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Lake Dallas, Texas. / 33.12833°N 97.02750°W / 33.12833; -97.02750. Lake Dallas is a city in Denton County, Texas, United States. It is located in North Texas, northwest of the city of Dallas, on the shores of Lewisville Lake. The community's name derives from the original name of the lake. It is also one of the four communities in the ...
Lewisville Lake. / 33.06917°N 96.96444°W / 33.06917; -96.96444. Lewisville Lake, formerly known as Garza-Little Elm Reservoir, is a reservoir in North Texas ( USA) on the Elm Fork of the Trinity River in Denton County near Lewisville. Originally engineered in 1927 as Lake Dallas, the reservoir was expanded in the 1940s and 1950s and ...
The U.S. state of Texas is divided into 254 counties, more than any other U.S. state. [1] While only about 20% of Texas counties are generally located within the Houston—Dallas—San Antonio—Austin areas, they serve a majority of the state's population with approximately 22,000,000 inhabitants.
The Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, officially designated Dallas–Fort Worth–Arlington by the U.S. Office of Management and Budget, [ a] is the most populous metropolitan statistical area in the U.S. state of Texas and the Southern United States, encompassing 11 counties. Its historically dominant core cities are Dallas and Fort Worth. [ 5]
435.5 ft (132.7 m) Lake Ray Hubbard, formerly Eastern Dallas Lake or Forney Lake, is a freshwater impoundment ( reservoir) located in Dallas, Texas in the counties of Dallas, Kaufman, Collin, and Rockwall, just north of the City of Forney. [1] It was created by the construction of the Rockwall-Forney Dam, which impounded the East Fork Trinity ...
Three municipalities have water rights to the lake: Grapevine, Dallas, and the Dallas County Park Cities, which provides water to various communities in Dallas County. Under its September 1953 contract, Grapevine obtained 1,250 acre-feet (1,540,000 m 3 ) of the water in the elevations between 500 and 535 feet (152 and 163 m) above sea level.
Lake Highlands is represented by Councilman Adam McGough on the Dallas City Council. [18] At the State level, Senator Nathan Johnson and Senator Angela Paxton represent the area on the Texas Senate. Representative Ana-Maria Ramos and Representative John Turner serve on the Texas House of Representatives.
214, 469, 945, 972. FIPS code. 48-72530 [3] GNIS feature ID. 2412058 [2] Website. www .thecolonytx .gov. The Colony is a city in Denton County, Texas, United States, and a suburb of Dallas. The population was 44,534 at the 2020 census .