Dallas

Dallas is a big city in the state of Texas. A river called the Trinity flows through it.

Dallas has many tall, shiny buildings made of glass.

Dallas is a city in North Central Texas, on the Trinity River, in the center of Dallas County. Four interstate highways cross it.

The US Census Bureau estimated 1,329,491 people in Dallas on 1 July 2025. In Texas, only Houston and San Antonio had more. Fort Worth had about 1.03 million.

The Census Bureau's Vintage 2025 estimates give Dallas city 1,329,491 people on 1 July 2025, up from an estimates base of 1,304,341 for April 2020, behind Houston (2,397,315) and San Antonio (1,548,422) in Texas and ahead of Fort Worth (1,028,117) and Austin (1,002,632).

The Handbook of Texas (Texas State Historical Association) places Dallas on the Trinity River in the center of Dallas County, crossed by Interstate highways 20, 30, 35 and 45.

Dallas has a big art museum in a part of the city full of art.

In the photo, you can see the art museum's name on its wall.

The Dallas Museum of Art, whose name you can read on the building in the photo, opened its present building in 1984. It was the first new building in the Dallas Arts District, which covers 68 acres at the northeast corner of downtown. The Nasher Sculpture Center, with its collection of modern art and sculpture, joined it in 2003.

Reunion Tower, an observation tower that Wikidata gives as 171 meters tall, opened in 1978 about 1.6 kilometers south-southwest of the museum.

The Handbook of Texas says the Dallas Museum of Art occupies a building designed by Edward Larrabee Barnes that opened in 1984 as the first new facility in the 68-acre Arts District, joined in 2003 by the Nasher Sculpture Center, designed by Renzo Piano for Patsy and Raymond Nasher's collection of modern art and sculpture.

Wikidata dates Reunion Tower, an observation tower, to 15 April 1978 with a height of 171 m. The handbook also notes that Dallas's first steel skyscraper, the 15-story Praetorian Building, went up in 1907.

Long ago, Dallas was a big market for cotton.

Later, many people in Dallas worked in banks and technology companies.

Dallas grew as a market town: cotton was sold on Elm Street, and around 1900 the city was the world's leading inland cotton market, the Handbook of Texas says. Banking and insurance became major businesses, and in 1914 Dallas was chosen for a Federal Reserve Bank.

In the 1950s and 1960s Dallas became a big technology center, with companies such as Texas Instruments. In 1957 a home furnishings mart opened that grew into the Dallas Market Center, a huge wholesale trade complex.

The Handbook of Texas says that by the turn of the 20th century Dallas was the world's leading inland cotton market and led the world in making saddlery and cotton-gin machinery; banking and insurance had grown in the late 19th century, and a Federal Reserve Bank came in 1914. After oil was discovered in East Texas in 1930, Dallas bankers began lending to oil companies, and the city became a center of petroleum financing.

In the 1950s and 1960s, it says, Dallas became the nation's third-largest technology center, with companies such as Ling-Tempco-Vought and Texas Instruments, and the Home Furnishings Mart of 1957 grew into the Dallas Market Center.