Denton County is located in the U.S. state of

Texas Texas (, ; Spanish: ''Texas'', ''Tejas'') is a state in the South Central region of the United States. At 268,596 square miles (695,662 km2), and with more than 29.1 million residents in 2020, it is the second-largest U.S. state by ...

. As of the 2020 census, its population was 906,422, making it the 7th-most populous county in Texas. The

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is Denton. The county, which was named for John B. Denton, was established in 1846. Denton County constitutes part of the

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. In 2007, it was one of the fastest-growing counties in the United States.

History

Before the arrival of settlers, various Native American peoples, including the Kichai and the

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, infrequently populated the area. The area was settled by Peters Colony landowners in the early 1840s. Until the

annexation of Texas The Texas annexation was the 1845 annexation of the Republic of Texas into the United States. Texas was admitted to the Union as the 28th state on December 29, 1845. The Republic of Texas declared independence from the Republic of Mexico ...

, the area was considered part of Fannin County. On April 11, 1846, the First Texas Legislature established Denton County. The county was named for John B. Denton, who was killed while raiding a Native American village in Tarrant County in 1841. Originally, the county seat was set at Pickneyville. This was later changed to Alton, where the

Old Alton Bridge Old Alton Bridge, also known as Goatman's Bridge, is a historic iron truss bridge connecting the Texas cities of Denton and Copper Canyon. Built in 1884 by the King Iron Bridge Manufacturing Company, it originally carried horses and later aut ...

currently stands, and then moved finally to Denton. By 1860, the population of the county had increased to 5,031. On March 4, 1861, residents of the county narrowly voted for secession from the Union, with 331 votes cast for and 264 against. The

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reached Lewisville, located in the southern portion of the county, by the early 1880s. The

Denton County Courthouse-on-the-Square The Denton County Courthouse-on-the-Square is the former courthouse of Denton County located in the county seat Denton, Texas. The Denton County Courthouse-on-the-Square was constructed in 1896. In addition to county offices, the "Courthouse-on-th ...

was built in 1896, and currently houses various government offices, as well as a museum.

Geography

According to the

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, the county has a total area of , of which are land and (7.8%) are covered by water. Denton County is located in the northern part of the

, about 35 miles south of the border between

and

Oklahoma Oklahoma (; Choctaw: ; chr, ᎣᎧᎳᎰᎹ, ''Okalahoma'' ) is a state in the South Central region of the United States, bordered by Texas on the south and west, Kansas on the north, Missouri on the northeast, Arkansas on the east, New ...

. It is drained by two forks of the Trinity River. The largest body of water in Denton County is Lewisville Lake, which was formed in 1954 when the Garza–

Little Elm Little Elm is a city in Denton County, Texas, United States, and a part of the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex. It is an extended suburb of Denton; its population was 46,453 as of the 2020 census. In 2000, the census population was at 3,646. By the ...

Reservoir was merged with Lake Dallas. The county is on the western edge of the eastern

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and also encompasses parts of the Grand Prairie portion of the Texas blackland prairies. Portions of Denton County sit atop the Barnett shale, a geological formation believed to contain large quantities of natural shale gas. Between 1995 and 2007, the number of natural gas wells in the county increased from 156 to 1,820, which has led to some controversy over the pollution associated with

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Lakes

* Lewisville Lake *

Lake Ray Roberts Lake Ray Roberts (formally Ray Roberts Lake) is an artificial American reservoir located north of Denton, Texas, between the cities of Pilot Point, Texas and Sanger, Texas. It is filled by a tributary of the Trinity River. It was named after ...

Adjacent counties

* Cooke County (north) * Grayson County (northeast) * Collin County (east) * Dallas County (southeast) * Tarrant County (south) * Wise County (west)

Communities

Cities

Multiple counties

* Carrollton (partly in Dallas County and a small part in Collin County) * Celina (mostly in Collin County) * Coppell (mostly in Dallas County) *

Dallas Dallas () is the third largest city in Texas and the largest city in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, the fourth-largest metropolitan area in the United States at 7.5 million people. It is the largest city in and seat of Dallas County ...

(mostly in Dallas County with small parts in Collin,

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, Rockwall and Denton counties) *

Fort Worth Fort Worth is the fifth-largest city in the U.S. state of Texas and the 13th-largest city in the United States. It is the county seat of Tarrant County, covering nearly into four other counties: Denton, Johnson, Parker, and Wise. Accord ...

(mostly in Tarrant County with small parts in

Johnson Johnson is a surname of Anglo-Norman origin meaning "Son of John". It is the second most common in the United States and 154th most common in the world. As a common family name in Scotland, Johnson is occasionally a variation of ''Johnston'', a ...

, Parker, Wise, and Denton counties) * Frisco (mostly in Collin County) * Grapevine (mostly in Tarrant County and a small part in Dallas County) * Haslet (mostly in Tarrant County) * Lewisville (small part in Dallas County) * Plano (mostly in Collin County) * Southlake (mostly in Tarrant County)

Denton County only

Aubrey Aubrey is traditionally a male English given name. The name is from the French derivation Aubry of the Germanic given name Alberic / Old High German given name Alberich, which consists of the elements ALF "elf" and RIK "king", from Proto-Germa ...

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* Denton (

) * Highland Village * Justin * Krugerville *

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* Lake Dallas * Lakewood Village *

* Oak Point * Pilot Point * Roanoke * Sanger * The Colony

Towns

Multiple counties

Flower Mound Flower Mound is an incorporated town located in Denton and Tarrant counties in the U.S. state of Texas. Located northwest of Dallas and northeast of Fort Worth adjacent to Grapevine Lake, the town derives its name from a prominent mound locate ...

(small part in Tarrant County) *

Hebron Hebron ( ar, الخليل or ; he, חֶבְרוֹן ) is a Palestinian. city in the southern West Bank, south of Jerusalem. Nestled in the Judaean Mountains, it lies above sea level. The second-largest city in the West Bank (after Eas ...

(small part in Collin County) * Prosper (mostly in Collin County) * Trophy Club (small part in Tarrant County) * Westlake (mostly in Tarrant County)

Denton County only

* Argyle * Bartonville * Copper Canyon * Cross Roads * DISH * Double Oak * Draper * Hackberry * Hickory Creek *

Lincoln Park Lincoln Park is a park along Lake Michigan on the North Side of Chicago, Illinois. Named after US President Abraham Lincoln, it is the city's largest public park and stretches for seven miles (11 km) from Grand Avenue (500 N), on the south, ...

* Northlake * Ponder * Providence Village * Shady Shores

Census-designated places

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* Paloma Creek * Paloma Creek South *

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Unincorporated communities

* Alliance (partly in Tarrant County) * Bolivar * Navo

Ghost town

* Elizabethtown

Demographics

''Note: the US Census treats Hispanic/Latino as an ethnic category. This table excludes Latinos from the racial categories and assigns them to a separate category. Hispanics/Latinos can be of any race.'' According to the

2010 United States census The United States census of 2010 was the twenty-third United States national census. National Census Day, the reference day used for the census, was April 1, 2010. The census was taken via mail-in citizen self-reporting, with enumerators serving ...

, there were 662,614 people, 224,840 households and 256,139 housing units in the county. The

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was 754.3 people per square mile. By the 2020 census, its population increased to 906,422, representing continued population growth among suburban communities outside of the principal metropolitan cities of

and

. Denton County ranked 29th on the U.S. Census Bureau's list of fastest-growing counties between 2000 and 2007, with a 41.4% increase in population. In 2010, the racial makeup of the county was 75% White, 8.4% African American, 0.7% Native American, 6.6% Asian, and 3.0% from two or more races. About 18.2% of the population was Hispanic or Latino of any race. The 2020 census determined the racial and ethnic makeup was 53.58% non-Hispanic white, 10.52% Black or African American, 0.40% Native American, 10.23% Asian, 0.07% Pacific Islander, 0.43% some other race, 4.60% multiracial, and 20.16% Hispanic or Latino American of any race, reflecting state and nationwide demographic trends of greater diversification. A

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analysis of 2010 census data found about 5.2 same-sex couples per 1,000 households in the county.

Government and politics

Government

Denton County, like all counties in Texas, is governed by a commissioners court, which consists of the

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(the chairperson of the court), who is elected county-wide, and four commissioners who are elected by the voters in each of four districts. Justices of the peace are county officials with jurisdiction over landlord/tenant issues, small civil claims, certain misdemeanors, and other matters.

County commissioners

County officials

Justices of the peace

Law enforcement

The Denton Sheriff's Office employs more than 600 people, for the Denton County Sheriff's Office, most in the Detention Bureau. The office operates a county jail that houses up to 1,400 prisoners. The office is co-located with the jail at 127 North Woodrow Lane in the county seat of Denton. the current sheriff is Tracy Murphree, who was first elected in 2016. That election was particularly contentious, with previous sheriff William B. Travis dogged by scandal, and new candidate Murphree making headlines for threatening violence against

transgender A transgender (often abbreviated as trans) person is someone whose gender identity or gender expression does not correspond with their sex assigned at birth. Many transgender people experience dysphoria, which they seek to alleviate through ...

people.

Politics

Denton County, like most suburban counties in Texas, is reliably Republican in statewide and national elections, although becoming less so since the 2018 election, when

Beto O'Rourke Robert Francis "Beto" O'Rourke ( , ; ; born September 26, 1972) is an American politician who served as the U.S. representative for from 2013 to 2019. A member of the Democratic Party, O'Rourke was the party's nominee for the U.S. Senat ...

earned 45.52% of the county's votes and two Democrats were elected. The last Democratic presidential candidate to win the county was native Texan Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964, the only time since 1952 that the county has been carried by a Democrat. Denton swung rapidly into the Republican column at the federal level in the 1950s and 1960s as Dallas and Fort Worth's suburbs spilled into the county. In 2018, State Representative

Michelle Beckley Michelle Jane Beckley (born November 28, 1969) is a former Democratic member of the Texas House of Representatives from District 65. She was first elected in November 2018, defeating incumbent Republican Ron Simmons. Texas' 65th district rep ...

became the first Democrat elected to the state legislature from Denton County since 1984. Her district, the 65th, is located entirely within Denton County, and includes significant portions of Carrollton, Highland Village and Lewisville. Also in 2018, Christopher Lopez, elected to justice of the peace, Precinct 6, became the first Democrat elected at the county level since 2004. Despite a Republican advantage, Denton continues to trend leftward, as Joe Biden managed 45.2% (to Donald Trump's 53.3%) in the 2020 presidential election, the best result for a Democrat since 1976. Many other suburban Texas counties, including its immediate neighbors in Collin County and Tarrant County as well as those around

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and

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, showed similar swings since 2016.

State board of education members

Texas State Representatives

Texas state senators

United States representatives

Education

K-12 schools

These school districts lie entirely within Denton County: *

Argyle Independent School District Argyle Independent School District is a public school district based in Argyle, Texas (USA). The district operates one high school, Argyle High School. Attendance area The boundary of the school district includes the majority of Argyle and po ...

* Aubrey Independent School District * Denton Independent School District * Lake Dallas Independent School District *

Lewisville Independent School District Lewisville Independent School District (LISD) is a 127-square mile school district based in Lewisville, Texas ( USA) covering all of Lewisville, The Colony, Highland Village, Copper Canyon, and Double Oak as well as portions of Flower Mound ...

* Little Elm Independent School District *

Ponder Independent School District Ponder Independent School District is a public school district based in Ponder, Texas, United States. In 2009, the school district was rated "academically acceptable" by the Texas Education Agency. It includes Ponder, DISH, and portions o ...

* Sanger Independent School District These school districts lie partly within Denton County: *

Carrollton-Farmers Branch Independent School District Carrollton-Farmers Branch Independent School District (CFBISD) is a school district based in Carrollton, Texas, United States. The district covers most of the cities of Carrollton and Farmers Branch and parts of Addison, Coppell, Dallas, and ...

* Celina Independent School District * Era Independent School District * Frisco Independent School District *

Krum Independent School District Krum Independent School District is a public school district based in Krum, Texas (USA). Located in Krum in Denton County, the district serves approximately 1900 students. The boundary of the school district includes Krum and portions of Dento ...

Northwest Independent School District Northwest Independent School District (Northwest ISD) is a rapidly growing North Texas public school district with its headquarters in the city of Fort Worth, Texas (USA). with a Justin postal address. The school district is named for its locatio ...

Pilot Point Independent School District Pilot Point Independent School District is a public school district based in Pilot Point, Texas ( USA). Located in Denton County, portions of the district extend into Cooke and Grayson counties. In 2009, the school district was rated "acad ...

* Prosper Independent School District * Slidell Independent School District These private educational institutions serve Denton County: * Denton Calvary Academy * Coram Deo Academy * Lakeland Christian Academy * Liberty Christian School * Selwyn College Preparatory School From around 1997 to 2015, the number of non-Hispanic white children in K-12 schools in the county increased by 20,000 as part of a trend of white flight and suburbanization by non-Hispanic white families.

Colleges and universities

According to the Texas Education Code, most of Denton County is assigned to North Central Texas College for

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. However portions within Celina ISD, Proper ISD, and the municipalities of Frisco and The Colony are instead assigned to Collin College (formerly Collin County Community College), and portions zoned to Carrollton-Farmers Branch ISD are assigned to

Dallas College Dallas College is a public community college with seven campuses in Dallas County, Texas. It serves more than 70,000 students annually in degree-granting, continuing education, and adult education programs. Dallas College offers associate degr ...

(formerly Dallas County Community College District). These four year higher-education institutions serve Denton County: *

University of North Texas The University of North Texas (UNT) is a public research university in Denton, Texas. It was founded as a nonsectarian, coeducational, private teachers college in 1890 and was formally adopted by the state 11 years later."Denton Normal School, ...

(UNT) *

Texas Woman's University Texas Woman's University (TWU) is a public coeducational university in Denton, Texas, with two health science center-focused campuses in Dallas and Houston. While TWU has been fully co-educational since 1994, it is the largest state-support ...

Transportation

The Denton County Transportation Authority (DCTA) operates fixed-route bus services, on-demand GoZone service, and ACCESS paratransit service in the county that includes Denton, Lewisville, and Highland Village. SPAN Transit covers areas outside of Denton and Lewisville. DCTA also operates the

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, a

commuter rail Commuter rail, or suburban rail, is a passenger rail transport service that primarily operates within a metropolitan area, connecting commuters to a central city from adjacent suburbs or commuter towns. Generally commuter rail systems are con ...

service that runs from Denton to Carrollton, at which station passengers can switch to the Green Line train owned and operated by

Dallas Area Rapid Transit Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) is a transit agency serving the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex of Texas. It operates buses, light rail, commuter rail, and high-occupancy vehicle lanes in Dallas and twelve of its suburbs. In , the system ha ...

(DART). Passengers can transfer to other DART lines (denominated by different colors) at the downtown Dallas DART station. The county is home to the Denton Municipal Airport and the Northwest Regional Airport in Roanoke.

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is located a few miles south of the county.

Major highways

* * * * * * * * * * * *

Notable people

Dick Armey Richard Keith Armey (; born July 7, 1940) is an American economist and politician. He was a U.S. Representative from Texas's (1985–2003) and House Majority Leader (1995–2003). He was one of the engineers of the "Republican Revolution" of t ...

, former U.S. House Majority Leader and a chief architect of the Contract with America. *

Joan Blondell Joan Blondell (born Rose Joan Bluestein; August 30, 1906 – December 25, 1979) was an American actress who performed in film and television for 50 years. Blondell began her career in vaudeville. After winning a beauty pageant, she embarked on ...

, film and television actress, attended UNT (then North Texas State Teacher's College) in 1926–1927. *

Pat Boone Patrick Charles Eugene Boone (born June 1, 1934) is an American singer and actor. He was a successful pop singer in the United States during the 1950s and early 1960s. He sold more than 45 million records, had 38 Top 40 hits, and appeared in mo ...

, American pop singer, briefly attended UNT. *

Bowling for Soup Bowling for Soup (abbreviated as BFS) is an American rock band formed in Wichita Falls, Texas, in 1994. The band consists of Jaret Reddick (lead vocals, guitar), Chris Burney (guitar, backing vocals), Gary Wiseman (drums, percussion, backing voc ...

, American rock band, based in Denton since 1996 and mentioned the county in their song Ohio (Come Back to Texas) *

Terry Bradshaw Terry Paxton Bradshaw (born September 2, 1948) is an American former professional football player who was a quarterback for the Pittsburgh Steelers in the National Football League (NFL). Since 1994, he has been a television sports analyst an ...

, former Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback *

Mason Cox Mason Cox (born March 14, 1991) is an American-Australian professional Australian rules footballer who plays for the Collingwood Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). Playing as a ruckman and key forward, he first played Austr ...

, professional Australian rules footballer, playing for Collingwood in the

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* Phyllis George, 1971 Miss America, sportscaster and former First Lady of Kentucky *

Joe Greene Charles Edward Greene (born September 24, 1946), better known as "Mean" Joe Greene, is an American former professional football player who was a defensive tackle for the Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League (NFL) from 1969 to 1 ...

, defensive tackle for the

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, 1969–1981; 1969 defensive rookie of the year; 1972 and 1974 defensive player of the year; NFL 1970s all-decade team; Hall of Fame *

Jim Hightower James Allen Hightower (born January 11, 1943) is an American syndicated columnist, progressive political activist, and author. From 1983 to 1991 he served as the elected commissioner of the Texas Department of Agriculture. He publishes a monthly ...

, former Texas Agriculture Commissioner *

Norah Jones Norah Jones (born Geethali Norah Jones Shankar; March 30, 1979) is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. She has won several awards for her music and as of 2012, has sold more than 50 million records worldwide. ''Billboard'' named her the ...

, UNT jazz major *

Henry Lee Lucas Henry Lee Lucas (August 23, 1936 – March 12, 2001) was an American convicted serial killer. Lucas was convicted of murdering his mother in 1960 and two others in 1983. He rose to infamy while incarcerated for these crimes when he falsely c ...

, serial killer, known as the "Confession Killer," committed a 1982 murder in Denton that ultimately led to his arrest * Meat Loaf, American singer and actor, attended UNT *

Gordon McLendon Gordon Barton McLendon (June 8, 1921 – September 14, 1986Texas State Historical AssociationMcClendon, Gordon Barton/ref>) was a radio broadcaster. Nicknamed "the Maverick of Radio", McLendon is widely credited for perfecting, during the 1950s ...

, radio broadcaster and pioneer, B-movie producer, and conservative political financier * Laina Morris - the Overly Attached Girlfriend *

Bill Moyers Bill Moyers (born Billy Don Moyers, June 5, 1934) is an American journalist and political commentator. Under the Johnson administration he served from 1965 to 1967 as the eleventh White House Press Secretary. He was a director of the Counci ...

, White House press secretary in the Johnson Administration (1965–67), attended UNT *

Anne Rice Anne Rice (born Howard Allen Frances O'Brien; October 4, 1941 – December 11, 2021) was an American author of gothic fiction, erotic literature, and Christian literature. She was best known for her series of novels '' The Vampire Chronicles'' ...

, author, attended TWU and UNT, married in Denton *

Sly Stone Sylvester Stewart (born March 15, 1943), better known by his stage name Sly Stone, is an American musician, songwriter, and record producer who is most famous for his role as frontman for Sly and the Family Stone, playing a critical role in the ...

, the musician and frontman of Sly and the Family Stone *

Rex Tillerson Rex Wayne Tillerson (born March 23, 1952) is an American engineer and energy executive who served as the 69th U.S. secretary of state from February 1, 2017, to March 31, 2018, under President Donald Trump. Prior to joining the Trump administ ...

, former CEO of

ExxonMobil ExxonMobil Corporation (commonly shortened to Exxon) is an American multinational oil and gas corporation headquartered in Irving, Texas. It is the largest direct descendant of John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil, and was formed on November 3 ...

and 69th

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, resident of Bartonville * Von Erich family, multigenerational professional wrestling family, known for a series of premature deaths sometimes referred to as the Von Erich curse * Tex Watson, central member of the "Manson family" and leader of the Tate-LaBianca murders in August 1969.

References

External links

Denton County government's website

Headlines about Denton County from ''The Dallas Morning News''

Denton County entry
in the ''

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'' Online at the

University of Texas The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin, UT, or Texas) is a public research university in Austin, Texas. It was founded in 1883 and is the oldest institution in the University of Texas System. With 40,916 undergraduate students, 11,075 ...

Denton County Texas Almanac Page

Historic Denton County materials
hosted by th
Portal to Texas History.

''Captain John B. Denton, preacher, lawyer and soldier. His life and times in Tennessee, Arkansas and Texas by Wm. Allen.''
published 1905, hosted by th
Portal to Texas History
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History

Geography

Lakes

Adjacent counties

Communities

Cities

Multiple counties

Denton County only

Towns

Multiple counties

Denton County only

Census-designated places

Unincorporated communities

Ghost town

Demographics

Government and politics

Government

County commissioners

County officials

Justices of the peace

Law enforcement

Politics

State board of education members

Texas State Representatives

Texas state senators

United States representatives

Education

K-12 schools

Colleges and universities

Transportation

Major highways

Notable people

See also

References

Further reading

External links