Dallas is one of the ten largest cities in the United States and the heart of the largest metropolitan area in Texas. It is the county seat of Dallas County and small portions of the city also extend into the neighboring counties of Collin County, Denton County, Rockwall County, and Kaufman County.
Dallas is the largest city of the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex, a large metropolitan area in North Texas. As of the U.S. Census 2000, Dallas had a total population of 1,188,580 and the Metroplex had a population of 5,161,544 making it the fifth largest United States metropolitan area and one of the 50 largest metropolitan areas in the world. A more recent U.S. Census estimate puts the Metroplex population at 5,589,670 for 2003.
History
The city of Dallas was founded by John Neely Bryan in 1841 after first surveying the area in 1839. Dallas County was established five years later in 1846 and was named after George Mifflin Dallas, who was the eleventh United States Vice President at the time. However, the origin of the city’s name is debatable. Dallas was so called by its residents at least as early as 1843 and there are four theories as to the origin of the city’s name:
Named after George Mifflin Dallas;
Named after George Dallas’ father Alexander James Dallas, a commodore who was stationed in the Gulf of Mexico and was the United States Secretary of the Treasury around the end of the War of 1812;
Named in a town-naming contest in 1842;
Named after the friend of founder John Neely Bryan’s son, who later stated that his father had said he had named the town “after my friend Dallas” (a person whose identity is not certain).
Dallas was formally incorporated as a town in 1856, and in 1871 became a city.
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Geography
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