Southlake, Texas
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Southlake is a city located primarily in the northeastern part of Tarrant County, Texas. A small northernly region of the city is in Denton County, United States. The population was 21,519 at the 2000 census.
Southlake is well known for its Southlake Town Square project, a massive shopping center located on State Highway 114 and Southlake Boulevard. It is one of the most popular shopping centers in Tarrant County, especially when judged in proportion to the population of Southlake. A plan was approved in March 2005 that allowed the Town Square's area to be doubled.
Sabre Holdings, an S&P 500 company and owner of Travelocity, is headquartered in Southlake.
The Dallas Burn (now FC Dallas) were located in Southlake before and after moves to the Cotton Bowl. They moved again to Frisco, Texas in 2005.
Southlake is also home to the Carroll Dragons. Belonging to the Carroll Independent School District, the Carroll Dragons high school football team was mythically ranked #1 in numerous national high school football polls in the country in 2004 and 2005 and won the division 5A state championship in 2002, 2004, and 2005 while being the runner up in 2003. In addition to Carroll's three 5A titles, Carroll won state championship titles in 1988, 1992, and 1993 as a classification 3A school. Carroll posted 16-0 records all six championship years. The current head coach is Todd Dodge. The Carroll Dragons most recent state championship was the 2006 state robotics championship, which they won in February of 2006. This championship is the latest addition to their list of numerous other state championships.
Dawson Middle School, named for George Dawson (a man who learned to read when he was near 100 years old), performed in the Global Virtual Classroom contest and placed third in their first year in the contest.
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[edit] Geography
Southlake is located at (32.946678, -97.145230)GR1.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 58.1 km² (22.5 mi²). 56.7 km² (21.9 mi²) of it is land and 1.4 km² (0.6 mi²) of it (2.45%) is water.
[edit] Demographics
As of the censusGR2 of 2000, there were 21,519 people, 6,414 households, and 5,958 families residing in the city. The population density was 379.6/km² (983.0/mi²). There were 6,614 housing units at an average density of 116.7/km² (302.1/mi²). The racial makeup of the city was 94.54% White, 1.39% African American, 0.25% Native American, 1.79% Asian, 0.01% Pacific Islander, 0.81% from other races, and 1.20% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 3.67% of the population.
There were 6,414 households out of which 60.5% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 88.0% were married couples living together, 3.5% had a female householder with no husband present, and 7.1% were non-families. 5.4% of all households were made up of individuals and 1.2% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 3.35 and the average family size was 3.48.
In the city the population was spread out with 37.1% under the age of 18, 3.9% from 18 to 24, 30.2% from 25 to 44, 25.7% from 45 to 64, and 3.1% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 37 years. For every 100 females there were 100.6 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 98.0 males.
The median income for a household in the city was $131,549, and the median income for a family was $136,023. Males had a median income of $100,000 versus $46,042 for females. The per capita income for the city was $47,597. About 1.3% of families and 1.8% of the population were below the poverty line, including 2.0% of those under age 18 and 2.1% of those age 65 or over.
[edit] Education
Most of Southlake is in the Carroll Independent School District.
Small portions of the city extend into the Northwest Independent School District, Grapevine-Colleyville Independent School District, and Keller Independent School District.
[edit] External links
- Maps and aerial photos
- Street map from Google Maps, or Yahoo! Maps, or Windows Live Local
- Satellite image from Google Maps, Windows Live Local, WikiMapia
- Topographic map from TopoZone
- Aerial image or topographic map from TerraServer-USA
- Southlake, Texas official site
- Southlake Town Square
- North Central Texas Council of Governments Southlake page
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