22 Facts About Fort Worth

1. Fort Worth is a part of the Sister Cities International program and maintains cultural and economic exchange programs with its eight sister cities.

2. In 2010, Fort Worth won a $25 million Federal Urban Circulator grant to build a streetcar system.

3. Fort Worth is served by four interstates and three US highways.

4. The city of Fort Worth has a lower than average percentage of households without a car.

5. The name Fort Worth Press was resurrected briefly in a new Fort Worth Press paper operated by then-former publisher Bill McAda and briefer still by William Dean Singleton, then-owner of the weekly Azle News, now owner of the Media Central news group.

6. Fort Worth Press was a daily newspaper, published weekday afternoons and on Sundays from 1921 until 1975.

7. Fort Worth is home to one of the two locations of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing.

8. Fort Worth is home to the NCAA football Bell Helicopter Armed Forces Bowl, as well as two minor-league professional sports teams.

9. Fort Worth has a total of 263 parks with 179 of those being neighborhood parks.

10. At its inception, Fort Worth relied on cattle drives that traveled the Chisholm Trail.

11. Fort Worth has a humid subtropical climate according to the Koppen climate classification system and is within USDA hardiness zone 8a.

12. City of Fort Worth contains over 1000 natural gas wells tapping the Barnett Shale.

13. Fort Worth is located in North Texas, and has a generally humid subtropical climate.

14. Fort Worth was the fastest-growing large city in the United States from 2000 to 2006 and was voted one of "America's Most Livable Communities.

15. Fort Worth was acquitted, but his continued attacks on the Acre accomplished little until 1917.

16. Fort Worth often tended bar at the Cattlemen's Exchange saloon in the "uptown" part of the city.

17. Fort Worth had a knack for separating cattlemen from their money.

18. The City of Fort Worth continues to be known as "where the West begins.

19. Fort Worth became the westernmost railhead and a transit point for cattle shipment.

20. Fort Worth is home to the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition and several world-class museums designed by internationally known contemporary architects.

21. Fort Worth was established in 1849 as an army outpost on a bluff overlooking the Trinity River.

22. Fort Worth is the 15th-largest city in the United States and the fifth-largest city in the state of Texas.