49 Facts About Fort Worth

Fort Worth is the fifth-largest city in the U S state of Texas and the 13th-largest city in the United States.

Fort Worth is the city in the Dallas–Fort Worth–Arlington metropolitan area, which is the fourth most populous metropolitan area in the United States.

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

Fort Worth has historically been a center of the Texas Longhorn cattle trade.

Nearby Dallas has held a population majority as long as records have been kept, yet Fort Worth has become one of the fastest-growing cities in the United States in recent years, particularly in the 21st century, nearly doubling its population since 2000.

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Fort Worth is the location of the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition and several museums designed by contemporary architects.

In January 1849, Worth proposed a line of 10 forts to mark the western Texas frontier from Eagle Pass to the confluence of the West Fork and Clear Fork of the Trinity River.

Fort Worth became the center of the cattle drives, and later, the ranching industry.

In 1876, the Texas and Pacific Railway finally was completed to Fort Worth, stimulating a boom and transforming the Fort Worth Stockyards into a premier center for the cattle wholesale trade.

Newly dubbed the "Queen City of the Prairies", Fort Worth supplied a regional market via the growing transportation network.

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

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

Longtime Fort Worth residents claimed the place was never as wild as its reputation, but during the 1880s, Fort Worth was a regular stop on the "gambler's circuit" by Bat Masterson, Doc Holliday, and the Earp brothers .

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

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

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

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

City of Fort Worth is not entirely contiguous and has several enclaves, practical enclaves, semienclaves, and cities that are otherwise completely or nearly surrounded by it, including: Westworth Village, River Oaks, Saginaw, Blue Mound, Benbrook, Everman, Forest Hill, Edgecliff Village, Westover Hills, White Settlement, Sansom Park, Lake Worth, Lakeside, and Haslet.

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

Fort Worth is the most populous city in Tarrant County, and second-most populous community within the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex.

Fort Worth is part of the Bible Belt and as such Christianity is the largest religious group.

The Baptist community of Fort Worth is dominated by the Southern Baptist Convention, National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc, National Baptist Convention of America International, Inc, and the Texas Baptists.

Episcopal or Anglican community in Fort Worth are primarily divided between the Episcopal Church in the United States and Anglican Church in North America.

The Anglican Communion-affiliated Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth was the previous name of the jurisdiction in the area.

Fort Worth is the episcopal seat of the Central Texas Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church.

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

Millions of cattle were driven north to market along this trail, and Fort Worth became the center of cattle drives, and later, ranching until the Civil War.

In 2013, Fort Worth–Arlington ranked 15th on Forbes list of the "Best Places for Business and Careers".

Fort Worth has the world's first and largest indoor rodeo, world-class museums, a calendar of festivals and a robust local arts scene.

Fort Worth is the 1931 birthplace of the Official State Music of Texas - Western Swing, which was created by Bob Wills and Milton Brown and their Light Crust Doughboys band in a ramshackle dancehall 4 miles west of downtown at the Crystal Springs Dance Pavilion.

Fort Worth is the only major city that hosts a daily cattle drive.

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

Fort Worth Woof was recognized by Dog Fancy Magazine as the No 1 Dog Park in the Nation in 2006, and as City Voter's the Best Dog Park in DFW in 2009.

Fort Worth is home to the NCAA football Lockheed Martin Armed Forces Bowl, as well as four amateur sports teams.

The Colonial Invitational Golf Tournament, now officially known as the Fort Worth Invitational, is one of the more prestigious and historical events of the tour calendar.

Fort Worth is home to Texas Motor Speedway, known as "The Great American Speedway".

Amateur sports-car racing in the greater Fort Worth area occurs mostly at two purpose-built tracks: Motorsport Ranch and Eagles Canyon Raceway.

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

Fort Worth Weekly is an alternative weekly newspaper for the Fort Worth metropolitan division.

The Fort Worth Weekly published and features, among many things, news reporting, cultural event guides, movie reviews, and editorials.

Fort Worth Business Press is a weekly publication that chronicles news in the Fort Worth business community.

Fort Worth Report is a daily nonprofit news organization covering local government, business, education and arts in Tarrant County.

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

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.

The Fort Worth Press operated from offices and presses at 500 Jones Street in Downtown Fort Worth.

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Close to three-fourths of the mileage was in the Dallas–Fort Worth area, running between Fort Worth and Dallas and to other area cities including Cleburne, Denison, Corsicana, and Waco.

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

Fort Worth is served by four interstates and three U S highways.

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