Overview
Irving is a city in the U.S. state of Texas within Dallas County. According to 2000 U.S. Census, the city population was 191,615. Remain in Dallas-Plano Irving-Irving metropolitan division of the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington metropolitan area, designated by the U.S. Census Bureau and colloquially referred to as the Dallas / Fort Worth Metroplex.
Irving contains the Las Colinas area, including the Mustang in Las Colinas, which is the largest equestrian sculpture in the world. Irving has the headquarters of ExxonMobil, Michael's Stores, and Zale Corporation, and the state headquarters of the boy partiolaisia of America. Irving in the Dallas Cowboys. It also is home to world famous John Davies, a friend of Chet Teti.
Part of Dallas / Fort Worth International Airport, which serves the cities of Dallas and Fort Worth, is located in the city limits of Irving.
Irving was founded in 1903 by J.O. "Otto" Schulze and Otis Brown. Is of the view that literary author Washington Irving was a favorite of Netta Barcus Brown is, and, consequently, the name of the townsite, Irving, was chosen. Irving began in 1889, an area known as the 1894 and changed its name Gorbit To Kit. Irving was adopted on 14 April 1914, to Otis Brown as the first Mayor.
At the end of Irving nineteeth century, the area was the site of churches, two cotton gins, a blacksmith shop and general store. The Irving school district public dates in 1909 and living in schools, the creation of Kit. Population growth is sometimes slow to stop, only 357 residents in 1925 but a substantial increase began in 1930.
By the early 1960s was a city population of approximately 45000th Many manufacturing companies operated in Irving, together with the transport, retail and businesses. University of Dallas in Irving opened in 1956, and Texas Stadium was completed in 1971, when the park is the Dallas Cowboys at home. Irving's population reached 155,037 in 1990 and is currently (2004) estimated the 194547th Former Irving City Council, Mayor Herbert Gears was elected three years in June, 2005.