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Lewisville (/ ˈ l uː ɪ s v ɪ l / LOO-iss-vil) is a city in the U.S. state of Texas, located in Denton County with portions extending into Dallas County. As one of the Mid-Cities within the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex , the 2020 census reported a population of 111,822.
Lewisville Lake, formerly known as Garza-Little Elm Reservoir, is a reservoir in North Texas on the Elm Fork of the Trinity River in Denton County near Lewisville. Originally engineered in 1927 as Lake Dallas, the reservoir was expanded in the 1940s and 1950s and renamed Lewisville Lake.
It serves as a major arterial for eastern Flower Mound and Lewisville, where it is known as that city's Main Street. [3] FM 1171 continues through central Lewisville before the designation ends at I-35E; Main Street continues into eastern Lewisville as a four-lane road, which was formerly part of the 1171 designation but was later removed. [1]
Texas' 26th congressional district of the United States House of Representatives includes rural Cooke County to the north and some of Wise County to the West and includes parts of Denton County, including Flower Mound, Lewisville and parts of Corinth, Carrollton, Little Elm and The Colony. [5] The current Representative is Brandon Gill.
On July 21, 2023, the OMB delineated 13 combined statistical areas, 26 metropolitan statistical areas, and 41 micropolitan statistical areas in Texas. [1] As of 2023, the largest of these is the Dallas-Fort Worth, TX-OK CSA , encompassing the area around the twin cities of Dallas and Fort Worth in the northern part of the state.
The Mid-Cities is a suburban region filling the 30-mile (48 km) span between Dallas and Fort Worth.These communities include the cities of Arlington, [1] [2] Bedford, [3] Colleyville, Coppell, Euless, [3] Flower Mound, Grand Prairie, Grapevine, Haltom City, [3] Hurst, [3] Irving, Keller, Lewisville, Mansfield, North Richland Hills, [3] Richland Hills, [3] Southlake, and Watauga.
The park was created in the early 1990s from land bordering the newly created Lewisville Lake when a group of stakeholders including the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, University of North Texas, the City of Lewisville, Lewisville ISD, University of Texas at Arlington, and the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service agreed to conserve the land for research purposes and to serve as an outdoor ...
FM 407 begins in Wise County, at US 81 / US 287 in New Fairview. [2] The route travels east into Denton County and into the city of Justin; FM 407 was the primary access route between the former US 77 and farms that were part of the original Icarian Colony, where the city of Justin now sits. [3]