North Texas

This article is about the region of Texas. For the university in Denton, see University of North Texas. For the soccer team, see North Texas SC.
North Texas
Region
From top, left to right: Downtown Dallas, Downtown Fort Worth, Denison Commercial Historic District
North Texas counties in red
North Texas counties in red
Country United States
State Texas
Largest city Dallas
Population
 (2020)
 • Total8,584,519[1][2][3][4][5][6]

North Texas is a term used primarily by residents of the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex[7][8] to refer to a geographic area of Texas, generally considered to include the area south of Oklahoma, east of Abilene, west of Paris, and north of Waco.[9] Definitions of the region usually don't include the sparsely populated Panhandle of Texas, which is the northernmost region of Texas bordered by New Mexico to the west and Oklahoma to the north and east.[10][11]

North Texas is centered upon the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, the largest metropolitan area in Texas and the Southern United States. People in the Dallas 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 Red River of the South border.[12]

  1. ^ "U.S. Census Bureau QuickFacts: Hood County, Texas; Erath County, Texas; Denton County, Texas; Ellis County, Texas; Collin County, Texas; Dallas County, Texas". Census.gov. Retrieved 2022-07-20.
  2. ^ "U.S. Census Bureau QuickFacts: Parker County, Texas; Palo Pinto County, Texas; Navarro County, Texas; Kaufman County, Texas; Johnson County, Texas; Hunt County, Texas". Census.gov. Retrieved 2022-07-20.
  3. ^ "U.S. Census Bureau QuickFacts: Baylor County, Texas; Archer County, Texas; Wise County, Texas; Tarrant County, Texas; Somervell County, Texas; Rockwall County, Texas". Census.gov. Retrieved 2022-07-20.
  4. ^ "U.S. Census Bureau QuickFacts: Montague County, Texas; Jack County, Texas; Hardeman County, Texas; Foard County, Texas; Cottle County, Texas; Clay County, Texas". Census.gov. Retrieved 2022-07-20.
  5. ^ "U.S. Census Bureau QuickFacts:Grayson County, Texas; Fannin County, Texas; Cooke County, Texas; Young County, Texas; Wilbarger County, Texas; Wichita County, Texas". Census.gov. Retrieved 2022-07-20.
  6. ^ "U.S. Census Bureau QuickFacts: Taylor County, Texas; Jones County, Texas; Haskell County, Texas; Knox County, Texas; Hamilton County, Texas". Census.gov. Retrieved 2022-07-20.
  7. ^ "North Texas Facts and Figures from the North Texas Commission". NTC-DFW. Retrieved 2022-06-02. It is a 9,000-square-mile, 13-county region that is home to 7.5 million people. North Texas is made up of 150 cities – including Dallas and Fort Worth – with 15 of those cities boasting a population of more than 100,000.
  8. ^ "TSHA | Grayson County". www.tshaonline.org. Retrieved 2022-06-02. Grayson County, in north central Texas, is bordered by the Red River and by Fannin, Collin, Denton, and Cooke counties. The county seat, Sherman, which lies approximately sixty-five miles north of Dallas, is part of the Sherman-Denison Metropolitan Statistical Area.
  9. ^ "North Central Texas Council of Governments". Texas Association of Regional Councils. Retrieved 2022-06-02.
  10. ^ "Counties in the North Central Texas Region of Texas - US Travel Notes". travelnotes.org. Retrieved 2022-06-02.
  11. ^ "Why Grayson County? | North Texas Regional Airport". Retrieved 2022-06-02.
  12. ^ "W5JCK Map of North-Central Texas Counties". Archived from the original on 9 April 2016. Retrieved 26 March 2023.