Overview
Mesquite is a suburb of Dallas is the Dallas County and Kaufman County, Texas (USA). From the 2000 census, the city's total population was 124,523th The city is home to the Mesquite Championship Rodeo is the "Rodeo Capital of Texas," the computer and video game manufacturer ID Software, Doom and Quake set up. Mesquite home to the 2001 5A Division I State Champion Mesquite Skeeters high school football team.
City was established in 22nd May 1873 by A.R. Alcott is the Texas and Pacific Railway engineer who purchased land along the Texas and Pacific line outside of Dallas. The railroad, which lasted from Dallas to Shreveport, the stopping distance is the newly created city soon began to grow around the city and the railroad. The city was officially incorporated into the 3rd December 1887.
Mesquite prosperous at the end of the 19th to 20 the beginning of the century, and became more and more farmers, growing cotton, hay, maize and sugar, and using the railroad line ship raw goods. The city remained predominantly agrarian until after World War II, when the flowering of the new suburbs took root in Mesquite sub-plan. The population exploded, growing from 1696 and 1950 census to 27,526 in 1960 and 55,131 in 1970.
In 1958, the Mesquite Championship Rodeo, and was established in 1959, Big Town Mall has been built, the first enclosed shopping mall is the Southwest.
By 1970, LBJ Freeway (I-635) has been built, connecting with their neighbors Mesquite, Garland, Balch Springs to the north and the south. Also in 1970, the City of East Mall was constructed. The associated traffic and shops, the city continues to grow. By the 1990 census, the city had increased by 101,484 people, almost twice the population twenty years earlier.
In 1986, the Mesquite Arena (now named Resistol Arena) opened its doors for the Mesquite Championship Rodeo. By 1998, facility to expand the Convention Center, Exhibition Hall and the Hampton Inn & Suites.
Mesquite Independent School District takes in most of the students Mesquite. Part of Mesquite are served by Dallas Independent School District. The receipt of a small part of Kaufman County Forney Independent School District. The Mesquite ISD delivered part of several high schools in: Mesquite High School, North Mesquite High School, West Mesquite High School, Poteet High School and John Horn High School.
Mesquite airport served by a private, Mesquite Metro Airport. The airport is a strictly non-commercial, private accommodation mostly small propeller planes and jet airplanes. Contains only one major airport runway.