Fort Worth Texas Facts

Are you Interested in learning more about Fort Worth, before you decide to store your belongings here? Here are some facts about this great town that may interest you!

Rankings -

• Number one tourist destination in Texas.
• Named as the #4 value-friendly destination in the United States by Hotwire.com.
• Ranked as the 17th largest city in the United States.
• The Dallas-Fort Worth area has more residents - 6,145,037 - than 31 U.S. states.

For example, Colorado has about 4.9 million residents.

• Ranked as the 10th fastest growing city in America in 2008.
• In the United States,it is 5th fastest growing city in United States (cites with a population of 100,000 or more)
• 9th safest city in the United States.
• Named one of America's Most Livable Communities by Partners for Livable Communities
• Named one of America's Dozen Distinctive Destinations for 2009 by The National Trust for Historic Preservation

Demographics -

• Elevation: 600 ft above sea level
• Geographical Area in square miles: 300

Weather -

• Coldest month: January - Avg. High 54 / Avg. Low 34
• Hottest month: July - Avg. High 95 / Avg. Low 75

Fort Worth Fun Facts -

• The place where 60 percent of US paper currency is printed at the U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing Western Currency Facility.
• The Texas Civil War Museum houses the largest private Civil War collection west of the Mississippi River.
• The Modern Art Museum in Fort Worth is the oldest museum in Texas and is the 2nd largest museum gallery for modern art in America, next to MoMA New York.
• Southwestern Exposition and Livestock Showheld here is the oldest stock show and rodeo in the country.
• In the Stockyards National Historic District, the world's only twice-daily cattle drive.
• The Fort Worth Zoo opened as the first zoo in Texas in 1909.
• In 1963, here was the place of President John F. Kennedy's last public speech before leaving for Dallas on that fateful day.
• Fort Worth's Texas Motor Speedway seats more than 153,000 spectators and is bigger than eight Texas Stadiums.
• 5 million: The number of animals annually traded during the height of the Fort Worth Stockyards.

(source: Fort Worth Official Website)

In case you are moving here, we hope that this distance chart from other places in the United States will be of some use:

• Anchorage, AK - 3977 miles
• Amarillo, TX - 341 miles
• Atlanta, GA - 782 miles
• Austin, TX - 196 miles
• Charleston, SC - 1103 miles
• Columbus, OH - 1073 miles
• Chicago, IL -  968 miles
• Kennebunkport, ME -  1880 miles
• Grand Canyon, AR -  873 miles
• Grand Rapids, MI -  1147 miles
• Great Falls, MT -  1540 miles
• Houston, TX -  264 miles
• Little Rock, AR -  320 miles
• Los Angeles, CA -  1409 miles
• Las Vegas, NV -  1194 miles
• Memphis, TN -  453 miles
• Miami, FL- 1316 miles
• New Orleans, LA — 521 miles
• Niagara Falls, NY — 1423 miles
• Oklahoma City, OK — 201 miles
• Seattle, WA — 2138 miles
• San Antonio, TX — 265 miles
• Salt lake City, UT — 1219 miles
• Washington, DC — 1330 miles
• Wall, SD — 1015 miles

Quick Facts:

Time Zone: Central Standard Time ( CST ) GMT -6 ( GMT -5 daylight saving time ); Area Codes: 817 & 682

While some other local economies throughout the US have suffered declines recently, Dallas experienced the largest population growth of any US city, as reported in the U.S. Census (March 2008).

Did You Know?

The city where the classic Science Fiction movie Logan's Run was filmed and that Bonnie and Clyde used the Stockyards Hotel as a hide out from the law.

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Nearby Attractions:

• Dallas Arboretum
• Dallas Arts District
• Fort Worth Stockyards
• Texas School Book Depository
• Six Flags Over Texas
• Texas State Fair : Home of Big Tex
• Dallas Zoo/Ft. Worth Zoo
• Dallas Farmer’s Market
• Lone Star Park at Grand Prairie
• South Fork Ranch
• Dallas World Aquarium
• Cultural District

Local Corporations

• ACME Brick Company
• Alcon Laboratories
• American Airlines
• AmeriCredit Corp.
• Bell Helicopter/Textron
• The Bombay Co.
• Burlington Northern Santa Fe
• Carter & Burgess, Inc.
• Cash America International
• D.R. Horton
• Justin Brands
• Lockheed Martin Tactical Aircraft Systems
• Pier 1 Imports
• RadioShack Corporation
• Williamson-Dickie Manufacturing; XTO Energy Inc.

Entertainment Districts

All within 3 miles of each other, Fort Worth is home to three main entertainment districts :

The Sundance Square is considered by many as one of the top downtown settings in the US. This business/entertainment district boasts over 30 square blocks of shopping, more than a dozen restaurants, live theater, 20 movie screens, art galleries and a whole lot more.

Another interesting place to visit is the Stockyards National Historic District. This area is filled with sites from the Old West, great Texas-themed shopping and cuisine, Western saloons, rodeos, the Texas Cowboy Hall of Fame, and the Fort Worth Herd daily cattle drive. The Livestock Exchange Building and the Stockyards Station shops and restaurants in the old sheep and hog barns are some of the legendary structures that can be seen.   Some of the Western shops that can be visited located along historic Exchange Avenue are: Maverick, Fincher's and Leddy's.

The Cultural District, an area that is sure to interest people new to the area, is a park-like setting that it is a home to several fantastic museums. You will find numerous find museums that are devoted to Western heritage and this citiy’s colorful past, making Fort Worth "the museum capital of the Southwest."

(Source: coe.org)

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