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The University of Texas at Arlington (UTA or UT Arlington) is a public research university in Arlington, Texas. The university was founded in 1895 and was in the Texas A&M University System for several decades until joining the University of Texas System in 1965.
Welcome to Arlington, a community that today ranks among the 48 most populous cities in the country, but which began life as a struggling and besieged frontier fort established when Texas was still a republic.
4 days ago · Arlington, city, Tarrant county, northern Texas, U.S., between Fort Worth (west) and Grand Prairie and Dallas (east). Caddo Indians, the first known settlers in the region, were the victims of westward expansion. An early white settlement (1840), on an Indian council site, was called Bird’s Fort.
Arlington is a city in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex metropolitan area, in the Prairies and Lakes region of Texas. With a population of almost 400,000 (2019), it is Texas' seventh largest, and the third largest in the Metroplex. Arlington is south of the sprawling DFW International Airport.
Though Arlington today occupies almost a hundred square miles and contains more than 400,000 people – it ranks among the nation’s most populous 50 cities – that original half-mile historic square remains the center of today’s downtown area. In the beginning, what is downtown today was the entire town.
Home. History of Arlington. Arlington: From a Muddy Fort to a Suburban Giant. by O. K. Carter. Comparing the Arlington of today—sprawling across almost 100 square miles and with more than 400,000 residents—to its beginning as a besieged, ultimately-failed Republic of Texas fort on a muddy oxbow lake near the Trinity River makes this much evident:
A- Arlington's history is complex, its identity evolving over more than 150 years. It has been a frontier outpost, an agricultural center, a site of Indian battles and a mecca for horse racing and gambling.
