North Texas is a term used primarily by residents of the

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to refer to a geographic area of Texas, generally considered to include the area south of

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, east of Abilene, west of

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, and north of Waco. Definitions of the region typically do not include the sparsely populated Panhandle of Texas, which is the northernmost region of Texas bordered by

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to the west and

to the north and east. North Texas is centered upon the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, the largest

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in Texas and the

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. People in the

Dallas Dallas () is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the most populous city in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, the List of Texas metropolitan areas, most populous metropolitan area in Texas and the Metropolitan statistical area, fourth-most ...

and Fort Worth areas sometimes use the terms ''Metroplex'', ''DFW'', and ''North Texas'' interchangeably. However, North Texas refers to a much larger area that includes many northern rural counties along the

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border.

History

Indigenous tribes in North Texas included the

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, Tawakoni, Wichita, Kickapoo, and

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. With European colonization, Mexican independence, and Texan independence and annexation to the United States, many of these tribes experienced demographic decline through relocation, slavery, etc. Since European colonization and the independence movements, the North Texas area was settled and most notably developed the cities of Dallas and Fort Worth.

Climate

The North Texas climate is

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with hot summers. It is also

continental Continental may refer to: Places * Continental, Arizona, a small community in Pima County, Arizona, US * Continental, Ohio, a small town in Putnam County, US Arts and entertainment * ''Continental'' (album), an album by Saint Etienne * Continen ...

, characterized by a wide annual temperature range. Average annual

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also varies considerably, ranging from less than 28 to more than 48 inches (700–1200 mm). Severe

storm A storm is any disturbed state of the natural environment or the atmosphere of an astronomical body. It may be marked by significant disruptions to normal conditions such as strong wind, tornadoes, hail, thunder and lightning (a thunderstor ...

s are frequent in the spring and summer, as the area lies in the southern section of "

tornado alley Tornado Alley, also known as Tornado Valley, is a loosely defined location of the central United States and, in the 21st century, Canada where tornadoes are most frequent. The term was first used in 1952 as the title of a research project to st ...

". South is the prevailing wind direction, and southerly winds are frequently high and persist for several days. Strong northerly winds often occur during the passage of cold fronts. Winters can be mild, but northers occur about three times each month, and often are accompanied by sudden drops in temperature. In Dallas, a record-setting 12.8 inches of snow fell in February 2010. Periods of extreme cold that occasionally occur are short-lived, so that even in January mild weather occurs frequently. The highest temperatures of summer are associated with fair skies, and moderate to high humidities. Characteristically, hot spells in summer are broken into three- to five-day periods by

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activity. There are only a few nights each summer when the low temperature exceeds 80 °F (27 °C). Summer daytime temperatures frequently exceed 100 °F (38 °C). Air conditioners are recommended for maximum comfort indoors and while traveling via automobile. Throughout the year, rainfall occurs more frequently during the night. Usually, periods of rainy weather last for only a day or two, and are followed by several days with fair skies. A large part of the annual precipitation results from thunderstorm activity, with occasional heavy rainfall over brief periods of time. Thunderstorms occur throughout the year, but are most frequent in the spring and early summer months.

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falls on about two or three days a year, ordinarily with only slight and scattered damage. Windstorms occurring during thunderstorm activity are sometimes destructive.

Snow Snow consists of individual ice crystals that grow while suspended in the atmosphere—usually within clouds—and then fall, accumulating on the ground where they undergo further changes. It consists of frozen crystalline water througho ...

fall is uncommon. The average length of the warm season (freeze-free period) is about 249 days. The average last occurrence of 32 °F (0 °C) or below is mid March and the average first occurrence of 32 °F or below is in late November.

Counties

Although the terms "Northeastern Texas" or "North Texas" are not official state designations, the Texas State Data Center and Office of the State Demographer lists the following counties as belonging to the North Central Texas Council of Governments (NCTCOG): * Collin *

* Denton * Ellis * Erath * Hood *

Hunt Hunting is the Human activity, human practice of seeking, pursuing, capturing, and killing wildlife or feral animals. The most common reasons for humans to hunt are to obtain the animal's body for meat and useful animal products (fur/hide (sk ...

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* Kaufman * Navarro * Palo Pinto * Parker * Rockwall *

Somervell Somervell may refer to: People * Alexander Somervell (1796-1854), Texan soldier who led the Somervell Expedition into Mexico * Arthur Somervell (1863–1937), British composer * Brehon B. Somervell (1892–1955), American general * D. C. Somer ...

* Tarrant * Wise The Texas State Demographer also lists the following regional county groupings, some or all of which are often included in the informal meaning of the terms "North Texas" or "North Central Texas". Nortex Regional Planning Commission: * Archer * Baylor *

Clay Clay is a type of fine-grained natural soil material containing clay minerals (hydrous aluminium phyllosilicates, e.g. kaolinite, ). Most pure clay minerals are white or light-coloured, but natural clays show a variety of colours from impuriti ...

* Cottle * Foard * Hardeman * Jack * Montague * Wichita * Wilbarger * Young Texoma Council of Governments: * Cooke * Fannin * Grayson Additionally, some other Texas counties contiguous with those named above are sometimes included in the general meaning of "North Texas".

Major cities

Other cities and towns

* Addison * Aledo *

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* Alvarado * Alvord *

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* Anna * Annetta * Annetta North * Annetta South * Archer City * Argyle *

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* Azle * Bailey * Balch Springs * Bardwell * Barry * Bartonville *

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* Bellevue * Bells * Benbrook * Blooming Grove * Blue Mound * Blue Ridge * Bonham * Bowie * Boyd * Brazos Bend * Breckenridge * Briaroaks *

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* Bryson * Burkburnett * Burleson * Byers * Caddo Mills * Callisburg * Campbell * Cashion Community * Cedar Hill * Celeste * Celina * Chico * Chillicothe * Cleburne * Cockrell Hill * Colleyville * Collinsville *

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* Cool * Copper Canyon * Combine * Coppell *

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* Corral City * Corsicana * Cottonwood * Coyote Flats * Crandall * Cresson * Cross Roads * Cross Timber * Crowell * Crowley * Dalworthington Gardens * Dawson * Decatur * Dean * DeCordova * Denison * DeSoto * Dish * Dodd City * Dorchester * Double Oak *

Dublin Dublin is the capital and largest city of Republic of Ireland, Ireland. Situated on Dublin Bay at the mouth of the River Liffey, it is in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Leinster, and is bordered on the south by the Dublin Mountains, pa ...

* Duncanville * Eagle Mountain * Ector * Edgecliff Village * Elizabethtown * Emhouse *

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* Euless * Eureka * Everman * Fairview *

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* Farmersville *

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* Ferris * Forest Hill * Forney *

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* Gainesville * Garrett * Glen Rose * Glenn Heights * Godley * Goodlow * Gordon * Graford * Graham * Granbury * Grandview *

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* Greenville * Gunter * Hackberry * Haltom City * Haslet * Hawk Cove *

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* Henrietta * Hickory Creek * Highland Park * Highland Village * Holliday * Honey Grove * Howe * Hudson Oaks * Hurst * Hutchins * Iowa Park *

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* Jacksboro * Jolly * Josephine *

Joshua Joshua ( ), also known as Yehoshua ( ''Yəhōšuaʿ'', Tiberian Hebrew, Tiberian: ''Yŏhōšuaʿ,'' Literal translation, lit. 'Yahweh is salvation'), Jehoshua, or Josue, functioned as Moses' assistant in the books of Book of Exodus, Exodus and ...

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* Kaufman * Keene * Keller * Kemp * Kennedale * Kerens * Knollwood * Krugerville * Ladonia * Lancaster * Lake Bridgeport * Lake Dallas * Lake Worth * Lakeside * Lakeside City * Lakewood Village * Lavon *

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* Lindsay * Lipan * Little Elm * Lone Oak * Lowry Crossing *

Lucas Lucas or LUCAS may refer to: People * Lucas (surname) * Lucas (given name) Arts and entertainment * Luca Family Singers, or the Lucas, a 19th-century African-American singing group * Lucas, a 1960s Swedish pop group formed by Janne Lucas Perss ...

* Mabank *

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* Maypearl * Megargel * McLendon-Chisholm *

Melissa Melissa is a feminine given name. The name comes from the Greek language, Greek word μέλισσα (''mélissa''), "bee", which in turn comes from μέλι (''meli''), "honey". In Hittite language, Hittite, ''melit'' signifies "honey". Meliss ...

* Meridian *

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* Mildred * Milford * Millsap * Mineral Wells * Mingus * Mobile City *

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* Murphy *

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* Navarro *

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* New Fairview * New Hope * Newark *

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* Neylandville * Nocona * Northlake * North Richland Hills * Oak Grove * Oak Leaf * Oak Point * Oak Ridge (Cooke County) * Oak Ridge (Kaufman County) * Oak Valley * Olney * Ovilla * Paducah * Palmer * Pantego *

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* Parker * Pecan Hill * Pelican Bay * Petrolia * Pilot Point * Pleasant Valley * Ponder * Post Oak Bend City * Pottsboro * Powell * Princeton * Prosper * Providence Village * Quanah * Quinlan *

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* Red Oak * Retreat * Rhome *

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* Richland * Richland Hills * Rio Vista * River Oaks * Roanoke * Rockwall * Rowlett * Royse City * Runaway Bay * Sachse * Sadler *

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* Sanger * Sansom Park *

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* Seagoville *

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* Scurry * Seymour * Shady Shores * Sherman * Southlake * Southmayd * Springtown * St. Jo * St. Paul * Stephenville * Strawn *

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* Talty * Terrell * The Colony * Tioga * Tolar * Tom Bean * Trenton * Trophy Club * Union Valley * University Park * Valley View * Van Alstyne *

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* Vernon * Waxahachie * Watauga * Weatherford * West Tawakoni * Westlake * Westover Hills * Westworth Village * Whitesboro * White Settlement * Whitewright * Wilmer * Windom * Windthorst * Wolfe City * Wylie

Statistical areas

In the North Texas region there is one combined statistical area, three

metropolitan areas A metropolitan area or metro is a region consisting of a densely populated urban agglomeration and its surrounding territories which share industries, commercial areas, transport network, infrastructures and housing. A metropolitan area usually ...

, and seven micropolitan areas.

Dallas–Fort Worth TX-OK combined statistical area

Metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs) DFW Divisions

* Dallas–Fort Worth–Arlington is the only MSA in Texas subdivided into metropolitan divisions: **Dallas–Plano–Irving (Collin, Dallas, Denton, Ellis, Hunt, Kaufman, and Rockwall counties) **Fort Worth–Arlington–Grapevine (Johnson, Parker, Tarrant, and Wise counties) * Sherman–Denison (Grayson County) Micropolitan statistical areas (μSAs) *

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(Henderson County) (In

East Texas East Texas is a broadly defined cultural, geographic, and ecological region in the eastern part of the U.S. state of Texas that consists of approximately 38 counties. It is roughly divided into Northeast Texas, Northeast, Southeast Texas, Sout ...

) * Bonham (Fannin County) * Corsicana (Navarro County) * Durant, OK (Bryan County, Oklahoma) (In

) * Gainesville (Cooke County) * Granbury (Hood County) * Mineral Wells (Palo Pinto County)

Wichita Falls area

Metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs) * Wichita Falls (Archer, Clay, Wichita counties) Micropolitan statistical areas (μSAs) * Vernon (Wilbarger County)

Other

Micropolitan statistical Areas (μSAs) * Stephenville (Erath County)

Economy

Top employers

Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex Wichita Falls metropolitan area Sherman–Denison metropolitan area

Colleges and universities

Sports

The North Texas region has teams from the four major professional sports leagues. Major professional sports first came to the area in 1960, when the

Dallas Cowboys The Dallas Cowboys are a professional American football team based in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex. The Cowboys compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member of the National Football Conference (NFC) NFC East, East division. T ...

began competing in the

National Football League The National Football League (NFL) is a Professional gridiron football, professional American football league in the United States. Composed of 32 teams, it is divided equally between the American Football Conference (AFC) and the National ...

and the Dallas Texans began competing in the

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. (The Texans later relocated to

Kansas City The Kansas City metropolitan area is a bi-state metropolitan area anchored by Kansas City, Missouri. Its 14 counties straddle the border between the U.S. states of Missouri (9 counties) and Kansas (5 counties). With and a population of more t ...

and became the Chiefs). In 1972, Major League Baseball's Washington Senators moved to Arlington to become the Texas Rangers, named after the statewide law enforcement agency. The

National Basketball Association The National Basketball Association (NBA) is a professional basketball league in North America composed of 30 teams (29 in the United States and 1 in Canada). The NBA is one of the major professional sports leagues in the United States and Ca ...

expanded into North Texas in 1980 when the

Dallas Mavericks The Dallas Mavericks (often referred to as the Mavs) are an American professional basketball team based in Dallas. The Mavericks compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the Southwest Division (NBA), Southwest Divisi ...

were added to the league. The fourth sport was added in 1993 when the

Minnesota North Stars The Minnesota North Stars were a professional ice hockey team in the National Hockey League (NHL) for 26 seasons, from 1967 to 1993. The North Stars played their home games at the Met Center in Bloomington, Minnesota, and the team's colors for ...

of the

National Hockey League The National Hockey League (NHL; , ''LNH'') is a professional ice hockey league in North America composed of 32 teams25 in the United States and 7 in Canada. The NHL is one of the major professional sports leagues in the United States and Cana ...

moved to Dallas, becoming the

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. The

Major League Soccer Major League Soccer (MLS) is a professional Association football, soccer league in North America and the highest level of the United States soccer league system. It comprises 30 teams, with 27 in the United States and 3 in Canada, and is sanc ...

team

FC Dallas FC Dallas is an American professional Association football, soccer club based in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex. The club competes in Major League Soccer (MLS) as a member of the Western Conference (MLS), Western Conference. The franchise be ...

is based in Frisco, and the

Dallas Wings The Dallas Wings are an American professional basketball team based in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex. The Wings compete in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) as a member of the Western Conference. The team is owned by a group ...

of the WNBA plays in Arlington. The area is also home to many minor league professional teams and four colleges that compete in

NCAA Division I NCAA Division I (D-I) is the highest division of intercollegiate athletics sanctioned by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) in the United States, which accepts players globally. D-I schools include the major collegiate athlet ...

athletics.

Major professional sports teams

^- Indicates year team relocated to the area

Other professional teams

^- Indicates year team relocated to the area

Division I college teams

The headquarters for both the Big 12 and Conference USA are located in Irving, and the Southland Conference headquarters are in Frisco.

Transportation

Commercial airports

Dallas Love Field Dallas Love Field is a city-owned public airport in the neighborhood of Love Field, Dallas, Love Field, northwest of downtown Dallas, Texas., effective April 17, 2025. It was Dallas' main airport until 1974 when Dallas Fort Worth Internation ...

Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport Dallas Fort Worth International Airport is the primary international airport serving the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex and the North Texas region, in the U.S. state of Texas. It is the largest hub for American Airlines, which is headquartere ...

* Wichita Falls Municipal Airport

Public transit

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 had a r ...

* Denton County Transportation Authority
Falls Ride
* Trinity Metro
TAPS
* STAR Transit