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{{Infobox U.S. County
| county = Dallas County
| state = Texas
| flag = Flag of Dallas County, Texas.svg
| founded date = March 30
| founded year = 1846
| seat wl = Dallas
| largest city wl = Dallas
| area_total_sq_mi = 909
| area_land_sq_mi = 873
| area_water_sq_mi = 36
| area percentage = 4.0%
| census yr = 2016
| pop = 2,574,984
| density_sq_mi = 2950
| density_km2 = 1139
| ex image = Dallas - Old Red Museum 01.jpg
| ex image size = 250
| ex image cap = The former Dallas County Courthouse in March 2009
| web = www.dallascounty.org
| named for = [[George M. Dallas]]
| time zone = Central
| district = 5th
| district2 = 24th
| district3 = 30th
| district4 = 32nd
| district5 = 33rd
}}
'''Dallas County''' is a [[County (United States)|county]] in the [[U.S. state]] of [[Texas]]. As of the [[2010 United States Census|2010 census]], the population was 2,368,139.<ref name="QF">{{cite web|title=State & County QuickFacts|url=http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/48/48113.html|publisher=United States Census Bureau|accessdate=December 10, 2013|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/602xFgg3i?url=http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/48/48113.html|archivedate=July 9, 2011|df=}}</ref> It is Texas' second-most populous county and the [[List of the most populous counties in the United States|ninth-most populous]] in the [[United States]]. Its [[county seat]] is [[Dallas]],<ref name="GR6">{{cite web|url=http://www.naco.org/Counties/Pages/FindACounty.aspx |accessdate=2011-06-07 |title=Find a County |publisher=National Association of Counties |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110531210815/http://www.naco.org/Counties/Pages/FindACounty.aspx |archivedate=May 31, 2011 }}</ref> which is also Texas' third-largest city and the [[List of United States cities by population|ninth-largest city]] in the United States. The county was founded in 1846 and was [[History of Dallas, Texas (1839-1855)#Establishment|possibly]] named for [[George Mifflin Dallas]], the 11th [[Vice President of the United States]] under [[U.S. President]] [[James K. Polk]].{{Disputed inline|Purported naming after George Mifflin Dallas|date=June 2017}}
Dallas County is included in the [[Dallas]]–[[Fort Worth, Texas|Fort Worth]]–[[Arlington, Texas|Arlington]], TX [[Dallas–Fort Worth Metroplex|Metropolitan Statistical Area]] (colloquially referred to as the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex).
== Geography ==
According to the [[United States Census Bureau|U.S. Census Bureau]], the county has a total area of {{convert|909|sqmi}}, of which {{convert|873|sqmi}} is land and {{convert|36|sqmi}} (4.0%) is water.<ref name="GR1">{{cite web|url=http://www.census.gov/geo/www/gazetteer/gazette.html|publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]]|accessdate=2011-04-23|date=2011-02-12|title=US Gazetteer files: 2010, 2000, and 1990}}</ref>
=== Adjacent counties ===
* [[Collin County, Texas|Collin County]] (north)
* [[Rockwall County, Texas|Rockwall County]] (East)
* [[Kaufman County, Texas|Kaufman County]] (southeast)
* [[Ellis County, Texas|Ellis County]] (south)
* [[Tarrant County, Texas|Tarrant County]] (west)
* [[Denton County, Texas|Denton County]] (northwest)
== Demographics ==
{{US Census population
|1850= 2743
|1860= 8665
|1870= 13814
|1880= 33488
|1890= 67042
|1900= 82726
|1910= 135748
|1920= 210551
|1930= 325691
|1940= 398564
|1950= 614799
|1960= 951527
|1970= 1327321
|1980= 1556390
|1990= 1852810
|2000= 2218899
|2010= 2368139
|estyear=2016
|estimate=2574984
|estref=<ref name="USCensusEst2016">{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/popest/data/tables.2016.html|title=Population and Housing Unit Estimates|accessdate=June 9, 2017}}</ref>
|align-fn=center
|footnote=U.S. Decennial Census<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.census.gov/prod/www/decennial.html|title=U.S. Decennial Census|publisher=Census.gov|accessdate=December 10, 2013|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/6YSasqtfX?url=http://www.census.gov/prod/www/decennial.html|archivedate=May 12, 2015|df= }}</ref><br />2012 Estimate<ref name="QF" />
}}
===2015 Texas Population Estimate Program===
As of the 2015 Texas Population Estimate Program, the population of the county was 2,541,528, [[non-Hispanic whites]] 713,835 (28.1%). [[Black American]]s 565,020 (22.23%). Other non-Hispanic 197,082 (7.7%). [[Hispanic and Latino Americans|Hispanics and Latinos]] (of any race) 1,065,591 (41.9%).<ref name="Texas Demographic Center">{{citation |title=Estimates of the Population by Age, Sex, and Race/Ethnicity for July 1, 2015 for State of Texas|date=July 15, 2015|accessdate=June 8, 2017|url=http://demographics.texas.gov/Resources/TPEPP/Estimates/2015/2015_ASRE_Estimate_alldata.pdf}}</ref>
As of the [[census]]<ref name="GR8">{{cite web |url=http://factfinder2.census.gov |publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]] |accessdate=2011-05-14 |title=American FactFinder |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130911234518/http://factfinder2.census.gov/ |archivedate=September 11, 2013 |df= }}</ref> of 2010, there were 2,368,139 people, 807,621 households, and 533,837 families residing in the county. The [[population density]] was 2,523 people per square mile (974/km²). There were 854,119 housing units at an average density of 971/sq mi (375/km²). The racial makeup of the county was 53.54 [[White American|White]] (33.12% [[Race (United States Census)|Non-Hispanic White]]), 22.30% [[Race (United States Census)|Black]] or [[Race (United States Census)|African American]], 0.10% [[Race (United States Census)|Native American]], 5.15% [[Race (United States Census)|Asian]], 0.06% [[Race (United States Census)|Pacific Islander]], 14.04% from [[Race (United States Census)|other races]], and 2.70% from two or more races. 38.30% of the population were [[Race (United States Census)|Hispanic]] or [[Race (United States Census)|Latino]] of any race.
There were 807,621 households out of which 35.10% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 46.90% were [[Marriage|married couples]] living together, 14.10% had a female householder with no husband present, and 33.90% were non-families. 27.30% of all households were made up of individuals and 5.90% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.71 and the average family size was 3.34. As of the 2010 census, there were about 8.8 [[Same-sex relationship|same-sex couples]] per 1,000 households in the county.<ref name=newyorktimes>{{citation |title=Where Same-Sex Couples Live|date=June 26, 2015|accessdate=July 6, 2015|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/27/upshot/supreme-court-gay-marriage-ruling-where-same-sex-couples-live.html?_r=0&abt=0002&abg=0}}</ref>
In the wider county, the population was spread out with 27.90% under the age of 18, 10.70% from 18 to 24, 34.40% from 25 to 44, 18.90% from 45 to 64, and 8.10% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 31 years. For every 100 females there were 99.80 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 98.00 males.
The median income for a household in the county was [[United States dollar|US$]]43,324, and the median income for a family was $49,062. Males had a median income of $34,988 versus $29,539 for females. The [[per capita income]] for the county was $22,603. About 10.60% of families and 13.40% of the population were below the [[poverty line]], including 18.00% of those under age 18 and 10.50% of those age 65 or over.
== Government ==
Dallas County, like all counties in Texas, is governed by a [[Commissioners Court]]. This court consists of the [[county judge]] (the chairperson of the Court) who is elected County-wide and four Commissioners who are elected by the voters in each of four districts.
The Commissioners Court is the policy-making body for the County; in addition, the County Judge is the senior executive and administrative position in the County. While the cities in the County handle many tasks in local government, the County holds responsibility for the following:
<blockquote>The Commissioners Court sets the County tax rate, adopts the budget, appoints boards and commissions, approves grants and personnel actions, and oversees the administration of county government. Each commissioner also supervises a Road and Bridge District. The Commissioners Court also approves the budget and sets the tax rate for the hospital district, which is charged with the responsibility for providing acute medical care for citizens who otherwise would not receive adequate medical services.<ref>http://www.dallascounty.org/</ref></blockquote>
The total 2010 fiscal year budget is approximately $871 million USD.<ref>http://www.dallascounty.org/department/budget/documents/FY2010ApprovedBudgetDetail.pdf</ref>
Currently (November 2014), the major elected officials are<ref>[http://www.dallascounty.org/elected_officials.php Elected Officials]</ref>
{| class=wikitable
|-
! colspan=2 align=center valign=bottom | '''Position'''
! align=center valign=bottom | '''Name'''
! align=center valign=bottom | '''Party'''
|-
|bgcolor=#34AAE0|
| County Judge
| Clay Jenkins
| [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]
|-
|bgcolor=#34AAE0|
| Commissioner, Precinct 1
| Theresa Daniel
| [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]
|-
|bgcolor="red"|
| Commissioner, Precinct 2
| Mike Cantrell
| [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]
|-
|bgcolor=#34AAE0|
| Commissioner, Precinct 3
| [[John Wiley Price]]
| [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]
|-
|bgcolor=#34AAE0|
| Commissioner, Precinct 4
| Elba Garcia
| [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]
|-
|bgcolor="red"|
| District Attorney
| Faith Johnson
| [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]
|-
|bgcolor=#34AAE0|
| District Clerk
| Felicia Pitre
| [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]
|-
|bgcolor=#34AAE0|
| County Clerk
| John Warren
| [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]
|-
|bgcolor=#34AAE0|
| Sheriff
| [[Lupe Valdez]]
| [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]
|-
|bgcolor=#34AAE0|
| Tax Assessor-Collector
| John Ames
| [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]
|-
|bgcolor=#34AAE0|
| Treasurer
| Pauline Medrano
| [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]
|-
|}
There are 7 congressional districts either entirely or partly within Dallas County. There are 5 Republicans and 2 Democratic.
{| class=wikitable
! colspan="2" width=200 | Representative
! width=35 | Party
! width=90 | Home Town/City
! width=20 | District
|-
{{party color|Republican Party (United States)}} || [[Sam Johnson]] || R || [[Plano, Texas|Plano]] || 3
|-
{{party color|Republican Party (United States)}} || [[Jeb Hensarling]] || R || [[Dallas]] || 5
|-
{{party color|Republican Party (United States)}} || [[Kenny Marchant]] || R || [[Coppell, Texas|Coppell]] || 24
|-
{{party color|Republican Party (United States)}} || [[Michael C. Burgess]] || R || [[Lewisville, Texas|Lewisville]] || 26
|-
{{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}} || [[Eddie Bernice Johnson]] || D || [[Dallas]] || 30
|-
{{party color|Republican Party (United States)}} || [[Pete Sessions]] || R || [[Dallas]] || 32
|-
{{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}} || [[Marc Veasey]] || D || [[Fort Worth]] || 33
|-
|}
There are 5 Texas Senate districts either entirely or partly within Dallas County. There are 4 Republicans and 1 Democratic.
{| class=wikitable
! colspan="2" width=200 | Senator
! width=35 | Party
! width=90 | Home Town/City
! width=20 | District
|-
{{party color|Republican Party (United States)}} || [[Bob Hall (Texas politician)|Bob Hall]] || R || [[Greenville, Texas|Greenville]] || 2
|-
{{party color|Republican Party (United States)}} || [[Van Taylor]] || R || [[McKinney, Texas|Plano]] || 8
|-
{{party color|Republican Party (United States)}} || [[Kelly Hancock]] || R || [[Fort Worth, Texas|Arlington]] || 9
|-
{{party color|Republican Party (United States)}} || [[Don Huffines]] || R || [[Dallas]] || 16
|-
{{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}} || [[Royce West]] || D || [[Dallas]] || 23
|}
There are 15 members of the [[Texas House of Representatives]] who are based in Dallas County. There are 8 Republicans and 7 Democrats.
{| class=wikitable
! colspan="2" width=200 | Representative
! width=35 | Party
! width=90 | Home Town/City
! width=20 | District ↑
|-
{{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}} || [[Eric Johnson (Texas politician)|Eric Johnson]] || D || [[Dallas]] || 100
|-
{{party color|Republican Party (United States)}} || [[Linda Koop]] || R || [[Dallas]] || 102
|-
{{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}} || [[Rafael Anchia]] || D || [[Dallas]] || 103
|-
{{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}} || [[Roberto R. Alonzo]] || D || [[Dallas]] || 104
|-
{{party color|Republican Party (United States)}} || [[Rodney Anderson (Texas politician)|Rodney Anderson]] || R || [[Grand Prairie, Texas|Grand Prairie]] || 105
|-
{{party color|Republican Party (United States)}} || [[Pat Fallon]] || R || [[Frisco, Texas|Frisco]] || 106
|-
{{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}} || [[Victoria Neave]] || D || [[Dallas]] || 107
|-
{{party color|Republican Party (United States)}} || [[Morgan Meyer]]|| R || [[University Park, Texas|University Park]] || 108
|-
{{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}} || [[Helen Giddings]] || D || [[De Soto, Texas|De Soto]] || 109
|-
{{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}} || Toni Rose || D || [[Dallas]] || 110
|-
{{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}} || [[Yvonne Davis]] || D || [[Dallas]] || 111
|-
{{party color|Republican Party (United States)}} || [[Angie Chen Button]] || R || [[Richardson, Texas|Richardson]] || 112
|-
{{party color|Republican Party (United States)}} || [[Cindy Burkett]] || R || [[Mesquite, Texas|Mesquite]] || 113
|-
{{party color|Republican Party (United States)}} || [[Jason Villalba]] || R || [[Preston Hollow, Dallas|Preston Hollow]] || 114
|-
{{party color|Republican Party (United States)}} || [[Matt Rinaldi]] || R || [[Irving, Texas|Irving]] || 115
|}
There are ten Judges of the [[Justice of the Peace Courts]] in Dallas County, four Republican and six Democrat.
{| class=wikitable
! colspan="2" width=200 | Justice of the Peace
! width=35 | Party
! width=90 | Home Town/City
! width=20 | Precinct ↑
|-
{{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}} || Judge Thomas G. Jones || D || [[Dallas, Texas|Dallas County JP]] || 1-1
|-
{{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}} || Judge Valencia Nash || D || [[Lancaster, Texas|Dallas County JP]] || 1-2
|-
{{party color|Republican Party (United States)}} || Judge Brian Hutcheson || R || [[Garland, Texas|Dallas County JP]] || 2-1
|-
{{party color|Republican Party (United States)}} || Judge Bill Metzger || R || [[Mesquite, Texas|Dallas County JP]] || 2-2
|-
{{party color|Republican Party (United States)}} || Judge Al Cerone || R || [[Dallas, Texas|Dallas County JP]] || 3-1
|-
{{party color|Republican Party (United States)}} || Judge Steve Seider || R || [[Dallas, Texas|Dallas County JP]] || 3-2
|-
{{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}} || Judge Norris “Stretch” Rideaux || D || [[Grand Prairie, Texas|Dallas County JP]] || 4-1
|-
{{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}} || Judge Katy Hubener || D || [[Irving, Texas|Dallas County JP]] || 4-2
|-
{{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}} || Judge Sara Martinez || D || [[Dallas, Texas|Dallas County JP]] || 5-1
|-
{{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}} || Judge Juan Jasso || D || [[Dallas, Texas|Dallas County JP]] || 5-2
|}
There are five constables of Dallas County, two Republicans and three Democrats.
{| class=wikitable
! colspan="2" width=200 | Constable
! width=35 | Party
! width=90 | Home Town/City
! width=20 | Precinct ↑
|-
{{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}} || Constable Tracey Gulley || D || [[Dallas, Texas|Dallas County]] || 1
|-
{{party color|Republican Party (United States)}} || Constable Ray Nichols || R || [[Garland, Texas|Dallas County]] || 2
|-
{{party color|Republican Party (United States)}} || Constable Ben Adamcik || R || [[Dallas, Texas|Dallas County]] || 3
|-
{{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}} || Constable Roy Williams || D || [[Irving, Texas|Dallas County]] || 4
|-
{{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}} || Constable Beth Villarreal || D || [[Dallas, Texas|Dallas County]] || 5
|}
The [[Parkland Health & Hospital System]] (Dallas County Hospital District) operates the [[Parkland Memorial Hospital]] and various health centers.
The Commissioners Court meets the first and third Tuesday at the Commissioners Courtroom located in the Dallas County Administration Building at 411 Elm St., corner of Elm and Houston streets. The building was the headquarters of the [[Texas School Book Depository]] Company until 1970. Assassin [[Lee Harvey Oswald]] shot President [[John F. Kennedy]] from a window located on the sixth floor which today houses the [[Sixth Floor Museum]] dedicated to the late president's memory.
Acts of the commissioners court are known as 'court orders'. These orders include setting county policies and procedures, issuing contracts, authorizing expenditures, and managing county resources and departments. Most importantly, the commissioners court sets the annual tax rate and the budget for Dallas County government and the courts. The commissioners also set the tax rate and budget for the Dallas County Hospital District which operates [[Parkland Hospital]].
The commissioners court has direct control over all county offices and departments not otherwise administered by a county elected official. Those departments include Dallas County Elections, Health and Human Services, Facilities Management, Parks and Open Space Program, I.T. Services, Homeland Security and Emergency Services, among others. Through their budget making powers, the commissioners exercise indirect control over the District Attorney's office, Sheriff, District Clerk, County Clerk and County Treasurer. The commissioners also set the budget for each of the District, County, and Justice courts.
Dallas County employs a commissioners court administrator who is responsible for the day-to-day management of the commissioners court and implementing the Dallas County Master Plan and the directives of the commissioners court. The current commissioners court administrator is Darryl Martin who was hired by the commissioners in 2008.
[[File:Dallas County Jail 111 W Commerce Street.jpg|thumb|Dallas County Jail, 111 West Commerce Street]]
Dallas County operates several jail facilities. They include:<ref>"[http://www.dallassheriffsoffice.com/intro/main/detentions/jail_information.html Jail Information]." ''Dallas County Sheriff's Office''. Accessed September 14, 2008.</ref>
* 111 Riverfront Blvd ([[Dallas, Texas|Dallas]])
** North Tower Jail
** South Tower Jail - also known as the "Suzanne Kays Tower"
** West Tower Jail
* Government Center Jail - 600 Commerce Street (Dallas)
* Decker Detention Center - 899 North [[Stemmons Freeway]] (Dallas)
* (formerly) Suzanne Kays Jail - 521 North Industrial Boulevard (Dallas) - population integrated into the South Tower; demolished to clear way for the [[Trinity River Project]]<ref>Krause, Kevin. [http://crimeblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2009/04/suzanne-kays-jail-to-close-in.html Suzanne Kays jail to close in Dallas this week]." ''[[The Dallas Morning News]]''. April 14, 2009. Retrieved on June 3, 2013.</ref>
[[Texas Department of Criminal Justice]] operates the [[Hutchins State Jail]] for men in an unincorporated area adjacent to [[Hutchins, Texas|Hutchins]].<ref>"[http://www.tdcj.state.tx.us/stat/unitdirectory/hj.htm HUTCHINS (HJ)] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080923221143/http://www.tdcj.state.tx.us/stat/unitdirectory/hj.htm |date=2008-09-23 }}." ''[[Texas Department of Criminal Justice]]''. Accessed September 14, 2008.</ref> [[Corrections Corporation of America]] operates the [[Dawson Unit]], a co-gender state jail in [[Downtown Dallas]], under contract.<ref>"[http://www.tdcj.state.tx.us/unit_directory/jd.html DAWSON (JD)] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130603165803/http://www.tdcj.state.tx.us/unit_directory/jd.html |date=2013-06-03 }}." ''[[Texas Department of Criminal Justice]]''. Retrieved on June 3, 2013.</ref>
[[Federal Correctional Institution, Seagoville]], is located in [[Seagoville, Texas|Seagoville]].
== Politics ==
{| align="center" border="2" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" style="float:right; margin: 1em 1em 1em 0; border: 1px #aaa solid; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 95%;"
|+ '''Presidential Elections Results'''<ref>http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS</ref>
|- bgcolor=lightgrey
! Year
! [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]
! [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]
! [[Third Party (United States)|Third Parties]]
|-
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Democratic}}|'''[[United States presidential election in Texas, 2016|2016]]'''
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Republican}}|34.3% ''262,945''
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Democratic}}|'''60.2%''' ''461,080''
| style="text-align:center; background:honeyDew;"|5.4% ''41,657''
|-
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Democratic}}|'''[[United States presidential election in Texas, 2012|2012]]'''
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Republican}}|41.6% ''295,813''
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Democratic}}|'''57.0%''' ''405,571''
| style="text-align:center; background:honeyDew;"|1.4% ''10,228''
|-
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Democratic}}|'''[[United States presidential election in Texas, 2008|2008]]'''
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Republican}}|41.9% ''310,000''
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Democratic}}|'''57.2%''' ''422,989''
| style="text-align:center; background:honeyDew;"|1.0% ''7,085''
|-
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''[[United States presidential election in Texas, 2004|2004]]'''
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''50.4%''' ''346,246''
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Democratic}}|49.0% ''336,641''
| style="text-align:center; background:honeyDew;"|0.7% ''4,822''
|-
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''[[United States presidential election in Texas, 2000|2000]]'''
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''52.6%''' ''322,345''
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Democratic}}|44.9% ''275,308''
| style="text-align:center; background:honeyDew;"|2.5% ''15,386''
|-
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''[[United States presidential election in Texas, 1996|1996]]'''
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''46.8%''' ''260,058''
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Democratic}}|46.0% ''255,766''
| style="text-align:center; background:honeyDew;"|7.2% ''40,129''
|-
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''[[United States presidential election in Texas, 1992|1992]]'''
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''38.7%''' ''256,007''
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Democratic}}|35.0% ''231,412''
| style="text-align:center; background:honeyDew;"|26.3% ''173,833''
|-
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''[[United States presidential election in Texas, 1988|1988]]'''
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''58.4%''' ''347,094''
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Democratic}}|40.9% ''243,198''
| style="text-align:center; background:honeyDew;"|0.7% ''4,246''
|-
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''[[United States presidential election in Texas, 1984|1984]]'''
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''66.4%''' ''405,444''
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Democratic}}|33.4% ''203,592''
| style="text-align:center; background:honeyDew;"|0.2% ''1,460''
|-
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''[[United States presidential election in Texas, 1980|1980]]'''
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''59.2%''' ''306,682''
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Democratic}}|36.8% ''190,459''
| style="text-align:center; background:honeyDew;"|4.1% ''21,072''
|-
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''[[United States presidential election in Texas, 1976|1976]]'''
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''56.7%''' ''263,081''
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Democratic}}|42.3% ''196,303''
| style="text-align:center; background:honeyDew;"|1.1% ''5,001''
|-
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''[[United States presidential election in Texas, 1972|1972]]'''
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''69.5%''' ''305,112''
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Democratic}}|29.6% ''129,662''
| style="text-align:center; background:honeyDew;"|0.9% ''4,021''
|-
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''[[United States presidential election in Texas, 1968|1968]]'''
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''50.7%''' ''184,193''
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Democratic}}|34.1% ''123,809''
| style="text-align:center; background:honeyDew;"|15.3% ''55,552''
|-
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Democratic}}|'''[[United States presidential election in Texas, 1964|1964]]'''
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Republican}}|45.1% ''137,065''
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Democratic}}|'''54.7%''' ''166,472''
| style="text-align:center; background:honeyDew;"|0.2% ''621''
|-
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''[[United States presidential election in Texas, 1960|1960]]'''
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''62.2%''' ''149,369''
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Democratic}}|37.0% ''88,876''
| style="text-align:center; background:honeyDew;"|0.9% ''2,054''
|-
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''[[United States presidential election in Texas, 1956|1956]]'''
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''65.1%''' ''125,361''
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Democratic}}|34.0% ''65,472''
| style="text-align:center; background:honeyDew;"|1.0% ''1,862''
|-
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''[[United States presidential election in Texas, 1952|1952]]'''
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''62.7%''' ''118,218''
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Democratic}}|36.8% ''69,394''
| style="text-align:center; background:honeyDew;"|0.5% ''850''
|-
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Democratic}}|'''[[United States presidential election in Texas, 1948|1948]]'''
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Republican}}|37.8% ''35,664''
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Democratic}}|'''50.3%''' ''47,464''
| style="text-align:center; background:honeyDew;"|11.9% ''11,216''
|-
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Democratic}}|'''[[United States presidential election, 1944|1944]]'''
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Republican}}|22.4% ''21,099''
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Democratic}}|'''64.8%''' ''60,909''
| style="text-align:center; background:honeyDew;"|12.8% ''12,028''
|-
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Democratic}}|'''[[United States presidential election, 1940|1940]]'''
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Republican}}|25.1% ''16,574''
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Democratic}}|'''74.7%''' ''49,431''
| style="text-align:center; background:honeyDew;"|0.2% ''131''
|-
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Democratic}}|'''[[United States presidential election, 1936|1936]]'''
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Republican}}|14.5% ''7,204''
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Democratic}}|'''84.9%''' ''42,153''
| style="text-align:center; background:honeyDew;"|0.6% ''300''
|-
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Democratic}}|'''[[United States presidential election, 1932|1932]]'''
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Republican}}|19.1% ''8,919''
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Democratic}}|'''80.1%''' ''37,363''
| style="text-align:center; background:honeyDew;"|0.8% ''371''
|-
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''[[United States presidential election, 1928|1928]]'''
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''60.9%''' ''27,272''
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Democratic}}|38.9% ''17,437''
| style="text-align:center; background:honeyDew;"|0.2% ''78''
|-
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Democratic}}|'''[[United States presidential election, 1924|1924]]'''
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Republican}}|21.6% ''8,618''
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Democratic}}|'''75.8%''' ''30,207''
| style="text-align:center; background:honeyDew;"|2.5% ''1,012''
|-
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Democratic}}|'''[[United States presidential election, 1920|1920]]'''
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Republican}}|23.4% ''4,984''
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Democratic}}|'''67.4%''' ''14,390''
| style="text-align:center; background:honeyDew;"|9.2% ''1,973''
|-
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Democratic}}|'''[[United States presidential election, 1916|1916]]'''
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Republican}}|15.7% ''2,554''
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Democratic}}|'''82.5%''' ''13,410''
| style="text-align:center; background:honeyDew;"|1.8% ''289''
|-
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Democratic}}|'''[[United States presidential election, 1912|1912]]'''
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Republican}}|6.1% ''590''
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Democratic}}|'''79.8%''' ''7,725''
| style="text-align:center; background:honeyDew;"|14.1% ''1,367''
|}
Dallas County's post-war growth transformed it into a conservative sunbelt entrepôt<ref>{{cite book|last1=Bridges|first1=Kenneth|title=Twilight of the Texas Democrats: The 1978 Governor's Race|date=2008|publisher=Texas A&M University Press|location=College Station, Texas|isbn=978-1-60344-009-7|page=56}}</ref>{{clarify |date=October 2017 |reason="conservative sunbelt entrepôt" needs defining.}} that voted for the Republican presidential candidate in every election from 1952 to 2004, except when Texas native [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] successfully ran for a full term as President on the Democratic ticket in 1964. In the 2004 election, Democrats won their first countywide administrative office since 1986 by electing [[Lupe Valdez]] to the office of Dallas County Sheriff. The last Democratic countywide administrator was D. Connally elected County Surveyor prior to the office's abolition. Democrats also won three district court benches in 2004. Two years later in 2006, Democrats swept every contested countywide race including County Judge, District Clerk, County Clerk, District Attorney and County Treasurer as well as every contested judicial seat.
Starting in 1992, Dallas County began voting more Democratic than the state of Texas as a whole, with relatively narrow wins from 1992 to 2004 even as the Republican nominee won Texas easily. This trend culminated in 2008 when [[Barack Obama]] won Dallas County with a substantial margin. Obama's coattails allowed Democrats to win the remaining Republican held judicial seats. In 2012, Obama won Dallas County by virtually the same margin as he had done in 2008. in 2016, [[Hillary Clinton]] increased the Democratic margin of victory even further. She became the first Democrat to win 60% of Dallas County since [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] in 1944.
The Democratic gains in the county are primarily due to the exurban migration of disproportionately conservative, Republican-voting residents to the neighboring counties of [[Collin County, Texas|Collin]], [[Denton County, Texas|Denton]] and [[Rockwall County, Texas|Rockwall]]<ref>{{cite news|last=Wallsten|first=Peter|title=Bush Sees 'Fertile Soil' in Exurbia|url=http://articles.latimes.com/2004/jun/28/nation/na-exurban28|accessdate=2012-06-25|newspaper=The Los Angeles Times|date=2004-06-28}}</ref> As a result, those counties have become more solidly Republican. The tremendous growth in these neighboring counties was part of a larger explosion in exurban growth throughout the nation over the last decade which coincided with the [[Great Recession in the United States|real estate bust in 2007]].<ref>{{cite news|last=Tavernise|first=Sabrina|title=Census Data Offers Look at Effects of Recession|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/05/us/census-data-shows-recessions-toll-on-outer-suburbs.html?_r=1|accessdate=2012-06-25|newspaper=The New York Times|date=April 4, 2012}}</ref> In North Texas, exurban growth was accelerated by transportation infrastructure expansion including the extensions of U.S. 75 north and the Dallas North Tollway in the mid 1990s, and the completion of the George Bush Turnpike after 2001. These and other enhancements opened up vast tracts of farmland to new housing developments.<ref>{{cite news|last=Kim|first=Theodore|title=North Texas Growth Sprang from Pro-Growth Policies|url=http://www.dallasnews.com/news/local-news/20120204-north-texas-sprawl-sprang-from-pro-growth-policies.ece?action=reregister|accessdate=2012-06-25|newspaper=Dallas Morning News|date=February 4, 2012}}</ref>
Dallas County has three openly-[[LGBT]] elected county officials. [[Lupe Valdez]] elected Sheriff in 2004 and a candidate for reelection in 2012; Jim Foster, elected county judge in 2006 serving one term then defeated in the Democratic primary in 2010; and Gary Fitzsimmons elected District Clerk in 2006.<ref>{{cite web|last=Cloud|first=John|title=The Lavender Heart of Texas|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1622593,00.html|publisher=Time magazine|accessdate=2012-06-18|authorlink=The Lavender Heart of Texas|date=2007-05-17}}</ref>
Although Dallas County has become much friendlier to Democrats in Presidential and Senate elections since 1992, it remains a mostly Republican county in the U.S. House of Representatives and the Texas Legislature.
This is in large part due to the pattern of using "racial gerrymandering" and more general political gerrymandering by the Republican dominated Texas Legislature to draw congressional and legislative districts.<ref name="Weissert">{{cite news|last1=Weissert|first1=Will|title=Texas accused of purposely excluding minorities in redistricting|url=http://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/state-politics/20140714-feds-texas-lawmakers-drew-electoral-maps-with-intent-to-discriminate.ece|agency=Associated Press|publisher=The Dallas Morning News|date=2014-07-14}}</ref> Critics of Republican redistricting point out that although 90% of the Texas' 4 million new residents in 2010 were Hispanic,<ref name="Weissert"/> and the Anglo share of Texas' population declined from 52 percent to 45 percent, Anglos retain a majority in 70 percent of Texas' Congressional Districts.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Berman|first1=Ari|title=Texas Redistricting Fight Shows Why Voting Rights Act Still Needed|url=https://www.thenation.com/article/texas-redistricting-fight-shows-why-voting-rights-act-still-needed/|publisher=The Nation|date=2013-06-05}}</ref> By "packing" minority Democratic voters into Congressional District 30 and State Senate District 23 in excess of 70% of the total population, it prevents these voters from impacting neighboring districts. Thus Dallas County has only two Democratic congressman, one representing only a small part of the county; and only one State Senator. Although racial gerrymandering affects the composition of legislative House districts, the failure of the local Democratic party organization to recruit and support legislative candidates relative to judicial candidates has been cited for the lack of Democratic representation.
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== Education ==
The following school districts serve Dallas County:
{|
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* [[Carrollton-Farmers Branch Independent School District|Carrollton-Farmers Branch ISD]] (partly in Denton County)
* [[Cedar Hill Independent School District|Cedar Hill ISD]]
* [[Coppell Independent School District|Coppell ISD]]
* [[Dallas Independent School District|Dallas ISD]]
* [[DeSoto Independent School District|DeSoto ISD]]
* [[Duncanville Independent School District|Duncanville ISD]]
* [[Ferris Independent School District|Ferris ISD]] (mostly in Ellis County)
* [[Garland Independent School District|Garland ISD]]
|
* [[Grand Prairie Independent School District|Grand Prairie ISD]]
* [[Grapevine-Colleyville Independent School District|Grapevine-Colleyville ISD]] (mostly in Tarrant County)
* [[Highland Park Independent School District|Highland Park ISD]]
* [[Irving Independent School District|Irving ISD]]
* [[Lancaster Independent School District|Lancaster ISD]]
* [[Mesquite Independent School District|Mesquite ISD]]
* [[Richardson Independent School District|Richardson ISD]]
* [[Sunnyvale Independent School District|Sunnyvale ISD]]
|}
== Transportation ==
[[Dallas Area Rapid Transit]] provides bus and rail service to many cities in Dallas County, with Dallas being the largest.
The [[Trinity Railway Express]] provides commuter rail service to [[Tarrant County, Texas|Tarrant County]], including downtown [[Fort Worth]].
=== Major highways ===
* {{jct|state=TX|I|20}}
* {{jct|state=TX|I|30}}
* {{jct|state=TX|I|35E}}
* {{jct|state=TX|I|45}}
* {{jct|state=TX|I|345}}
* {{jct|state=TX|I|635}}
* {{jct|state=TX|US|67}}
* {{jct|state=TX|US|75}}
* [[Image:US 77.svg|20px]] [[U.S. Route 77 (Texas)|U.S. Highway 77]]
* [[Image:US 80.svg|20px]] [[U.S. Route 80 (Texas)|U.S. Highway 80]]
* [[Image:US 175.svg|25px]] [[U.S. Route 175|U.S. Highway 175]]
* {{jct|state=TX|Toll|DNT}}
* {{jct|state=TX|Toll|PGBT}}
* {{jct|state=TX|Loop|12}}
* {{jct|state=TX|TX|66}}
* [[Image:Texas 78.svg|20px]] [[Texas State Highway 78|State Highway 78]]
* [[Image:Texas 114.svg|20px]] [[Texas State Highway 114|State Highway 114]]
* [[Image:Texas 121.svg|20px]] [[Texas State Highway 121|State Highway 121]]
* [[Image:Texas 161.svg|20px]] [[Texas State Highway 161|State Highway 161]]
* [[Image:Texas 183.svg|20px]] [[Texas State Highway 183|State Highway 183]]
* [[Image:Texas 190.svg|20px]] [[Texas State Highway 190|State Highway 190]]
* [[Image:Texas 289.svg|20px]] [[Texas State Highway 289|State Highway 289]]
* [[Image:Texas 342.svg|20px]] [[Texas State Highway 342|State Highway 342]]
* [[Image:Texas 352.svg|20px]] [[Texas State Highway 352|State Highway 352]]
* [[Image:Texas 356.svg|20px]] [[Texas State Highway 356|State Highway 356]]
* {{jct|state=TX|Spur|408}}
* {{jct|state=TX|FM|1382}}
'''NOTE:''' US 67 and US 77 are not signed fully along their routes in Dallas County.
=== Airports ===
[[Dallas Love Field|Love Field]], located in Dallas and in Dallas County, serves many domestic passengers.
[[Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport]] is partially located in the city of [[Irving, Texas|Irving]] in Dallas County, and [[Grapevine, Texas|Grapevine]] and [[Euless, Texas|Euless]] in [[Tarrant County, Texas|Tarrant County]].
== Communities ==
=== Cities (multiple counties) ===
{{div col}}
* [[Carrollton, Texas|Carrollton]] (partly in [[Denton County, Texas|Denton County]] and a small part in [[Collin County, Texas|Collin County]])
* [[Cedar Hill, Texas|Cedar Hill]] (small part in [[Ellis County, Texas|Ellis County]])
* [[Combine, Texas|Combine]] (partly in [[Kaufman County, Texas|Kaufman County]])
* [[Coppell, Texas|Coppell]] (small part in [[Denton County, Texas|Denton County]])
* [[Dallas]] (county seat) (small parts in [[Collin County, Texas|Collin]], [[Denton County, Texas|Denton]], [[Kaufman County, Texas|Kaufman]] and [[Rockwall County, Texas|Rockwall]] counties)
* [[Ferris, Texas|Ferris]] (mostly in [[Ellis County, Texas|Ellis County]])
* [[Garland, Texas|Garland]] (small parts in [[Collin County, Texas|Collin]] and [[Rockwall County, Texas|Rockwall]] counties)
* [[Glenn Heights, Texas|Glenn Heights]] (partly in [[Ellis County, Texas|Ellis County]])
* [[Grand Prairie, Texas|Grand Prairie]] (partly in [[Tarrant County, Texas|Tarrant County]] and a small part in [[Ellis County, Texas|Ellis County]])
* [[Grapevine, Texas|Grapevine]] (mostly in [[Tarrant County, Texas|Tarrant County]] and a small part in [[Denton County, Texas|Denton County]])
* [[Lewisville, Texas|Lewisville]] (mostly in [[Denton County, Texas|Denton County]])
* [[Mesquite, Texas|Mesquite]] (small part in [[Kaufman County, Texas|Kaufman County]])
* [[Ovilla, Texas|Ovilla]] (mostly in [[Ellis County, Texas|Ellis County]])
* [[Richardson, Texas|Richardson]] (small part in [[Collin County, Texas|Collin County]])
* [[Rowlett, Texas|Rowlett]] (small part in [[Rockwall County, Texas|Rockwall County]])
* [[Sachse, Texas|Sachse]] (small part in [[Collin County, Texas|Collin County]])
* [[Seagoville, Texas|Seagoville]] (small part in [[Kaufman County, Texas|Kaufman County]])
* [[Wylie, Texas|Wylie]] (mostly in [[Collin County, Texas|Collin County]] and a small part in [[Rockwall County, Texas|Rockwall County]])
{{div col end}}
=== Cities ===
{{div col|3}}
* [[Balch Springs, Texas|Balch Springs]]
* [[Cockrell Hill, Texas|Cockrell Hill]]
* [[DeSoto, Texas|DeSoto]]
* [[Duncanville, Texas|Duncanville]]
* [[Farmers Branch, Texas|Farmers Branch]]
* [[Hutchins, Texas|Hutchins]]
* [[Irving, Texas|Irving]]
* [[Lancaster, Texas|Lancaster]]
* [[University Park, Texas|University Park]]
* [[Wilmer, Texas|Wilmer]]
{{div col end}}
=== Towns ===
* [[Addison, Texas|Addison]]
* [[Highland Park, Texas|Highland Park]]
* [[Sunnyvale, Texas|Sunnyvale]]
=== Unincorporated community ===
* [[Sand Branch, Dallas County, Texas|Sand Branch]]
=== Historical communities ===
* [[Alpha, Texas|Alpha]] (not incorporated)
* [[Buckingham, Texas|Buckingham]] (Annexed by [[Richardson, Texas|Richardson]] in 1996)
* [[Cedar Springs, Texas|Cedar Springs]] (Annexed by [[Dallas, Texas|Dallas]] First Settled in February 1841. In 1929 the community was annexed by the city of Dallas. [http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/hvc34])
* [[Duck Creek, Garland, Texas|Duck Creek]] (merged into [[Garland, Texas|Garland]] in 1887)
* East Dallas (annexed by the city of Dallas in 1890 but was once a city of its own)
* Embree (merged into [[Garland, Texas|Garland]] in 1887)
* [[Fruitdale, Dallas, Texas|Fruitdale]] (annexed by Dallas in 1964)
* [[Hatterville, Texas|Hatterville]] (Merged into [[Sunnyvale, Texas|Sunnyvale]] in 1953)
* [[Hord's Ridge, Texas|Hord's Ridge]] (Merged by [[Oak Cliff, Texas|Oak Cliff]] in 1887 per The Handbook of Texas [http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/hrhnp])
* [[Kleberg, Dallas|Kleberg]] (Absorbed by City of Dallas in 1978)
* [[La Reunion (Dallas)|La Reunion]] (Absorbed by City of Dallas in 1860)
* Letot (Northwest Dallas County, annexed by [[Dallas, Texas|Dallas]])<ref>Rose-Mary Rumbley, "LETOT, CLEMENT" [http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fle81 ''Handbook of Texas'' Online], accessed December 26, 2010.</ref>
* [[Liberty Grove, Dallas County, Texas|Liberty Grove]]
* [[Little Egypt, Texas|Little Egypt]]<ref>[https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/hrlsk "Little Egypt,TX"] in the ''[[Handbook of Texas]] Online'', by Lisa C. Maxwell; accessed 05 December 2015.</ref>
* [[Long Creek, Texas|Long Creek]] (Merged into [[Sunnyvale, Texas|Sunnyvale]] in 1953)
* [[Meaders, Texas|Meaders]]
* [[New Hope, Texas (Sunnyvale)|New Hope]] (Merged into [[Sunnyvale, Texas|Sunnyvale]] in 1953 - not to be confused with the [[Collin County, Texas|Collin County]] [[New Hope, Texas|town of the same name]])
* [[Noel Junction, Texas|Noel Junction]] not incorporated, Addison/Dallas
* [[Oak Cliff, Texas|Oak Cliff]] (Annexed by [[Dallas, Texas|Dallas]] in 1903)
* Penn Springs (Annexed by [[Duncanville, Texas|Duncanville]] in 1947)
* [[Pleasant Grove, Dallas|Pleasant Grove]] (Annexed by [[Dallas, Texas|Dallas]] by 1962)
* [[Preston Hollow, Texas|Preston Hollow]] (Annexed by Dallas in 1945)
* [[Renner, Texas|Renner]] (annexed by [[Dallas, Texas|Dallas]] in 1977)
* [[Rylie, Dallas|Rylie]] (annexed by [[Dallas, Texas|Dallas]] in 1978)
* [[Scyene, Dallas|Scyene]]
* [[Trinity Mills, Texas|Trinity Mills]] (Annexed by [[Carrollton, Texas|Carrollton]])<ref>{{Handbook of Texas|id=hvt59|name="Trinity Mills, TX"}}. By Matthew Hayes Nall. Retrieved on 31 March 2007.</ref>
* [[Tripp, Texas|Tripp]] (Merged into [[Sunnyvale, Texas|Sunnyvale]] in 1953)
== See also ==
{{Portal|Dallas}}
* [[Dallas County District Attorney]]
* [[List of museums in North Texas]]
* [[National Register of Historic Places listings in Dallas County, Texas]]
== References ==
{{reflist|30em}}
== External links ==
{{Commons category|Dallas County, Texas}}
* [http://www.dallascounty.org/ Dallas County Government official site]
* {{Handbook of Texas|id=hcd02|name=Dallas County}}
* [http://texashistory.unt.edu/permalink/meta-pth-14390 ''History of Dallas County, Texas: from 1837 to 1887''] by [[John Henry Brown]], published 1887, hosted by the [https://web.archive.org/web/20000210020912/http://texashistory.unt.edu/ Portal to Texas History.]
* [http://texashistory.unt.edu/permalink/meta-pth-20932 ''Memorial and biographical history of Dallas County, Texas''] published 1892, hosted by the [https://web.archive.org/web/20000210020912/http://texashistory.unt.edu/ Portal to Texas History.]
* [http://texashistory.unt.edu/permalink/meta-pth-20995 ''Official directory, taxpayers of Dallas County, Texas''] published 1896, hosted by the [https://web.archive.org/web/20000210020912/http://texashistory.unt.edu/ Portal to Texas History.]
* [http://www.municode.com/resources/gateway.asp?pid=13347&sid=43 Dallas County Code] (ordinances / regulations) from [[Municode]]
{{Geographic Location
|Centre = Dallas County
|North = [[Collin County, Texas|Collin County]]
|Northeast = [[Rockwall County, Texas|Rockwall County]]
|East = [[Kaufman County, Texas|Kaufman County]]
|Southeast =
|South = [[Ellis County, Texas|Ellis County]]
|Southwest = [[Johnson County, Texas|Johnson County]]
|West = [[Tarrant County, Texas|Tarrant County]]
|Northwest = [[Denton County, Texas|Denton County]]
}}
{{Populated places in Dallas County, Texas}}
{{Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex}}
{{Texas counties}}
{{Texas}}
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{{Authority control}}
[[Category:Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex counties]]
[[Category:Texas counties]]
[[Category:Dallas County, Texas| ]]
[[Category:1846 establishments in Texas]]
[[Category:Populated places established in 1846]]' |
New page wikitext, after the edit (new_wikitext ) | '{{distinguish|Dallam County, Texas}}
{{Infobox U.S. County
| county = Dallas County
| state = Texas
| flag = Flag of Dallas County, Texas.svg
| founded date = March 30
| founded year = 1846
| seat wl = Dallas
| largest city wl = Dallas
| area_total_sq_mi = 909
| area_land_sq_mi = 873
| area_water_sq_mi = 36
| area percentage = 4.0%
| census yr = 2016
| pop = 2,574,984
| density_sq_mi = 2950
| density_km2 = 1139
| ex image = Dallas - Old Red Museum 01.jpg
| ex image size = 250
| ex image cap = The former Dallas County Courthouse in March 2009
| web = www.dallascounty.org
| named for = [[George M. Dallas]]
| time zone = Central
| district = 5th
| district2 = 24th
| district3 = 30th
| district4 = 32nd
| district5 = 33rd
}}
'''Dallas County''' is a [[County (United States)|county]] in the [[U.S. state]] of [[Texas]]. As of the [[2010 United States Census|2010 census]], the population was 2,368,139.<ref name="QF">{{cite web|title=State & County QuickFacts|url=http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/48/48113.html|publisher=United States Census Bureau|accessdate=December 10, 2013|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/602xFgg3i?url=http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/48/48113.html|archivedate=July 9, 2011|df=}}</ref> It is Texas' second-most populous county and the [[List of the most populous counties in the United States|ninth-most populous]] in the [[United States]]. Its [[county seat]] is [[Dallas]],<ref name="GR6">{{cite web|url=http://www.naco.org/Counties/Pages/FindACounty.aspx |accessdate=2011-06-07 |title=Find a County |publisher=National Association of Counties |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110531210815/http://www.naco.org/Counties/Pages/FindACounty.aspx |archivedate=May 31, 2011 }}</ref> which is also Texas' third-largest city and the [[List of United States cities by population|ninth-largest city]] in the United States. The county was founded in 1846 and was [[History of Dallas, Texas (1839-1855)#Establishment|possibly]] named for [[George Mifflin Dallas]], the 11th [[Vice President of the United States]] under [[U.S. President]] [[James K. Polk]].{{Disputed inline|Purported naming after George Mifflin Dallas|date=June 2017}}
Dallas County is included in the [[Dallas]]–[[Fort Worth, Texas|Fort Worth]]–[[Arlington, Texas|Arlington]], TX [[Dallas–Fort Worth Metroplex|Metropolitan Statistical Area]] (colloquially referred to as the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex).
== Geography ==
According to the [[United States Census Bureau|U.S. Census Bureau]], the county has a total area of {{convert|909|sqmi}}, of which {{convert|873|sqmi}} is land and {{convert|36|sqmi}} (4.0%) is water.<ref name="GR1">{{cite web|url=http://www.census.gov/geo/www/gazetteer/gazette.html|publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]]|accessdate=2011-04-23|date=2011-02-12|title=US Gazetteer files: 2010, 2000, and 1990}}</ref>
=== Adjacent counties ===
* [[Collin County, Texas|Collin County]] (north)
* [[Rockwall County, Texas|Rockwall County]] (East)
* [[Kaufman County, Texas|Kaufman County]] (southeast)
* [[Ellis County, Texas|Ellis County]] (south)
* [[Tarrant County, Texas|Tarrant County]] (west)
* [[Denton County, Texas|Denton County]] (northwest)
== Demographics ==
{{US Census population
|1850= 2743
|1860= 8665
|1870= 13814
|1880= 33488
|1890= 67042
|1900= 82726
|1910= 135748
|1920= 210551
|1930= 325691
|1940= 398564
|1950= 614799
|1960= 951527
|1970= 1327321
|1980= 1556390
|1990= 1852810
|2000= 2218899
|2010= 2368139
|estyear=2016
|estimate=2574984
|estref=<ref name="USCensusEst2016">{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/popest/data/tables.2016.html|title=Population and Housing Unit Estimates|accessdate=June 9, 2017}}</ref>
|align-fn=center
|footnote=U.S. Decennial Census<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.census.gov/prod/www/decennial.html|title=U.S. Decennial Census|publisher=Census.gov|accessdate=December 10, 2013|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/6YSasqtfX?url=http://www.census.gov/prod/www/decennial.html|archivedate=May 12, 2015|df= }}</ref><br />2012 Estimate<ref name="QF" />
}}
===2015 Texas Population Estimate Program===
As of the 2015 Texas Population Estimate Program, the population of the county was 2,541,528, [[non-Hispanic whites]] 713,835 (28.1%). [[Black American]]s 565,020 (22.23%). Other non-Hispanic 197,082 (7.7%). [[Hispanic and Latino Americans|Hispanics and Latinos]] (of any race) 1,065,591 (41.9%).<ref name="Texas Demographic Center">{{citation |title=Estimates of the Population by Age, Sex, and Race/Ethnicity for July 1, 2015 for State of Texas|date=July 15, 2015|accessdate=June 8, 2017|url=http://demographics.texas.gov/Resources/TPEPP/Estimates/2015/2015_ASRE_Estimate_alldata.pdf}}</ref>
As of the [[census]]<ref name="GR8">{{cite web |url=http://factfinder2.census.gov |publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]] |accessdate=2011-05-14 |title=American FactFinder |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130911234518/http://factfinder2.census.gov/ |archivedate=September 11, 2013 |df= }}</ref> of 2010, there were 2,368,139 people, 807,621 households, and 533,837 families residing in the county. The [[population density]] was 2,523 people per square mile (974/km²). There were 854,119 housing units at an average density of 971/sq mi (375/km²). The racial makeup of the county was 53.54 [[White American|White]] (33.12% [[Race (United States Census)|Non-Hispanic White]]), 22.30% [[Race (United States Census)|Black]] or [[Race (United States Census)|African American]], 0.10% [[Race (United States Census)|Native American]], 5.15% [[Race (United States Census)|Asian]], 0.06% [[Race (United States Census)|Pacific Islander]], 14.04% from [[Race (United States Census)|other races]], and 2.70% from two or more races. 38.30% of the population were [[Race (United States Census)|Hispanic]] or [[Race (United States Census)|Latino]] of any race.
There were 807,621 households out of which 35.10% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 46.90% were [[Marriage|married couples]] living together, 14.10% had a female householder with no husband present, and 33.90% were non-families. 27.30% of all households were made up of individuals and 5.90% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.71 and the average family size was 3.34. As of the 2010 census, there were about 8.8 [[Same-sex relationship|same-sex couples]] per 1,000 households in the county.<ref name=newyorktimes>{{citation |title=Where Same-Sex Couples Live|date=June 26, 2015|accessdate=July 6, 2015|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/27/upshot/supreme-court-gay-marriage-ruling-where-same-sex-couples-live.html?_r=0&abt=0002&abg=0}}</ref>
In the wider county, the population was spread out with 27.90% under the age of 18, 10.70% from 18 to 24, 34.40% from 25 to 44, 18.90% from 45 to 64, and 8.10% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 31 years. For every 100 females there were 99.80 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 98.00 males.
The median income for a household in the county was [[United States dollar|US$]]43,324, and the median income for a family was $49,062. Males had a median income of $34,988 versus $29,539 for females. The [[per capita income]] for the county was $22,603. About 10.60% of families and 13.40% of the population were below the [[poverty line]], including 18.00% of those under age 18 and 10.50% of those age 65 or over.
== Government ==
Dallas County, like all counties in Texas, is governed by a [[Commissioners Court]]. This court consists of the [[county judge]] (the chairperson of the Court) who is elected County-wide and four Commissioners who are elected by the voters in each of four districts.
The Commissioners Court is the policy-making body for the County; in addition, the County Judge is the senior executive and administrative position in the County. While the cities in the County handle many tasks in local government, the County holds responsibility for the following:
<blockquote>The Commissioners Court sets the County tax rate, adopts the budget, appoints boards and commissions, approves grants and personnel actions, and oversees the administration of county government. Each commissioner also supervises a Road and Bridge District. The Commissioners Court also approves the budget and sets the tax rate for the hospital district, which is charged with the responsibility for providing acute medical care for citizens who otherwise would not receive adequate medical services.<ref>http://www.dallascounty.org/</ref></blockquote>
The total 2010 fiscal year budget is approximately $871 million USD.<ref>http://www.dallascounty.org/department/budget/documents/FY2010ApprovedBudgetDetail.pdf</ref>
Currently (November 2014), the major elected officials are<ref>[http://www.dallascounty.org/elected_officials.php Elected Officials]</ref>
{| class=wikitable
|-
! colspan=2 align=center valign=bottom | '''Position'''
! align=center valign=bottom | '''Name'''
! align=center valign=bottom | '''Party'''
|-
|bgcolor=#34AAE0|
| County Judge
| Clay Jenkins
| [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]
|-
|bgcolor=#34AAE0|
| Commissioner, Precinct 1
| Theresa Daniel
| [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]
|-
|bgcolor="red"|
| Commissioner, Precinct 2
| Mike Cantrell
| [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]
|-
|bgcolor=#34AAE0|
| Commissioner, Precinct 3
| [[John Wiley Price]]
| [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]
|-
|bgcolor=#34AAE0|
| Commissioner, Precinct 4
| Elba Garcia
| [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]
|-
|bgcolor="red"|
| District Attorney
| Faith Johnson
| [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]
|-
|bgcolor=#34AAE0|
| District Clerk
| Felicia Pitre
| [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]
|-
|bgcolor=#34AAE0|
| County Clerk
| John Warren
| [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]
|-
|bgcolor=#34AAE0|
| Sheriff
| [[Lupe Valdez]]
| [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]
|-
|bgcolor=#34AAE0|
| Tax Assessor-Collector
| John Ames
| [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]
|-
|bgcolor=#34AAE0|
| Treasurer
| Pauline Medrano
| [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]
|-
|}
There are 7 congressional districts either entirely or partly within Dallas County. There are 5 Republicans and 2 Democratic.
{| class=wikitable
! colspan="2" width=200 | Representative
! width=35 | Party
! width=90 | Home Town/City
! width=20 | District
|-
{{party color|Republican Party (United States)}} || [[Sam Johnson]] || R || [[Plano, Texas|Plano]] || 3
|-
{{party color|Republican Party (United States)}} || [[Jeb Hensarling]] || R || [[Dallas]] || 5
|-
{{party color|Republican Party (United States)}} || [[Kenny Marchant]] || R || [[Coppell, Texas|Coppell]] || 24
|-
{{party color|Republican Party (United States)}} || [[Michael C. Burgess]] || R || [[Lewisville, Texas|Lewisville]] || 26
|-
{{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}} || [[Eddie Bernice Johnson]] || D || [[Dallas]] || 30
|-
{{party color|Republican Party (United States)}} || [[Pete Sessions]] || R || [[Dallas]] || 32
|-
{{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}} || [[Marc Veasey]] || D || [[Fort Worth]] || 33
|-
|}
There are 5 Texas Senate districts either entirely or partly within Dallas County. There are 4 Republicans and 1 Democratic.
{| class=wikitable
! colspan="2" width=200 | Senator
! width=35 | Party
! width=90 | Home Town/City
! width=20 | District
|-
{{party color|Republican Party (United States)}} || [[Bob Hall (Texas politician)|Bob Hall]] || R || [[Greenville, Texas|Greenville]] || 2
|-
{{party color|Republican Party (United States)}} || [[Van Taylor]] || R || [[McKinney, Texas|Plano]] || 8
|-
{{party color|Republican Party (United States)}} || [[Kelly Hancock]] || R || [[Fort Worth, Texas|Arlington]] || 9
|-
{{party color|Republican Party (United States)}} || [[Don Huffines]] || R || [[Dallas]] || 16
|-
{{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}} || [[Royce West]] || D || [[Dallas]] || 23
|}
There are 15 members of the [[Texas House of Representatives]] who are based in Dallas County. There are 8 Republicans and 7 Democrats.
{| class=wikitable
! colspan="2" width=200 | Representative
! width=35 | Party
! width=90 | Home Town/City
! width=20 | District ↑
|-
{{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}} || [[Eric Johnson (Texas politician)|Eric Johnson]] || D || [[Dallas]] || 100
|-
{{party color|Republican Party (United States)}} || [[Linda Koop]] || R || [[Dallas]] || 102
|-
{{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}} || [[Rafael Anchia]] || D || [[Dallas]] || 103
|-
{{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}} || [[Roberto R. Alonzo]] || D || [[Dallas]] || 104
|-
{{party color|Republican Party (United States)}} || [[Rodney Anderson (Texas politician)|Rodney Anderson]] || R || [[Grand Prairie, Texas|Grand Prairie]] || 105
|-
{{party color|Republican Party (United States)}} || [[Pat Fallon]] || R || [[Frisco, Texas|Frisco]] || 106
|-
{{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}} || [[Victoria Neave]] || D || [[Dallas]] || 107
|-
{{party color|Republican Party (United States)}} || [[Morgan Meyer]]|| R || [[University Park, Texas|University Park]] || 108
|-
{{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}} || [[Helen Giddings]] || D || [[De Soto, Texas|De Soto]] || 109
|-
{{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}} || Toni Rose || D || [[Dallas]] || 110
|-
{{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}} || [[Yvonne Davis]] || D || [[Dallas]] || 111
|-
{{party color|Republican Party (United States)}} || [[Angie Chen Button]] || R || [[Richardson, Texas|Richardson]] || 112
|-
{{party color|Republican Party (United States)}} || [[Cindy Burkett]] || R || [[Mesquite, Texas|Mesquite]] || 113
|-
{{party color|Republican Party (United States)}} || [[Jason Villalba]] || R || [[Preston Hollow, Dallas|Preston Hollow]] || 114
|-
{{party color|Republican Party (United States)}} || [[Matt Rinaldi]] || R || [[Irving, Texas|Irving]] || 115
|}
There are ten Judges of the [[Justice of the Peace Courts]] in Dallas County, four Republican and six Democrat.
{| class=wikitable
! colspan="2" width=200 | Justice of the Peace
! width=35 | Party
! width=90 | Home Town/City
! width=20 | Precinct ↑
|-
{{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}} || Judge Thomas G. Jones || D || [[Dallas, Texas|Dallas County JP]] || 1-1
|-
{{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}} || Judge Valencia Nash || D || [[Lancaster, Texas|Dallas County JP]] || 1-2
|-
{{party color|Republican Party (United States)}} || Judge Brian Hutcheson || R || [[Garland, Texas|Dallas County JP]] || 2-1
|-
{{party color|Republican Party (United States)}} || Judge Bill Metzger || R || [[Mesquite, Texas|Dallas County JP]] || 2-2
|-
{{party color|Republican Party (United States)}} || Judge Al Cerone || R || [[Dallas, Texas|Dallas County JP]] || 3-1
|-
{{party color|Republican Party (United States)}} || Judge Steve Seider || R || [[Dallas, Texas|Dallas County JP]] || 3-2
|-
{{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}} || Judge Norris “Stretch” Rideaux || D || [[Grand Prairie, Texas|Dallas County JP]] || 4-1
|-
{{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}} || Judge Katy Hubener || D || [[Irving, Texas|Dallas County JP]] || 4-2
|-
{{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}} || Judge Sara Martinez || D || [[Dallas, Texas|Dallas County JP]] || 5-1
|-
{{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}} || Judge Juan Jasso || D || [[Dallas, Texas|Dallas County JP]] || 5-2
|}
There are five constables of Dallas County, two Republicans and three Democrats.
{| class=wikitable
! colspan="2" width=200 | Constable
! width=35 | Party
! width=90 | Home Town/City
! width=20 | Precinct ↑
|-
{{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}} || Constable Tracey Gulley || D || [[Dallas, Texas|Dallas County]] || 1
|-
{{party color|Republican Party (United States)}} || Constable Ray Nichols || R || [[Garland, Texas|Dallas County]] || 2
|-
{{party color|Republican Party (United States)}} || Constable Ben Adamcik || R || [[Dallas, Texas|Dallas County]] || 3
|-
{{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}} || Constable Roy Williams || D || [[Irving, Texas|Dallas County]] || 4
|-
{{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}} || Constable Beth Villarreal || D || [[Dallas, Texas|Dallas County]] || 5
|}
The [[Parkland Health & Hospital System]] (Dallas County Hospital District) operates the [[Parkland Memorial Hospital]] and various health centers.
The Commissioners Court meets the first and third Tuesday at the Commissioners Courtroom located in the Dallas County Administration Building at 411 Elm St., corner of Elm and Houston streets. The building was the headquarters of the [[Texas School Book Depository]] Company until 1970. Assassin [[Lee Harvey Oswald]] shot President [[John F. Kennedy]] from a window located on the sixth floor which today houses the [[Sixth Floor Museum]] dedicated to the late president's memory.
Acts of the commissioners court are known as 'court orders'. These orders include setting county policies and procedures, issuing contracts, authorizing expenditures, and managing county resources and departments. Most importantly, the commissioners court sets the annual tax rate and the budget for Dallas County government and the courts. The commissioners also set the tax rate and budget for the Dallas County Hospital District which operates [[Parkland Hospital]].
The commissioners court has direct control over all county offices and departments not otherwise administered by a county elected official. Those departments include Dallas County Elections, Health and Human Services, Facilities Management, Parks and Open Space Program, I.T. Services, Homeland Security and Emergency Services, among others. Through their budget making powers, the commissioners exercise indirect control over the District Attorney's office, Sheriff, District Clerk, County Clerk and County Treasurer. The commissioners also set the budget for each of the District, County, and Justice courts.
Dallas County employs a commissioners court administrator who is responsible for the day-to-day management of the commissioners court and implementing the Dallas County Master Plan and the directives of the commissioners court. The current commissioners court administrator is Darryl Martin who was hired by the commissioners in 2008.
[[File:Dallas County Jail 111 W Commerce Street.jpg|thumb|Dallas County Jail, 111 West Commerce Street]]
Dallas County operates several jail facilities. They include:<ref>"[http://www.dallassheriffsoffice.com/intro/main/detentions/jail_information.html Jail Information]." ''Dallas County Sheriff's Office''. Accessed September 14, 2008.</ref>
* 111 Riverfront Blvd ([[Dallas, Texas|Dallas]])
** North Tower Jail
** South Tower Jail - also known as the "Suzanne Kays Tower"
** West Tower Jail
* Government Center Jail - 600 Commerce Street (Dallas)
* Decker Detention Center - 899 North [[Stemmons Freeway]] (Dallas)
* (formerly) Suzanne Kays Jail - 521 North Industrial Boulevard (Dallas) - population integrated into the South Tower; demolished to clear way for the [[Trinity River Project]]<ref>Krause, Kevin. [http://crimeblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2009/04/suzanne-kays-jail-to-close-in.html Suzanne Kays jail to close in Dallas this week]." ''[[The Dallas Morning News]]''. April 14, 2009. Retrieved on June 3, 2013.</ref>
[[Texas Department of Criminal Justice]] operates the [[Hutchins State Jail]] for men in an unincorporated area adjacent to [[Hutchins, Texas|Hutchins]].<ref>"[http://www.tdcj.state.tx.us/stat/unitdirectory/hj.htm HUTCHINS (HJ)] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080923221143/http://www.tdcj.state.tx.us/stat/unitdirectory/hj.htm |date=2008-09-23 }}." ''[[Texas Department of Criminal Justice]]''. Accessed September 14, 2008.</ref> [[Corrections Corporation of America]] operates the [[Dawson Unit]], a co-gender state jail in [[Downtown Dallas]], under contract.<ref>"[http://www.tdcj.state.tx.us/unit_directory/jd.html DAWSON (JD)] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130603165803/http://www.tdcj.state.tx.us/unit_directory/jd.html |date=2013-06-03 }}." ''[[Texas Department of Criminal Justice]]''. Retrieved on June 3, 2013.</ref>
[[Federal Correctional Institution, Seagoville]], is located in [[Seagoville, Texas|Seagoville]].
== Politics ==
{| align="center" border="2" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" style="float:right; margin: 1em 1em 1em 0; border: 1px #aaa solid; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 95%;"
|+ '''Presidential Elections Results'''<ref>http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS</ref>
|- bgcolor=lightgrey
! Year
! [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]
! [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]
! [[Third Party (United States)|Third Parties]]
|-
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Democratic}}|'''[[United States presidential election in Texas, 2016|2016]]'''
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Republican}}|34.3% ''262,945''
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Democratic}}|'''60.2%''' ''461,080''
| style="text-align:center; background:honeyDew;"|5.4% ''41,657''
|-
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Democratic}}|'''[[United States presidential election in Texas, 2012|2012]]'''
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Republican}}|41.6% ''295,813''
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Democratic}}|'''57.0%''' ''405,571''
| style="text-align:center; background:honeyDew;"|1.4% ''10,228''
|-
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Democratic}}|'''[[United States presidential election in Texas, 2008|2008]]'''
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Republican}}|41.9% ''310,000''
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Democratic}}|'''57.2%''' ''422,989''
| style="text-align:center; background:honeyDew;"|1.0% ''7,085''
|-
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''[[United States presidential election in Texas, 2004|2004]]'''
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''50.4%''' ''346,246''
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Democratic}}|49.0% ''336,641''
| style="text-align:center; background:honeyDew;"|0.7% ''4,822''
|-
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''[[United States presidential election in Texas, 2000|2000]]'''
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''52.6%''' ''322,345''
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Democratic}}|44.9% ''275,308''
| style="text-align:center; background:honeyDew;"|2.5% ''15,386''
|-
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''[[United States presidential election in Texas, 1996|1996]]'''
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''46.8%''' ''260,058''
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Democratic}}|46.0% ''255,766''
| style="text-align:center; background:honeyDew;"|7.2% ''40,129''
|-
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''[[United States presidential election in Texas, 1992|1992]]'''
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''38.7%''' ''256,007''
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Democratic}}|35.0% ''231,412''
| style="text-align:center; background:honeyDew;"|26.3% ''173,833''
|-
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''[[United States presidential election in Texas, 1988|1988]]'''
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''58.4%''' ''347,094''
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Democratic}}|40.9% ''243,198''
| style="text-align:center; background:honeyDew;"|0.7% ''4,246''
|-
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''[[United States presidential election in Texas, 1984|1984]]'''
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''66.4%''' ''405,444''
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Democratic}}|33.4% ''203,592''
| style="text-align:center; background:honeyDew;"|0.2% ''1,460''
|-
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''[[United States presidential election in Texas, 1980|1980]]'''
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''59.2%''' ''306,682''
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Democratic}}|36.8% ''190,459''
| style="text-align:center; background:honeyDew;"|4.1% ''21,072''
|-
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''[[United States presidential election in Texas, 1976|1976]]'''
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''56.7%''' ''263,081''
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Democratic}}|42.3% ''196,303''
| style="text-align:center; background:honeyDew;"|1.1% ''5,001''
|-
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''[[United States presidential election in Texas, 1972|1972]]'''
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''69.5%''' ''305,112''
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Democratic}}|29.6% ''129,662''
| style="text-align:center; background:honeyDew;"|0.9% ''4,021''
|-
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''[[United States presidential election in Texas, 1968|1968]]'''
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''50.7%''' ''184,193''
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Democratic}}|34.1% ''123,809''
| style="text-align:center; background:honeyDew;"|15.3% ''55,552''
|-
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Democratic}}|'''[[United States presidential election in Texas, 1964|1964]]'''
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Republican}}|45.1% ''137,065''
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Democratic}}|'''54.7%''' ''166,472''
| style="text-align:center; background:honeyDew;"|0.2% ''621''
|-
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''[[United States presidential election in Texas, 1960|1960]]'''
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''62.2%''' ''149,369''
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Democratic}}|37.0% ''88,876''
| style="text-align:center; background:honeyDew;"|0.9% ''2,054''
|-
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''[[United States presidential election in Texas, 1956|1956]]'''
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''65.1%''' ''125,361''
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Democratic}}|34.0% ''65,472''
| style="text-align:center; background:honeyDew;"|1.0% ''1,862''
|-
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''[[United States presidential election in Texas, 1952|1952]]'''
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''62.7%''' ''118,218''
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Democratic}}|36.8% ''69,394''
| style="text-align:center; background:honeyDew;"|0.5% ''850''
|-
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Democratic}}|'''[[United States presidential election in Texas, 1948|1948]]'''
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Republican}}|37.8% ''35,664''
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Democratic}}|'''50.3%''' ''47,464''
| style="text-align:center; background:honeyDew;"|11.9% ''11,216''
|-
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Democratic}}|'''[[United States presidential election, 1944|1944]]'''
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Republican}}|22.4% ''21,099''
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Democratic}}|'''64.8%''' ''60,909''
| style="text-align:center; background:honeyDew;"|12.8% ''12,028''
|-
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Democratic}}|'''[[United States presidential election, 1940|1940]]'''
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Republican}}|25.1% ''16,574''
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Democratic}}|'''74.7%''' ''49,431''
| style="text-align:center; background:honeyDew;"|0.2% ''131''
|-
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Democratic}}|'''[[United States presidential election, 1936|1936]]'''
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Republican}}|14.5% ''7,204''
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Democratic}}|'''84.9%''' ''42,153''
| style="text-align:center; background:honeyDew;"|0.6% ''300''
|-
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Democratic}}|'''[[United States presidential election, 1932|1932]]'''
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Republican}}|19.1% ''8,919''
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Democratic}}|'''80.1%''' ''37,363''
| style="text-align:center; background:honeyDew;"|0.8% ''371''
|-
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''[[United States presidential election, 1928|1928]]'''
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''60.9%''' ''27,272''
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Democratic}}|38.9% ''17,437''
| style="text-align:center; background:honeyDew;"|0.2% ''78''
|-
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Democratic}}|'''[[United States presidential election, 1924|1924]]'''
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Republican}}|21.6% ''8,618''
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Democratic}}|'''75.8%''' ''30,207''
| style="text-align:center; background:honeyDew;"|2.5% ''1,012''
|-
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Democratic}}|'''[[United States presidential election, 1920|1920]]'''
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Republican}}|23.4% ''4,984''
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Democratic}}|'''67.4%''' ''14,390''
| style="text-align:center; background:honeyDew;"|9.2% ''1,973''
|-
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Democratic}}|'''[[United States presidential election, 1916|1916]]'''
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Republican}}|15.7% ''2,554''
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Democratic}}|'''82.5%''' ''13,410''
| style="text-align:center; background:honeyDew;"|1.8% ''289''
|-
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Democratic}}|'''[[United States presidential election, 1912|1912]]'''
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Republican}}|6.1% ''590''
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Democratic}}|'''79.8%''' ''7,725''
| style="text-align:center; background:honeyDew;"|14.1% ''1,367''
|}
Dallas County's post-war growth transformed it into a conservative sunbelt entrepôt<ref>{{cite book|last1=Bridges|first1=Kenneth|title=Twilight of the Texas Democrats: The 1978 Governor's Race|date=2008|publisher=Texas A&M University Press|location=College Station, Texas|isbn=978-1-60344-009-7|page=56}}</ref>{{clarify |date=October 2017 |reason="conservative sunbelt entrepôt" needs defining.}} that voted for the Republican presidential candidate in every election from 1952 to 2004, except when Texas native [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] successfully ran for a full term as President on the Democratic ticket in 1964. In the 2004 election, Democrats won their first countywide administrative office since 1986 by electing [[Lupe Valdez]] to the office of Dallas County Sheriff. The last Democratic countywide administrator was D. Connally elected County Surveyor prior to the office's abolition. Democrats also won three district court benches in 2004. Two years later in 2006, Democrats swept every contested countywide race including County Judge, District Clerk, County Clerk, District Attorney and County Treasurer as well as every contested judicial seat.
Starting in 1992, Dallas County began voting more Democratic than the state of Texas as a whole, with relatively narrow wins from 1992 to 2004 even as the Republican nominee won Texas easily. This trend culminated in 2008 when [[Barack Obama]] won Dallas County with a substantial margin. Obama's coattails allowed Democrats to win the remaining Republican held judicial seats. In 2012, Obama won Dallas County by virtually the same margin as he had done in 2008. in 2016, [[Hillary Clinton]] increased the Democratic margin of victory even further. She became the first Democrat to win 60% of Dallas County since [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] in 1944.
The Democratic gains in the county are primarily due to the exurban migration of disproportionately conservative, Republican-voting residents to the neighboring counties of [[Collin County, Texas|Collin]], [[Denton County, Texas|Denton]] and [[Rockwall County, Texas|Rockwall]]<ref>{{cite news|last=Wallsten|first=Peter|title=Bush Sees 'Fertile Soil' in Exurbia|url=http://articles.latimes.com/2004/jun/28/nation/na-exurban28|accessdate=2012-06-25|newspaper=The Los Angeles Times|date=2004-06-28}}</ref> As a result, those counties have become more solidly Republican. The tremendous growth in these neighboring counties was part of a larger explosion in exurban growth throughout the nation over the last decade which coincided with the [[Great Recession in the United States|real estate bust in 2007]].<ref>{{cite news|last=Tavernise|first=Sabrina|title=Census Data Offers Look at Effects of Recession|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/05/us/census-data-shows-recessions-toll-on-outer-suburbs.html?_r=1|accessdate=2012-06-25|newspaper=The New York Times|date=April 4, 2012}}</ref> In North Texas, exurban growth was accelerated by transportation infrastructure expansion including the extensions of U.S. 75 north and the Dallas North Tollway in the mid 1990s, and the completion of the George Bush Turnpike after 2001. These and other enhancements opened up vast tracts of farmland to new housing developments.<ref>{{cite news|last=Kim|first=Theodore|title=North Texas Growth Sprang from Pro-Growth Policies|url=http://www.dallasnews.com/news/local-news/20120204-north-texas-sprawl-sprang-from-pro-growth-policies.ece?action=reregister|accessdate=2012-06-25|newspaper=Dallas Morning News|date=February 4, 2012}}</ref>
Dallas County has three openly-[[LGBT]] elected county officials. [[Lupe Valdez]] elected Sheriff in 2004 and a candidate for reelection in 2012; Jim Foster, elected county judge in 2006 serving one term then defeated in the Democratic primary in 2010; and Gary Fitzsimmons elected District Clerk in 2006.<ref>{{cite web|last=Cloud|first=John|title=The Lavender Heart of Texas|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1622593,00.html|publisher=Time magazine|accessdate=2012-06-18|authorlink=The Lavender Heart of Texas|date=2007-05-17}}</ref>
Although Dallas County has become much friendlier to Democrats in Presidential and Senate elections since 1992, it remains a mostly Republican county in the U.S. House of Representatives and the Texas Legislature.
This is in large part due to Democrat voters living in urban areas that are overwhelmingly Democrat vs. Republican voters being more spread out and living in districts that are not as Republican as Democrat districts are Democrat. For example, Democrat Eric Johnson won re-election to the Texas House of Representatives in 2014 with 90% of the vote |url=https://ballotpedia.org/Texas_House_of_Representatives_District_100| while at the same time, Republican Linda Koop won re-election with a narrower 65% of the vote |url=https://ballotpedia.org/Texas_House_of_Representatives_District_102|
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== Education ==
The following school districts serve Dallas County:
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* [[Carrollton-Farmers Branch Independent School District|Carrollton-Farmers Branch ISD]] (partly in Denton County)
* [[Cedar Hill Independent School District|Cedar Hill ISD]]
* [[Coppell Independent School District|Coppell ISD]]
* [[Dallas Independent School District|Dallas ISD]]
* [[DeSoto Independent School District|DeSoto ISD]]
* [[Duncanville Independent School District|Duncanville ISD]]
* [[Ferris Independent School District|Ferris ISD]] (mostly in Ellis County)
* [[Garland Independent School District|Garland ISD]]
|
* [[Grand Prairie Independent School District|Grand Prairie ISD]]
* [[Grapevine-Colleyville Independent School District|Grapevine-Colleyville ISD]] (mostly in Tarrant County)
* [[Highland Park Independent School District|Highland Park ISD]]
* [[Irving Independent School District|Irving ISD]]
* [[Lancaster Independent School District|Lancaster ISD]]
* [[Mesquite Independent School District|Mesquite ISD]]
* [[Richardson Independent School District|Richardson ISD]]
* [[Sunnyvale Independent School District|Sunnyvale ISD]]
|}
== Transportation ==
[[Dallas Area Rapid Transit]] provides bus and rail service to many cities in Dallas County, with Dallas being the largest.
The [[Trinity Railway Express]] provides commuter rail service to [[Tarrant County, Texas|Tarrant County]], including downtown [[Fort Worth]].
=== Major highways ===
* {{jct|state=TX|I|20}}
* {{jct|state=TX|I|30}}
* {{jct|state=TX|I|35E}}
* {{jct|state=TX|I|45}}
* {{jct|state=TX|I|345}}
* {{jct|state=TX|I|635}}
* {{jct|state=TX|US|67}}
* {{jct|state=TX|US|75}}
* [[Image:US 77.svg|20px]] [[U.S. Route 77 (Texas)|U.S. Highway 77]]
* [[Image:US 80.svg|20px]] [[U.S. Route 80 (Texas)|U.S. Highway 80]]
* [[Image:US 175.svg|25px]] [[U.S. Route 175|U.S. Highway 175]]
* {{jct|state=TX|Toll|DNT}}
* {{jct|state=TX|Toll|PGBT}}
* {{jct|state=TX|Loop|12}}
* {{jct|state=TX|TX|66}}
* [[Image:Texas 78.svg|20px]] [[Texas State Highway 78|State Highway 78]]
* [[Image:Texas 114.svg|20px]] [[Texas State Highway 114|State Highway 114]]
* [[Image:Texas 121.svg|20px]] [[Texas State Highway 121|State Highway 121]]
* [[Image:Texas 161.svg|20px]] [[Texas State Highway 161|State Highway 161]]
* [[Image:Texas 183.svg|20px]] [[Texas State Highway 183|State Highway 183]]
* [[Image:Texas 190.svg|20px]] [[Texas State Highway 190|State Highway 190]]
* [[Image:Texas 289.svg|20px]] [[Texas State Highway 289|State Highway 289]]
* [[Image:Texas 342.svg|20px]] [[Texas State Highway 342|State Highway 342]]
* [[Image:Texas 352.svg|20px]] [[Texas State Highway 352|State Highway 352]]
* [[Image:Texas 356.svg|20px]] [[Texas State Highway 356|State Highway 356]]
* {{jct|state=TX|Spur|408}}
* {{jct|state=TX|FM|1382}}
'''NOTE:''' US 67 and US 77 are not signed fully along their routes in Dallas County.
=== Airports ===
[[Dallas Love Field|Love Field]], located in Dallas and in Dallas County, serves many domestic passengers.
[[Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport]] is partially located in the city of [[Irving, Texas|Irving]] in Dallas County, and [[Grapevine, Texas|Grapevine]] and [[Euless, Texas|Euless]] in [[Tarrant County, Texas|Tarrant County]].
== Communities ==
=== Cities (multiple counties) ===
{{div col}}
* [[Carrollton, Texas|Carrollton]] (partly in [[Denton County, Texas|Denton County]] and a small part in [[Collin County, Texas|Collin County]])
* [[Cedar Hill, Texas|Cedar Hill]] (small part in [[Ellis County, Texas|Ellis County]])
* [[Combine, Texas|Combine]] (partly in [[Kaufman County, Texas|Kaufman County]])
* [[Coppell, Texas|Coppell]] (small part in [[Denton County, Texas|Denton County]])
* [[Dallas]] (county seat) (small parts in [[Collin County, Texas|Collin]], [[Denton County, Texas|Denton]], [[Kaufman County, Texas|Kaufman]] and [[Rockwall County, Texas|Rockwall]] counties)
* [[Ferris, Texas|Ferris]] (mostly in [[Ellis County, Texas|Ellis County]])
* [[Garland, Texas|Garland]] (small parts in [[Collin County, Texas|Collin]] and [[Rockwall County, Texas|Rockwall]] counties)
* [[Glenn Heights, Texas|Glenn Heights]] (partly in [[Ellis County, Texas|Ellis County]])
* [[Grand Prairie, Texas|Grand Prairie]] (partly in [[Tarrant County, Texas|Tarrant County]] and a small part in [[Ellis County, Texas|Ellis County]])
* [[Grapevine, Texas|Grapevine]] (mostly in [[Tarrant County, Texas|Tarrant County]] and a small part in [[Denton County, Texas|Denton County]])
* [[Lewisville, Texas|Lewisville]] (mostly in [[Denton County, Texas|Denton County]])
* [[Mesquite, Texas|Mesquite]] (small part in [[Kaufman County, Texas|Kaufman County]])
* [[Ovilla, Texas|Ovilla]] (mostly in [[Ellis County, Texas|Ellis County]])
* [[Richardson, Texas|Richardson]] (small part in [[Collin County, Texas|Collin County]])
* [[Rowlett, Texas|Rowlett]] (small part in [[Rockwall County, Texas|Rockwall County]])
* [[Sachse, Texas|Sachse]] (small part in [[Collin County, Texas|Collin County]])
* [[Seagoville, Texas|Seagoville]] (small part in [[Kaufman County, Texas|Kaufman County]])
* [[Wylie, Texas|Wylie]] (mostly in [[Collin County, Texas|Collin County]] and a small part in [[Rockwall County, Texas|Rockwall County]])
{{div col end}}
=== Cities ===
{{div col|3}}
* [[Balch Springs, Texas|Balch Springs]]
* [[Cockrell Hill, Texas|Cockrell Hill]]
* [[DeSoto, Texas|DeSoto]]
* [[Duncanville, Texas|Duncanville]]
* [[Farmers Branch, Texas|Farmers Branch]]
* [[Hutchins, Texas|Hutchins]]
* [[Irving, Texas|Irving]]
* [[Lancaster, Texas|Lancaster]]
* [[University Park, Texas|University Park]]
* [[Wilmer, Texas|Wilmer]]
{{div col end}}
=== Towns ===
* [[Addison, Texas|Addison]]
* [[Highland Park, Texas|Highland Park]]
* [[Sunnyvale, Texas|Sunnyvale]]
=== Unincorporated community ===
* [[Sand Branch, Dallas County, Texas|Sand Branch]]
=== Historical communities ===
* [[Alpha, Texas|Alpha]] (not incorporated)
* [[Buckingham, Texas|Buckingham]] (Annexed by [[Richardson, Texas|Richardson]] in 1996)
* [[Cedar Springs, Texas|Cedar Springs]] (Annexed by [[Dallas, Texas|Dallas]] First Settled in February 1841. In 1929 the community was annexed by the city of Dallas. [http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/hvc34])
* [[Duck Creek, Garland, Texas|Duck Creek]] (merged into [[Garland, Texas|Garland]] in 1887)
* East Dallas (annexed by the city of Dallas in 1890 but was once a city of its own)
* Embree (merged into [[Garland, Texas|Garland]] in 1887)
* [[Fruitdale, Dallas, Texas|Fruitdale]] (annexed by Dallas in 1964)
* [[Hatterville, Texas|Hatterville]] (Merged into [[Sunnyvale, Texas|Sunnyvale]] in 1953)
* [[Hord's Ridge, Texas|Hord's Ridge]] (Merged by [[Oak Cliff, Texas|Oak Cliff]] in 1887 per The Handbook of Texas [http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/hrhnp])
* [[Kleberg, Dallas|Kleberg]] (Absorbed by City of Dallas in 1978)
* [[La Reunion (Dallas)|La Reunion]] (Absorbed by City of Dallas in 1860)
* Letot (Northwest Dallas County, annexed by [[Dallas, Texas|Dallas]])<ref>Rose-Mary Rumbley, "LETOT, CLEMENT" [http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fle81 ''Handbook of Texas'' Online], accessed December 26, 2010.</ref>
* [[Liberty Grove, Dallas County, Texas|Liberty Grove]]
* [[Little Egypt, Texas|Little Egypt]]<ref>[https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/hrlsk "Little Egypt,TX"] in the ''[[Handbook of Texas]] Online'', by Lisa C. Maxwell; accessed 05 December 2015.</ref>
* [[Long Creek, Texas|Long Creek]] (Merged into [[Sunnyvale, Texas|Sunnyvale]] in 1953)
* [[Meaders, Texas|Meaders]]
* [[New Hope, Texas (Sunnyvale)|New Hope]] (Merged into [[Sunnyvale, Texas|Sunnyvale]] in 1953 - not to be confused with the [[Collin County, Texas|Collin County]] [[New Hope, Texas|town of the same name]])
* [[Noel Junction, Texas|Noel Junction]] not incorporated, Addison/Dallas
* [[Oak Cliff, Texas|Oak Cliff]] (Annexed by [[Dallas, Texas|Dallas]] in 1903)
* Penn Springs (Annexed by [[Duncanville, Texas|Duncanville]] in 1947)
* [[Pleasant Grove, Dallas|Pleasant Grove]] (Annexed by [[Dallas, Texas|Dallas]] by 1962)
* [[Preston Hollow, Texas|Preston Hollow]] (Annexed by Dallas in 1945)
* [[Renner, Texas|Renner]] (annexed by [[Dallas, Texas|Dallas]] in 1977)
* [[Rylie, Dallas|Rylie]] (annexed by [[Dallas, Texas|Dallas]] in 1978)
* [[Scyene, Dallas|Scyene]]
* [[Trinity Mills, Texas|Trinity Mills]] (Annexed by [[Carrollton, Texas|Carrollton]])<ref>{{Handbook of Texas|id=hvt59|name="Trinity Mills, TX"}}. By Matthew Hayes Nall. Retrieved on 31 March 2007.</ref>
* [[Tripp, Texas|Tripp]] (Merged into [[Sunnyvale, Texas|Sunnyvale]] in 1953)
== See also ==
{{Portal|Dallas}}
* [[Dallas County District Attorney]]
* [[List of museums in North Texas]]
* [[National Register of Historic Places listings in Dallas County, Texas]]
== References ==
{{reflist|30em}}
== External links ==
{{Commons category|Dallas County, Texas}}
* [http://www.dallascounty.org/ Dallas County Government official site]
* {{Handbook of Texas|id=hcd02|name=Dallas County}}
* [http://texashistory.unt.edu/permalink/meta-pth-14390 ''History of Dallas County, Texas: from 1837 to 1887''] by [[John Henry Brown]], published 1887, hosted by the [https://web.archive.org/web/20000210020912/http://texashistory.unt.edu/ Portal to Texas History.]
* [http://texashistory.unt.edu/permalink/meta-pth-20932 ''Memorial and biographical history of Dallas County, Texas''] published 1892, hosted by the [https://web.archive.org/web/20000210020912/http://texashistory.unt.edu/ Portal to Texas History.]
* [http://texashistory.unt.edu/permalink/meta-pth-20995 ''Official directory, taxpayers of Dallas County, Texas''] published 1896, hosted by the [https://web.archive.org/web/20000210020912/http://texashistory.unt.edu/ Portal to Texas History.]
* [http://www.municode.com/resources/gateway.asp?pid=13347&sid=43 Dallas County Code] (ordinances / regulations) from [[Municode]]
{{Geographic Location
|Centre = Dallas County
|North = [[Collin County, Texas|Collin County]]
|Northeast = [[Rockwall County, Texas|Rockwall County]]
|East = [[Kaufman County, Texas|Kaufman County]]
|Southeast =
|South = [[Ellis County, Texas|Ellis County]]
|Southwest = [[Johnson County, Texas|Johnson County]]
|West = [[Tarrant County, Texas|Tarrant County]]
|Northwest = [[Denton County, Texas|Denton County]]
}}
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