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Arlington is a city in Tarrant County, Texas (USA) inside the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington metropolitan area. According to a U.S Census Bureau release, as of July 1, 2006 Arlington has an estimated populus of 367,197. Arlington is the 7th largest city in Texas and the 49th largest city in the US.

Located approximately 12 miles (19 km) east of downtown Fort Worth and 20 miles (32 km) west of downtown Dallas, Arlington is home to the Texas Rangers` Ballpark in Arlington and the theme parks Six Flags Over Texas, which is the original Six Flags, and Hurricane Harbor. The Dallas Cowboys` new stadium will also be located in Arlington. The city borders Kennedale, Grand Prairie, Mansfield and Fort Worth, and surrounds the smaller communities of Dalworthington Gardens and Pantego.

Arlington was founded in 1876 along the Texas and Pacific Railroad. The city was named after General Robert E. Lee`s Arlington House (in existing Arlington County, Virginia). Arlington grew as a cotton-ginning and farming center, and incorporated in 1884. The city could boast of water, electricity, natural gas, and telephone services by 1910, along with a public school system. By 1925 the populus was estimated at 3,031, and it grew to over four thousand before WW2.

Large-scale industrialization began in 1954 with the arrival of a General Motors assembly plant. Automotive and aerospace development gave the city one of the nation`s greatest populus growth rates between 1950 and 1990. Arlington became one of the "boomburbs," the extremely quickly-growing suburbs of the post-WW2 era. U.S. Census Bureau populus figures for the city tell the story: 7,692 (1950), 90,229 (1970), 261,721 (1990), and 359,467 (2004 estimate). Tom Vandergriff served as mayor from 1951 to 1977 during this period of explosive development. Six Flags Over Texas opened in Arlington in 1961, and in 1972 the Washington Senators baseball team relocated to Arlington and began play as the Texas Rangers.

According to the US Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 99.0 sq miles (256.5 km²), of which, 95.8 sq miles (248.2 km²) of it is land and 3.2 sq miles (8.3 km²) of it (3.24%) is water.

Johnson Creek, a tributary of the Trinity River, flows through Arlington.