Overview
City of Arlington is a Tarrant County, Texas (USA) within the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington metropolitan area. From the 2000 U.S. Census, the city population 332,969 (1 July 2004 although the estimate placed the city's population 359,467). Arlington is the seventh-largest city and the country's fifty-first largest city in the United States.
Are located in Arlington Texas Rangers, Arlington Ameriquest field, a theme parks Six Flags Over Texas and Hurricane Harbor, located in the future Dallas Cowboys' new stadium, and it is about 12 miles east of Fort Worth and 20 miles west of Dallas. It is coterminous with Kennedale, Grand Prairie , Mansfield and Fort Worth. The city completely surrounds the smaller communities in Dalworthington Gardens and Pantego.
White settlement in the Arlington area dates back at least to the 1840s. After the 24th May 1841 Battle of the General Edward H. Tarrant (Tarrant County is the name for him) and Native Americans is a Village Creek settlement, a trading post, the Marrow Bone Spring in today's Arlington. The rich soil of the area attracted farmers, and a number of agriculture-related businesses were well established at the end of the nineteenth century.
Town was founded in 1875 and is named after General Robert E. Lee 's Arlington House (today's Arlington County, Virginia). After the arrival of the railroad in 1876, Arlington grew as cotton ginning and farming center, which was reflected in 1884. City could boast of water, electricity, natural gas and telephone services by 1910, with the public school system. In 1925 the population was estimated at 3,031 and it grew over four thousand before World War II.
Large-scale industrialization began in 1954 with the arrival of the General Motors assembly plant. Auto and aerospace development gave the city one of the largest country in population growth between 1950 and 1990. Arlington became one of the "boomburgs," a very fast-growing suburbs that after World War II era. U.S. Census Bureau population figures for the city to tell the story: 7692 (1950), 90229 (1970), 261721 (1990) and 359,467 (2004 estimate). Tom Vandergriff served as mayor of this period of explosive development in 1951-1977. Six Flags Over Texas opened in Arlington in 1961 and 1972 Washington Senators baseball team relocated to Arlington and began play as the Texas Rangers.
February 16, 2006, I-20 Arlington was dedicated as Ronald Reagan Memorial Highway (signs are visible mile markers 447 and 452). Arlington is the largest city in the United States, which is not served by public transport system.
City council and residents have generally opposed the participation of the Dart (Dallas Area Rapid Transit) or T (Fort Worth Transportation Authority), since the tax concerns.