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Garland is a city in Collin, Dallas, and Rockwall Counties in the U.S. state of Texas. It is a Neastern suburb of Dallas and is a major part of the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. As of the 2000 census, the city had a populus of 215,768, making it the tenth-most thickly settled city in Texas and the eighty-sixth most thickly settled city in the US.

Settlers began arriving in the Peters colony area around 1850 but a community wasn`t created until 1874. Two communities sprung up in the area: "Embree," named for the physician K. H. Embree, and "Duck Creek," named for the local creek of the same name. A rivalry between the two towns ensued as the area began to grow around the Santa Fe Railroad depot. Eventually, to settle a dispute over which town should have the local post office, Dallas County Judge Thomas A. Nash asked visiting Congressman Joe Abbott to move the post office between the two towns, which was done in 1887. The new location was named "Garland" after Attorney General Augustus Hill Garland. Embree and Duck Creek were combined to form the city of Garland. In 1891, the new city was incorporated. By 1904 the town had a populus of 819 people.

On May 9, 1927, a devastating tornado annihilated much of the town and killed 17 people, including former mayor S. E. Nicholson.

Businesses began to move into the area in the late 1930s. The Craddock food company and later the Byer-Rolnick hat factory (now owned by Resistol) moved into the area. In 1937, KRLD, a major Dallas radio station, built a radio tower in Garland, which is operational to this day. During WW2, several aircraft plants were operated in the area and Kraft Foods purchased one after the war for their own manufacturing usage. By 1950, the populus had reached 10,571 people.

Following WW2, the subcitified populus boom that the nation experienced also reached Garland. By 1960, the populus had more than tripled from 1950 numbers to 38,501. By 1970, it more than doubled again to 81,437. By 1980, the populus had crossed the 100,000-person threshold with 138,857 people.

Garland is located at 32°54`26?N, 96°38`7?W (32.907325, -96.635197). According to the US Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 57.1 sq miles (147.9 km²).None of the area is covered with water.