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Garland, Texas. / 32.90722°N 96.63528°W / 32.90722; -96.63528. Garland is a city in the U.S. state of Texas, located within Dallas County with portions extending into Collin and Rockwall counties. It is located northeast of Dallas and is a part of the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex.
Lake Highlands touches Richardson on the north, Garland on the east, White Rock Lake and East Dallas on the south, and Lakewood and North Dallas on the west. The neighborhood is bisected from southeast to northwest by I-635 and from southwest to northeast by DART Blue Line.
Area codes 214, 469, 972, and 945 are telephone area codes in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for Dallas, Texas and most of the eastern portion of the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex. The area codes are assigned in an overlay complex to a single numbering plan area that was the core of one of the original area codes of 1947, area code 214.
Numbering plan areas and area codes of Texas (tan). This is a list of area codes in the U.S. state of Texas. The date of establishment of each area code is indicated in parentheses: [1] 210: San Antonio area; overlays with 726 (November 1, 1992) 214: Dallas area, overlays with 469, 972, and 945 (October 1947) 254: Waco, Killeen, Temple, Belton ...
Duck Creek is an area in Garland, Texas, United States that once consisted of two distinct unincorporated communities (sometimes referred to as Old Duck Creek and New Duck Creek) in northeastern Dallas County . The community began using one, then later two-room log cabins as schools in 1852, with the first multi-grade school, Duck Creek Academy ...
In 1978, Bobby C. Scott, a self-taught botanist, recognized some plants in a section of woods in Garland, Texas as indicators of virgin forest.The existence of virgin forest within city limits is highly unusual, as the 19th Century settlers in the area typically cut down the forests for use in construction or to clear land for farming.
1911 - Garland Independent School District established. [7]1913 - Travis College Hill area platted. [8]1920 - Population: 1,421. 1927 - May 9: Tornado. 1933 - Nicholson public library opens.
It was the deadliest tornado in Texas since Dec. 26, 2015, when 10 people died after an EF4 twister hit the Garland and Rowlett area in east Dallas County.