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                                                                          About Grapevine Texas

Grapevine, Texas is located in the center of the Dallas / Fort Worth region, 21 miles northwest of downtown Dallas and 19 miles northeast of downtown Fort Worth.

The city is located in the northeast corner of Tarrant County and is home to the Dallas / Fort Worth international airport.  Two-thirds of the airport, including all terminal buildings, are located within Grapevine city limits.  Also located within the City is Grapevine Lake, a major water source for the Metroplex managed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

Grapevine has a total area of 35.84 square miles and is along a transitional zone between the eastern edge of the Eastern Cross Timbers and the western side of Black Prairie.  The terrain is a combination of level ground and rolling hills and is heavily wooded in parts.  The soils are heavy blackland type soils.  The Trinity River and its tributaries drain the Grapevine area. 

Four major waves of settlement impacted Grapevine since its inception in the mid 1840's.  The first wave of settlers came to the area around 1845.  They was a scotch-Irish clan from Southern Missouri associated with the "Missouri Colony".  The first wave of colonists were only in the Grapevine area for about ten years being typical American frontiersmen who moved regularly from one unsettled area to another.  By the mid-1850's most of these original settler had moved out of the area. 

The second group of settlers arrived from southeastern states in the late 1850's and established a community with postal service, churches, and schools.  The community became known as Grapevine because of the wild mustang grapes that grow on the trees and shrubs.  Cattle raising was the major enterprise in the area.

The third was of settlement resulted from the Civil war.  In many parts of the South there were widespread poverty and many people moved west in search of a better life.  Immigrants from Tennessee, Georgia and the Carolinas settled in Grapevine.  By the late 1870,s'livestock was replaced by cotton as a major enterprise.  With the building of the Cotton Belt rail line throughout Grapevine in 1888, the city became an agricultural trade center.  Though the first half of the 19th century, Grapevine was an agriculturally based community that grew at a moderate pace.  In 1951 Grapevine Lake was completed and by the mid-sixties was a popular recreational area.  This new recreation industry helped Grapevine grow from population of 1,824 in 1950 to 2,821 in 1960.

The fourth major was of people into Grapevine started during the mid-seventies and continued today. Since 1970 the population grew from 7,023 to the 2009 population of 49,878.