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  2. Dallas, Texas, USA
Description

These images show the Dallas–Fort Worth metropolis in northeastern Texas. This city has grown significantly in recent decades, from 2,378,000 in 1970 to 7,399,662 by 2017.

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Location

Mar. 12, 1974, Landsat 1 (path/row 29/37) — Dallas/Fort Worth, TX, USA

Mar. 12, 1974, Landsat 1 (path/row 29/37) — Dallas/Fort Worth, TX, USA

Mar. 22, 1989, Landsat 5 (path/row 27/37) — Dallas/Fort Worth, TX, USA

Mar. 22, 1989, Landsat 5 (path/row 27/37) — Dallas/Fort Worth, TX, USA

Mar. 12, 2000, Landsat 7 (path/row 27/37) — Dallas/Fort Worth, TX, USA

Mar. 12, 2000, Landsat 7 (path/row 27/37) — Dallas/Fort Worth, TX, USA

Mar. 11, 2014, Landsat 8 (path/row 27/37) — Dallas/Fort Worth, TX, USA

Mar. 11, 2014, Landsat 8 (path/row 27/37) — Dallas/Fort Worth, TX, USA

Mar. 16, 2016, Landsat 8 (path/row 27/37) — Dallas/Fort Worth, TX, USA

Mar. 16, 2016, Landsat 8 (path/row 27/37) — Dallas/Fort Worth, TX, USA

Mar. 22, 2018, Landsat 8 (path/row 27/37) — Dallas/Fort Worth, TX, USA

Mar. 22, 2018, Landsat 8 (path/row 27/37) — Dallas/Fort Worth, TX, USA

Mar. 12, 1974, Landsat 1 (path/row 29/37) — Dallas/Fort Worth, TX, USA
Mar. 22, 1989, Landsat 5 (path/row 27/37) — Dallas/Fort Worth, TX, USA
Mar. 12, 2000, Landsat 7 (path/row 27/37) — Dallas/Fort Worth, TX, USA
Mar. 11, 2014, Landsat 8 (path/row 27/37) — Dallas/Fort Worth, TX, USA
Mar. 16, 2016, Landsat 8 (path/row 27/37) — Dallas/Fort Worth, TX, USA
Mar. 22, 2018, Landsat 8 (path/row 27/37) — Dallas/Fort Worth, TX, USA

Dallas, Texas, USA Additional Imagery & Stories

Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport
Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport

Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, between Dallas and Fort Worth, opened the year of the first Landsat image shown here, 1974. A new runway adde...

Joe Pool Lake
Joe Pool Lake

Joe Pool Lake, southwest of Dallas, is not present in the 1974 image and shows up in the 1989 image. Impoundment of the lake began in 1986 and opened ...

Rapid Suburban Expansion
Rapid Suburban Expansion

Over the last few decades, Dallas’ urban/suburban areas have expanded rapidly by consuming arable land in the countryside. The city is expanding in al...

References

References (Earthshot Overview/Parent Only)

Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, 2012, DFW Fast Facts: Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, available at https://www.dfwairport.com/fastfacts. (Accessed April 17, 2012.)

Handbook of Texas Online, [n.d.], Joe Pool Lake: Texas State Historical Association, available at http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/roj06. (Accessed April 17, 2012.)

Paslay Management Group, [n.d.], DFW Seventh Runway: Paslay Management Group, available at http://pmglp.com/PDF/Seventh_Runway_080406_4.pdf. (Accessed April 17, 2012.)

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, [n.d.], Development of Joe Pool Lake: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, available at http://www.swf-wc.usace.army.mil/joepool/Information/History.asp. (Accessed April 17, 2012.)

U.S. Census Bureau, 2017, Metropolitan and Micropolitan Statistical Areas Population Totals--2010-2017: U.S. Census Bureau, accessed April 6, 2018, at https://www.census.gov/data/tables/2017/demo/popest/total-metro-and-micro-statistical-areas.html.