Fort Worth, Texas
coonty seat o Tarrant Coonty, Texas, Unitit States / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Fort Worth is the saxteent-lairgest ceety in the Unitit States o Americae an the fift-lairgest ceety athin the state o Texas.[7] Locatit in North Texas an the wastren edge o the American Sooth, the ceety is a cultural gateway intae the American Wast an covers nearly 300 square miles (780 km2) in Tarrant, Parker, Denton, an Wise coonties, servin as the seat for Tarrant Coonty. Accordin tae the 2010 census estimates, Fort Worth haed a population o 727,575.[8][9] It haes been estimatit that bi 2030 it will hae 1,211,665 residents. The ceety is the seicont-lairgest cultural an economic centre o the Dallas–Fort Worth–Arlington region.
Fort Worth, Texas | |
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City of Fort Worth | |
Eik-name(s): Cowtown,[1] | |
Motto(s): "Where the West begins"[1] | |
Location o Fort Worth in Tarrant Coonty, Texas | |
Coordinates: 32°45′26.49″N 97°19′59.45″W | |
Kintra | Unitit States o Americae |
State | Texas |
Counties | Tarrant, Denton, Parker, Wise[2] |
Govrenment | |
• Teep | Council-Manager |
• Bodi | Fort Worth City Council |
• Mayor | Betsy Price |
• Ceety Manager | David Cooke |
• Ceety Cooncil | Leet
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Area | |
• Ceety | 904.4 km2 (349.2 sq mi) |
• Laund | 886.3 km2 (342.2 sq mi) |
• Water | 18.1 km2 (7.0 sq mi) |
Elevation | 216 m (653 ft) |
Population | |
• Ceety | 812,238 (US: 16t) |
• Density | 842.0/km2 (2181.0/sq mi) |
• Metro | 6,954,330 (US: 4t) |
• Demonym | Fort Worthian |
Time zone | UTC-6 (CST) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC-5 (CDT) |
ZIP Codes | 76008, 76028, 76036, 76101-76124, 76126-76127, 76130-76137, 76140, 76147-76148, 76150, 76155, 76161-76164, 76166, 76177, 76179, 76180-76182, 76185, 76191-76193, 76195-76199, 76244, 76247, 76262, 76129 (exclusive to TCU) |
Area code(s) | 214, 972,[4][5] 682, 817 |
FIPS code | 48-27000 |
GNIS featur ID | 1380947[6] |
Website | fortworthtexas.gov |
The ceety wis established in 1849 as an Airmy ootpost on a bluff owerleukin the Trinity River. The day Fort Worth still embraces its Wastren heritage an traditional airchitectur an design.[10]