Tarrant County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas and contains Fort Worth and Arlington. As of the 2010 census, it had a population of 1,809,034. Its county seat is Fort Worth. Tarrant County is the sixteenth most populous county in the United States and the third most populous in Texas. The county is named in honor of General Edward H. Tarrant of the Republic of Texas Militia.
Fort Worth is the most populous city in Tarrant County, a...
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Tarrant County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas and contains Fort Worth and Arlington. As of the 2010 census, it had a population of 1,809,034. Its county seat is Fort Worth. Tarrant County is the sixteenth most populous county in the United States and the third most populous in Texas. The county is named in honor of General Edward H. Tarrant of the Republic of Texas Militia.
Fort Worth is the most populous city in Tarrant County, and the seventeenth largest city in the United States, with a population of 653,320 as of 2006. Arlington is the second largest city in the county with a population of 367,197 in 2006 and North Richland Hills is the third largest with 65,750 residents as of 2006.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 897 square miles (2,320 km), of which 863 square miles (2,240 km) is land and 34 square miles (88 km) (3.80%) is water.
As of the census of 2000, there were 1,446,219 people, 533,864 households, and 369,433 families...
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