Arlington, Texas
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| Basic data | |
| Foundation : | 1876 |
| State : | United States |
| State : | Texas |
| County : | Tarrant County |
| Coordinates : | 32 ° 42 ′ N , 97 ° 7 ′ W |
| Time zone : | Central ( UTC − 6 / −5 ) |
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Inhabitants : - Metropolitan Area : |
392,772 (as of 2016) 7,233,323 (as of 2016) |
| Population density : | 1,582.5 inhabitants per km 2 |
| Area : | 256.5 km 2 (approx. 99 mi 2 ) of which 248.2 km 2 (approx. 96 mi 2 ) are land |
| Height : | 184 m |
| Postcodes : | 76000-76099 |
| Area code : | +1 817, 682 |
| FIPS : | 48-04000 |
| GNIS ID : | 1372320 |
| Website : | www.arlingtontx.gov |
| Mayor : | Jeff Williams (since 2015) |
Arlington is a city in Tarrant County , Texas . Arlington is part of the Dallas - Fort-Worth- Arlington metropolitan area and is home to the Texas Rangers baseball team and stadium, Rangers Ballpark in Arlington , two amusement parks ( Six Flags Over Texas and Hurricane Harbor ) and the new stadium for the Dallas Cowboys football team . The city is about 20 km east of Fort Worth and about 32 km west of Dallas. It shares a common parish boundary with Kennedale , Grand Prairie , Mansfield and Fort Worth and surrounds the two independent enclave parishes Dalworthington Gardens and Pantego .
geography
According to the United States Census Bureau , the city has a total area of 256.5 km 2 (99.0 mi 2 ). The Mark Holtz Lake was created artificially.
history
The city was founded in 1875 and named after Arlington , Virginia . After the arrival of the railroad in 1876, it grew as a center of cotton processing and agriculture. Arlington received city rights in 1884. Major industrialization did not begin until 1954 when a General Motors plant was built. The automotive and aerospace industries contributed to one of the highest rates of population growth in the United States between 1950 and 1990.
Arlington has been twinned with Bad Königshofen in Lower Franconia since 1952 .
| growth of population | |||
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| Census | Residents | ± in% | |
| 1890 | 664 | - | |
| 1900 | 1079 | 62.5% | |
| 1910 | 1794 | 66.3% | |
| 1920 | 3031 | 69% | |
| 1930 | 3661 | 20.8% | |
| 1940 | 4240 | 15.8% | |
| 1950 | 7692 | 81.4% | |
| 1960 | 44,775 | 482.1% | |
| 1970 | 89,723 | 100.4% | |
| 1980 | 160.123 | 78.5% | |
| 1990 | 261,717 | 63.4% | |
| 2000 | 332,969 | 27.2% | |
| 2010 | 365.438 | 9.8% | |
| 1890-2000 2010 | |||
Schools and colleges
The Arlington Independent School District (AISD) runs the majority of state schools. The six high schools of the AISD are Arlington , James Bowie , Sam Houston , Mirabeau B. Lamar , James Martin and Juan Seguín . The southern part of Arlington is headed by the Mansfield Independent School District .
Also in Arlington are the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA), the southeastern campus of Tarrant County College, and Arlington Baptist College . The University of Texas at Arlington is the third largest university in Texas, currently 25,297 students are enrolled (as of fall 2004).
Sports
Arlington is home to the Major League - Baseball team the Texas Rangers , the Dallas Renegades from 2020 resurrected football league XFL and since 2009 the seat of the Dallas Cowboys ( American football ). As everywhere in Texas, Friday night high school football has plenty of fans of all ages.
- In 2011, Arlington hosted Super Bowl XLV .
- In 2016, Arlington hosted WWE Wrestlemania .
traffic
Arlington is the largest city in the United States that does not have a traditional public transport system. The citizens had voted against it several times. A bus line was introduced in 2013, but abolished again in 2018. It was replaced by a ride pooling system from Via .
The local Arlington Municipal Airport ( ICAO code : KGKY) has test facilities from Bell Helicopter , among other things .
media
There are several radio stations in the city. So sends u. a. KLTY ("Lite 94 Christian Music") a light Christian music program.
Town twinning
Bad Königshofen has been Arlington's twin town in Bavaria since 1951 .
Personalities
sons and daughters of the town
- David Williams (born 1980), poker player
- Jonathan Murphy (born 1981), actor
- Lacey Sturm (born 1981), singer
- Taylor Cole (* 1984), actress and model
- Rebekah Kennedy (born 1984), actress
- Ben Rappaport (* 1986), actor
- Jon Rheault (born 1986), ice hockey player
- Nathaniel Lammons (born 1993), tennis player
- Jennifer Stone (born 1993), actress
- Hayley Orrantia (born 1994), actress
- Myles Garrett (born 1995), American football player
- Slade Pearce (born 1995), actor
- Madison Pettis (born 1998), actress
Personalities who have worked on site
- Tom Vandergriff (1926-2010), politician and mayor of Arlington for 26 years (1951-1977)
- James Dillion (1929-2010), discus thrower
- Robert Cluck (* 1939), local politician; Mayor of Arlington since 2003
- Keith Ackerman (* 1946), Anglican Bishop of the Episcopal Church of the USA
- Sandra Brown (* 1948), bestselling author
- Kelcy Warren (born 1955), civil engineer, billionaire and lobbyist
- Ralph McPherson (born 1958), basketball player
- David W. Allen (* 1961), cartographer
- Ute Sander , German photo model and actress
- Ronnie Coleman (born 1964), bodybuilder
- Roy Tarpley (1964-2015), basketball player
- Billy Miller (born 1979), actor
- Bethany Joy Lenz (* 1981), actress, singer and songwriter
- Katie Featherston (born 1982), actress
- Tervel Dlagnev (* 1985), American wrestler of Bulgarian origin
- Chris Babb (* 1990), basketball player
- Avery Bradley (born 1990), basketball player
- Kirstin Maldonado (* 1992), singer, songwriter, and member of the a cappella group Pentatonix
- Emmanuel Mudiay (* 1996), Congolese-American basketball player
Pop band
- Pentatonix (founded 2011), a cappella group
See also
literature
- Gayla Weems Shannon: Arlington, TX. In: The Handbook of Texas Online. Texas State Historical Association (TSHA), 1999 ff (English, tshaonline.org ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ site Arlington TX - Mayor Jeff Williams Biography ( English ), accessed on 22 November 2018th
- ↑ Texas Almanac (PDF; 1.2 MB). Retrieved October 4, 2012
- ↑ US Census data for 2010 . Retrieved October 12, 2012.
- ↑ City of Arlington, TX ( December 1, 2005 memento on the Internet Archive )
- ↑ heise.de App instead of public transport: US metropolis abolishes bus route and subsidizes ride sharing March 13, 2018 1:20 p.m.
- ↑ Website Arlington - Bad Königshofen, Arlington's Sister City since 1951 , accessed on November 23, 2018.
