A sudden drop in the price of oil, starting in mid-2014 and accelerating throughout 2015, has not significantly affected Dallas and its greater metro area due to the highly diversified nature of its economy. Dallas and the metropolitan region continue to see strong demand for housing, apartment and office leasing, shopping center space, warehouse and industrial space with overall job growth remaining very robust. Oil-dependent cities and regions have felt significant effects from the downturn, but Dallas's growth has continued unabated, strengthening in 2015. Significant national headquarters relocations to the area (as exemplified by Toyota's decision to leaveCalifornia and establish its new North American headquarters in the Dallas area) coupled with significant expansions of regional offices for a variety of corporations and along with company relocations to Downtown Dallas helped drive the boom in the Dallas economy.
Major businesses
The Dallas–Fort Worth area has one of the largest concentrations of corporate headquarters for publicly traded companies in the United States.Fortune Magazine's 2022 annual list of the Fortune 500 in America indicates the city of Dallas had 11 Fortune 500 companies,.[19] and the DFW region as a whole had 23.[18] As of 2022, Dallas–Fort Worth represents the second-largest concentration of Fortune 500 headquarters in Texas and fourth-largest in the United States, behind the metropolitan areas ofHouston (24),Chicago (35) andNew York (62).[18]
In 2008,AT&T relocated their headquarters to Downtown Dallas;[166] AT&T is the largest telecommunications company in the world and was the ninth largest company in the nation by revenue for 2017.[167] AdditionalFortune 500 companies headquartered in Dallas in order of ranking includeEnergy Transfer Equity,CBRE (which moved its headquarters from Los Angeles to Dallas in 2020),[168][169]Tenet Healthcare,Southwest Airlines, Texas Instruments,Jacobs Engineering,HollyFrontier,Dean Foods, and Builders FirstSource. In October 2016, Jacobs Engineering, one of the world's largest engineering companies, relocated fromPasadena, California to Downtown Dallas.[170]
In addition to its large number of businesses, Dallas has more shopping centers per capita than any other city in the United States and is also home to the second shopping center ever built in the United States,Highland Park Village, which opened in 1931.[179] Dallas is home of the two other major malls in North Texas, theDallas Galleria andNorthPark Center, which is the second largest mall in Texas. Both malls feature high-end stores and are major tourist draws for the region.[180][181]
Travel
Dallas is the third most popular destination for business travel in the United States, and theKay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center is one of the largest and busiest convention centers in the country, at over 1,000,000 square feet (93,000 m2), and the world's single-largest column-free exhibit hall.[182]VisitDallas is the501(c)(6) organization contracted to promote tourism and attract conventions but an audit released in January 2019 cast doubts on its effectiveness in achieving those goals.[183]
Tourism is an important sector of Dallas's economy and is its tenth largest employer, providing 56,000 jobs.[184] Dallas receives on average 25 million visitors annually.[185]
ThePerot Museum of Nature and Science, also in Downtown Dallas, is anatural history andscience museum. Designed by 2005 Pritzker Architecture Prize LaureateThom Mayne and his firm Morphosis Architects, the 180,000-square-foot (17,000 m2) facility has six floors and stands about 14 stories high.
Not far north of the area is theMeadows Museum at Southern Methodist University. In 2009, it joined up with Madrid'sPrado Museum for a three-year partnership. The Prado focuses on Spanish visual art and has a collection of Spanish art in North America, with works by de Juanes, El Greco, Fortuny, Goya, Murillo, Picasso, Pkensa, Ribera, Rico, Velasquez, Zurbaran, and other Spaniards.
These works, as well as non-Spanish highlights like sculptures by Rodin and Moore, have been so successful of a collaboration that the Prado and Meadows have agreed upon an extension of the partnership.[189]
Deep Ellum, immediately east of Downtown, originally became popular during the 1920s and 1930s as the primejazz andblues hot spot in theSouth.[192] Artists such asBlind Lemon Jefferson,Robert Johnson, Huddie "Lead Belly" Ledbetter, andBessie Smith played in original Deep Ellum clubs such as the Harlem and the Palace. Today, Deep Ellum is home to hundreds of artists who live in lofts and operate in studios throughout the district alongside bars, pubs, and concert venues.[193]
A major art infusion in the area results from the city's lax stance ongraffiti, and a number of public spaces, including tunnels, sides of buildings, sidewalks, and streets, are covered in murals. One major example, the Good-Latimer tunnel, was torn down in late 2006 to accommodate the construction of alight rail line through the site.[194]
Like Deep Ellum before it, theCedars neighborhood to the south of Downtown has also seen a growing population of studio artists and an expanding roster of entertainment venues. The area's art scene began to grow in the early 2000s with the opening of Southside on Lamar, an old Sears Roebuck and Company warehouse converted into lofts, studios, and retail.[195]
Current attractions include Gilley's Dallas and Poor David's Pub.[196][197]Dallas Mavericks owner and local entrepreneurMark Cuban purchased land along Lamar Street nearCedars Station in September 2005, and locals speculate he is planning an entertainment complex for the site.[198]
South of the Trinity River, the Bishop Arts District inOak Cliff is home to a number of studio artists living in converted warehouses. Walls of buildings along alleyways and streets are painted with murals, and the surrounding streets contain many eclectic restaurants and shops.[199]
Dallas has an Office of Cultural Affairs as a department of the city government. The office is responsible for six cultural centers throughout the city, funding for local artists and theaters, initiating public art projects, and running the city-ownedclassical radio stationWRR.[200] TheLos Angeles-class submarineUSSDallas was planned to become a museum ship near the Trinity River after her decommissioning in September 2014, but this has since been delayed.[201] It will be taken apart into massive sections in Houston and be transported by trucks to the museum site and will be put back together.
The city is served by theDallas Public Library system. The system was created by the Dallas Federation of Women's Clubs with efforts spearheaded by then presidentMay Dickson Exall. Her fundraising efforts led to a grant from philanthropist and steel baronAndrew Carnegie, which allowed the library system to build its first branch in 1901.[202]
With the opening ofVictory Park,WFAA began hosting an annual New Year's Eve celebration in AT&T Plaza that the television station hoped would be reminiscent of celebrations in New York'sTimes Square; New Year's Eve 2011 set a new record of 32,000 people in attendance.[207]
After the discontinuance of the "Big D NYE" festivities a few years later, a new end-of-year event was started downtown, with a big fireworks show put on atReunion Tower, which has since aired onKXAS and other TV stations around the state and region. Also, several Omni hotels in the Dallas area host large events to welcome in the new year, including murder mystery parties, rave-inspired events, and other events.
Since joining the league as an expansion team in 1960, the Cowboys have enjoyed substantial success, advancing to eightSuper Bowls and winning five. The Cowboys are financially the most valuable sports franchise in the world, worth approximately $4 billion.[210] In 2009, they relocated to their new 80,000-seat stadium in Arlington, which was the site ofSuper Bowl XLV[211] and is set to host the most matches during the2026 FIFA World Cup.[212][213] The Cowboys are currently part of theEast Division of theNational Football Conference (NFC).
TheDallas Renegades are a professional football team in the relaunchedXFL that plays their home games atGlobe Life Park, the former home of the Texas Rangers.[216]
Dallas maintains and operates 406 parks on 21,000 acres (85 km2) of parkland.[225][226]The city's parks contain 17 separate lakes, includingWhite Rock andBachman lakes, spanning a total of 4,400 acres (17.81 km2). In addition, Dallas is traversed by 61.6 miles (99.1 km) of biking and jogging trails, including theKaty Trail, and is home to 47 community 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 as of 2013.[227]
Fair Park
Dallas's flagship park isFair Park. Built in 1936 for theTexas Centennial Expositionworld's fair, Fair Park is the world's largest collection ofArt Deco exhibit buildings, art, and sculptures; Fair Park is also home to theState Fair of Texas, the largest state fair in the United States with 2 million visitors.[228] In November 2019, consultants presented to the public a master plan to revitalize the area.[229]
Named after Klyde Warren, the young son of billionaireKelcy Warren, the 5.2-acreKlyde Warren Park was built aboveWoodall Rodgers Freeway and connectsUptown and Downtown, specifically the Arts District. Klyde Warren Park is home to anamphitheater, jogging trails, a children's park, a dog park, a putting green,croquet, ping pong, chess, an outdoor library, and two restaurants. Food trucks give another option of dining and are lined along the park's Downtown side. There are also weekly planned events, includingyoga,Zumba, skyline tours,tai chi, andmeditation.[230] Klyde Warren Park is home to a free trolley stop on Olive St., which riders can connect to Downtown, McKinney Avenue, andWest Village.
Built in 1913, Turtle Creek Parkway park is a 23.7-acre (9.6 ha) linear park in between Turtle Creek and Turtle Creek Boulevard in the aptly namedTurtle Creek neighborhood.[231] Archaeological surveys discovered dart points and flint chips dating 3,000 years to 1,000 BCE. This site was later discovered to be home to Native Americans who cherished the trees and natural spring water. The park is across Turtle Creek fromKalita Humphreys Theater, designed byFrank Lloyd Wright.
Opened on July 4, 1906, Lake Cliff Park was called "the Southwest's Greatest Playground". The park was home to an amusement park, a large pool, waterslides, the world's largest skating rink, and three theaters, the largest being the 2,500-seat Casino Theater. After the streetcar bridge that brought most of the park visitors collapsed, Lake Cliff Park was sold. The Casino Theater moved and the pool was demolished after a polio scare in 1959. The pool was Dallas's first municipal pool.[232]
Reverchon Park
In 1935, Dallas purchased 36 acres (15 ha) from John Cole's estate to developReverchon Park.[233] Reverchon Park was named after botanist Julien Reverchon, who left France to live in the La Reunion colony, which was founded in the mid-1800s[234] and was situated in present-day West Dallas. Reverchon Park was planned to be the crown jewel of the Dallas park system and was even referred to as the "Central Park" of Dallas. Improvements were made throughout the years, including the Iris Bowl, picnic settings, a baseball diamond, and tennis courts. The Iris Bowl celebrated many Greek pageants, dances, and other performances. The Gill Well was installed for nearby residents and drew people all across Texas who wanted to experience the water's healing powers.[235] The baseball diamond was host to a 1953 exhibition game for theNew York Giants and theCleveland Indians.[236]
As part of the ongoingTrinity River Project, the Great Trinity Forest, at 6,000 acres (24 km2), is the largest urban hardwood forest in the United States and is part of the largest urban park in the United States.[57] The Trinity River Audubon Center is a new addition to the park. Opened in 2008, it serves as a gateway to many trails and other nature-viewing activities in the area. The Trinity River Audubon Center is the first LEED-certified building built by the City of Dallas Parks and Recreation Department.
Katy Trail
Named after its former railroad name, the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad (or "MKT" Railroad), the 3.5-mile (5.6 km) stretch of railroad was purchased by the city of Dallas and transformed into the city's premier trail. Stretching fromVictory Park, the 30-acre (12 ha)Katy Trail passes through theTurtle Creek and Knox Park neighborhoods and runs along the east side ofHighland Park. The trail ends atCentral Expressway, but extensions are underway to extend the trail to the White Rock Lake Trail inLakewood.[232]
Preserves
Dallas hosts three of the twenty-one preserves of the extensive 3,200 acres (13 km2) Dallas County Preserve System. The Joppa Preserve, the McCommas Bluff Preserve, and the Cedar Ridge Preserve are within the Dallas city limits. The Cedar Ridge Preserve was known as the Dallas Nature Center, but the Audubon Dallas group now manages the 633-acre (2.56 km2) natural habitat park on behalf of the city of Dallas and Dallas County. The preserve sits at an elevation of 755 feet (230 m) above sea level and offers a variety of outdoor activities, including 10 miles (16 km) of hiking trails and picnic areas.
Dallas Zoo
The city is also home to Texas's first and largest zoo, the 106-acre (0.43 km2)Dallas Zoo, which opened at its current location in 1888.[237][238]
The city uses acouncil-manager government, withEric Johnson serving as mayor,[239] Kimberly Tolbert serving as city manager,[240] and 14 council members serving as representatives to the 14 council districts in the city.[241][242][243] This organizational structure was contested by some in favor of a strong-mayor city charter,[244] only to be rejected by Dallas voters.[245] In 1969, Anita N. Martínez become the first Latin American to sit as a councilwoman in Dallas's city council.[246]
In the 2017–2018 fiscal year, the city's totalbudget (the sum ofoperating and capital budgets) was $3.3 billion.[247] The city has seen a steady increase in its budget due to sustained growth: the budget was $1.7 billion in 2002–2003,[248] $1.9 billion in 2003–2004,[248] $2.0 billion in 2004–2005,[249] and $2.2 billion in 2005–2006.[249]
Federal and state representation
National and state legislators representing Dallas:
Since 2023, Dallas has been the largest city in the United States with aRepublican mayor after Eric Johnson switched parties afterwinning re-election. He ran and was elected as a Democrat.[g] However, the city is normally aDemocratic stronghold, with over 69% of voters supportingJoe Biden in the2020 presidential election and 67% of voters supportingHillary Clinton in the2016 presidential election (excluding write-ins).[253]Democratic voters dominate the majority of the city, especially thecentralurban core andsouthern sectors, withRepublicans spreading a sliver of suburban neighborhoods inNorth Dallas. In the2004 U.S. presidential election, 57% of Dallas voters voted forJohn Kerry overGeorge W. Bush.[254] Dallas County was closely divided, with 50% of voters voting for Bush and 49% voting for Kerry.[255] Results in the 2008 and 2012 elections favoredBarack Obama, with the 44th President receiving 57% of Dallas County voters in both years, with greater margins in the city of Dallas. In the 2016 U.S. presidential election, approximately 66% of Dallas voters voted forHillary Clinton, with 28% of city voters voting forDonald Trump.[253] Dallas County as a whole saw 61% of voters voting for Clinton, with 35% support for Trump.[253] In 2004,Lupe Valdez was elected Dallas CountySheriff. An open lesbian, Valdez was the only female sheriff in the state of Texas until her resignation. Despite controversies in her handling of county jails, she won re-election in 2008 with a 10-point victory over Republican challenger Lowell Cannaday.[256] In the2024 United States presidential election, Donald Trump, achieved 34.1% of the vote in the city of Dallas. This marked the highest level of support for a Republican candidate in the city since the 2012 election, whenMitt Romney received a comparable percentage. This is most likely have attributed Trump’s performance in Dallas in part to a notable shift in Hispanic voter preferences within Texas. Trump garnered an estimated 55% of the Hispanic vote statewide, a significant improvement from his performance among Hispanic voters in 2016.[257]
There are 337 public schools, 89 private schools, 38 colleges, and 32 libraries in Dallas.[263] Dallas–Fort Worth is also home to six Nobel Laureates.[264]
The Dallas area has a high number of colleges and universities. In addition to those in the city, the surrounding cities also have a number of universities, colleges, trade schools, and other educational institutions. The following describes the universities and their proximity to the city:
Texas Woman's University has operated a nursing school in Dallas atParkland Memorial Hospital since 1966. The T. Boone Pickens Institute of Health Sciences-Dallas Center (IHSD) was opened in 2011 and is a purpose-built educational facility that replaced the building TWU had used since 1966. TWU also operated an occupational therapy school atPresbyterian Hospital of Dallas from 1977 through 2011 before consolidating those functions into the new IHSD building at Parkland.[267]
Paul Quinn College is a private, historicallyblack college in southeast Dallas. Originally located inWaco, Texas, it moved to Dallas in 1990 and is housed on the campus of the formerBishop College, another private, historically black college. Dallas billionaire and entrepreneurComer Cottrell Jr., founder of ProLine Corporation, bought the campus of Bishop College and bequeathed it to Paul Quinn College in 1990 making it the only historically black college in the Dallas area.[268]
Dallas Baptist University is a private university in the Mountain Creek area of southwest Dallas. Originally inDecatur, Texas, the school moved to Dallas in 1965.[272] The school enrolls over 5,600 students,[273] and offers undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral degrees. Popular subjects include Biblical studies, business, and music degrees. DBU has been recognized by the National Council on Teacher Quality for their high-quality teacher preparatory degrees.[274] The school also maintains an Intensive English Program for international students wishing to enhance their knowledge of the English language. The campus is aTree Campus USA and is recognized as one of the most beautiful university campuses in the Southwest U.S.[275] The school has also become nationally recognized for its baseball team which has made several playoff runs.
Dallas Theological Seminary, also within the city limits, is recognized as one of the leading seminaries inEvangelical Protestantism. Situated 3 miles (5 km) east of Downtown Dallas, it has over 2,000 graduate students and has graduated over 12,000 alumni.
Criswell College is within two blocks of Dallas Theological Seminary. Criswell was started by First Baptist Church of Dallas in the early 1970s.
The University of Dallas, in the suburb ofIrving, is an enclave of Roman Catholicism in the majority Protestant religious landscape of Dallas–Fort Worth. St. Albert the Great Dominican Priory andHoly Trinity Seminary are on campus, while theCistercian Monastery and Cistercian Preparatory School are just north of the UD campus acrossTexas State Highway 114.The Highlands School, a PK–12Legionary school, is just west of the UD campus and connects to campus by jogging trails. As a center for religious study, the Cistercian Monastery continues to be notable for scholastic developments in theology.
Located in Downtown Dallas,El Centro College is the flagship institution of theDallas County Community College District. El Centro first opened its campus doors in 1966 and now enrolls over 10,000 students. El Centro was the first college of the DCCCD to offer a nursing program and has established relationships with several top-notch hospitals in the Dallas area. The college is also the only campus within DCCCD that offers a Food & Hospitality Program as well as renowned programs in fashion design and fashion marketing.[276]
Most areas in the city of Dallas are within theDallas Independent School District,[278] the 12th-largest school district in the United States and second largest in Texas.[279] The school district operates independently of the city and enrolls over 161,000 students.[279] As of 2003 DISD has the majority of K–12 students in the city of Dallas, and a proportionately larger number of students who are notnon-Hispanic white.[280] One of the district'smagnet schools, theSchool for the Talented and Gifted in Oak Cliff.
Many school districts inDallas County, including Dallas ISD, were formerly served by a governmental agency calledDallas County Schools. The system provided busing and other transportation services, access to a massive media library, technology services, strong ties to local organizations for education/community integration, and staff development programs.[286]
Private schools
Students from Dallas attend many private schools in Dallas, and in nearby areas. These schools include:
Dallas has several local newspapers, magazines, television stations and radio stations that serve the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, which is the fifth-largestmedia market in the United States.[287] Dallas has one major daily newspaper,The Dallas Morning News, which was founded in 1885 byA. H. Belo and is A. H. Belo's flagship newspaper.
TheDallas Times Herald, started in 1888, was theMorning News' major competitor until Belo purchased it on December 8, 1991, and closed the paper down the next day. Other daily newspapers areAl Día, a Spanish-language paper published by Belo, and a number of ethnic newspapers printed in languages such asChinese,Korean, andVietnamese.
Other publications include theDallas Weekly and theElite News, all weekly news publications. TheDallas Observer and theNorth Texas Journal are also alternative weekly newspapers.The Dallas Morning News formerly had a weekly publication,Neighborsgo, which came out every Friday and focused on community news. Readers could post stories and contribute content to the website.
D Magazine is a notable monthly magazine about business, life, and entertainment in Dallas–Fort Worth. Local visitor magazines include "WHERE Magazine" and "Travelhost"–available at hotel desks or in guest rooms. In addition, the park cities and suburbs such as Plano also have their own community newspapers. Also,THE Magazine covers the contemporary arts scene.[288]
In terms of the larger metro area, theFort Worth Star-Telegram is another major daily newspaper, coveringFort Worth's metropolitan division. It also publishes a major Spanish-language newspaper for the entire metro area known asLa Estrella.[289] To the north of Dallas and Fort Worth, theDenton Record-Chronicle primarily covers news for thecity of Denton andDenton County.
Over 101 radio stations operate within range of Dallas.[290] The city of Dallas operatesWRR 101.1 FM, the area's main classical music station, from city offices inFair Park.[291] Its original sister station, licensed asWRR-AM in 1921, is the oldest commercially operated radio station in Texas and the second-oldest in the United States, afterKDKA (AM) in Pittsburgh.[292]KKDA-FM (K104), anurban contemporary station, andKRNB (Smooth R&B 105.7), anurban adult contemporary station, are owned independently by Service Broadcasting Corporation.
Because of the city's central geographical position and lack of nearby mountainous terrain, high-powerclass Amedium-wave stationsKRLD andWBAP can broadcast as far as southern Canada at night and can be used for emergency messages when broadcasting is down in other major metropolitan areas in the United States.
Slavic Voice of America media group serves Russian-speaking Americans out of Dallas. Hispanic Broadcasting Corporation (HBC), the largest company in the Spanish-language radio station business, is based in Dallas.[293] In 2003, HBC was acquired by Univision and became Univision Radio Inc., but the radio company remains headquartered in the city.[294]
TheDallas Police Department provides most policing in Dallas. The Dallas interim chief of police is Michael Igo.[295] The police headquarters are in the Cedars neighborhood of southern Dallas.
Emergency medical services and fire protection in the city are provided by theDallas Fire-Rescue Department. The Dallas Fire & Rescue chief is Dominique Artis.[296] The department operates the Dallas Firefighter's Museum built in 1907 along Parry Avenue near Fair Park. Dallas's oldest remaining fire station building still stands at the corner of McKinney Ave. and Leonard and was built in 1892. It was the home of Engine Co. Number 1, and is now a picture framing shop.
Dallas also has aVA hospital in the southern portion of the city, the Dallas Veterans Affairs Medical Center. The center is home to aConsolidated Mail Outpatient Pharmacy (CMOP), part of an initiative by the Department of Veterans Affairs to provide mail-order prescriptions to veterans using computerization at strategic locations throughout the United States.
The city offers garbage pickup and recycling service weekly through its Sanitation Services department.[300] Telephone networks, broadband internet, and cable television service are available from several companies, includingAT&T,Spectrum, andVerizon FiOS.
Like many other major cities in the United States, the automobile is the primary mode of local transportation, though efforts have been made to increase the availability of alternative modes of transportation, including the construction of light rail lines, biking and walking paths, wide sidewalks, a trolley system, and buses.
In 2009, 78.5% of Dallas (city) commuters drive to work alone. The 2009mode share for Dallas (city) commuters are 10.7% for carpooling, 3.9% for transit, 1.9% for walking, and .1% for cycling.[301] In 2015, the American Community Survey estimated modal shares for Dallas (city) commuters of 75.4% for driving alone, 12.8% for carpooling, 3.5% for riding transit, 1.9% for walking, and .2% for cycling.[302]
The city of Dallas has a higher than average percentage of households without a car. In 2015, 10.2 percent of Dallas households lacked a car, and decreased to 9.1 percent in 2016. The national average was 8.7 percent in 2016. Dallas averaged 1.59 cars per household in 2016, compared to a national average of 1.8.[303]
Highways
Dallas is at the confluence of four majorinterstate highways—Interstates20,30,35E, and45. The Dallas area freeway system is set up in the popularhub-and-spoke system, shaped much like a wagon wheel. Starting from the center of the city, a small freeway loop surrounds Downtown, followed by theI-635 loop about 10 miles (16 km) outside Downtown, and ultimately the tolledPresident George Bush Turnpike.
Inside these freeway loops are otherboulevard- andparkway-style loops, includingLoop 12 andBelt Line Road. Another beltway around the city upwards of 45 miles (72 km) from Downtown is under plan in Collin County.
The recently completed interchange at the intersection of Lyndon B. Johnson Freeway (I-635) and theCentral Expressway (US 75) has five stacks and is aptly called theHigh Five Interchange. It is one of the few five-level interchanges in Dallas and is one of the largest freeway interchanges in the United States.
The following is a list of the freeways and tollways in the Dallas-Fort Worth area:
Two commercial airports serve Dallas:Dallas Fort Worth International Airport andDallas Love Field. In addition,Dallas Executive Airport (formerly Redbird Airport), serves as ageneral aviation airport for the city, andAddison Airport functions similarly just outside the city limits in the suburb of Addison. Two more general aviation airports are about 35 miles (56 km) north of Dallas inMcKinney, and another two are inFort Worth, on the west side of the metroplex.Alliance Airport, in far North Fort Worth, is a cargo reliever airport to DFW Airport and general aviation facility.
DFW Airport is in the suburbs slightly north of and equidistant to Downtown Fort Worth and Downtown Dallas. In terms of size, DFW International is the largest airport in the state, the second largest in the United States, and ninth largest in the world; DFW International Airport is larger than the island ofManhattan.[305]
Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) is the Dallas-area public transportation authority that provides rail, buses andHOV lanes to commuters. DART began operating the firstlight rail system in Texas in 1996, and it is now the largest operator of light rail in the US.[306] Today, the system is theseventh-busiest light rail system in the country with approximately 55 stations on 72 miles (116 km) of light rail, and 10 stations on 35 miles (56 km) of commuter rail.[307] It includes four light rail lines and a commuter line: theRed Line, theBlue Line, theGreen Line, theOrange Line, and theTrinity Railway Express.
The Orange Line initially operated as a peak-service line providing extra capacity on portions of the Green and Red Lines (Bachman Station on the Green Line, through the Downtown transit mall, toParker Road Station on the Red Line making a "U"-shape). However, the first stage of the Orange Line opened on December 6, 2010, extending its west end from Bachman toBelt Line Station in Irving. The second and final phase opened in August 2014 and providedDFW Airport with rail service.DFW Airport Terminal A station is the terminus for the Orange Line and connectsSkylink.[308]
This provides passengers the convenience of disembarking the DART rail, proceeding to security check-in and immediately boardingSkylink to be quickly transported to their desired terminal. The Blue Line has also been extended by 4.5 miles (7.2 km) to serveRowlett at theRowlett Park & Ride facility.[309]
In August 2009, the Regional Transportation Council agreed to seek $96 million in federal stimulus dollars for a trolley project in Dallas and Fort Worth. The Oak Cliff Transit Authority took the lead with leaders envisioning a streetcar line that would linkUnion Station and theDallas Convention Center in Downtown to Oak Cliff, Methodist Medical Center, and theBishop Arts District via the Houston Street Viaduct.[310]
Dallas was awarded a $23 million TIGER grant towards the $58 million Dallas Streetcar Project in February 2010.[311]
In addition to light rail,Amtrak'sTexas Eagle also serves Union Station, providing daily service east toChicago and west toSan Antonio, and thrice-weekly service west toLos Angeles. The Trinity Rail Express terminates at Union Station andT&P Station.
The city of Dallas has worked to build Sister & Friendship City relationships around the globe. These relationships help create and strengthen partnerships between Dallas and theinternational community. The program aims to build global cooperation at the municipal level by promoting cultural understanding and stimulatingeconomic development between Dallas and its foreign counterparts.[312]
^If this theory is correct, the name is derived fromScottish GaelicDalais, the etymology of which is in turn uncertain but may be from aPictish term that roughly translates to "meadow abode".
^Mean monthly maxima and minima calculated based on data at said location from 1991 to 2020.
^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.[76]
^Sunshine normals are based on only 24 years of data.
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