Welcome to Garland. There are about 246,018 of us here, across 57.1 square miles of Dallas, Collin and Rockwall counties. We've been a town since 1891.
Kids here go to Garland ISD, and our ZIP codes are 75040, 75041, 75042, 75043 and 75044. Downtown Dallas is about 15 miles away, but you'll find most of what you need right here.
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Garland was born from a rivalry between two railroad towns. Settlers had farmed along Duck Creek, northeast of Dallas, since the days of the Peters Colony. In 1886 two railroads, the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe and the Dallas and Greenville, crossed nearby but missed the old settlement, and a new community called Embree grew up beside the tracks. After a fire burned much of Duck Creek's business district in 1887, the two towns argued over the post office. Congressman Joseph Abbott settled it by placing a new post office between them and naming it for U.S. Attorney General Augustus H. Garland. The combined town took that name and incorporated in 1891.
Garland rebuilt around a town square after another fire in 1899, and in 1923 it started its own electric utility, Garland Power & Light, which the city still runs. Factories followed in the 1930s and 1940s, from a pickle company and a hat maker to wartime aircraft plants, and after the war Kraft Foods took over the old Continental Motors plant. The population climbed from about 10,000 in 1950 to more than 246,000 in the 2020 census, making Garland one of the largest cities in Texas. Today its historic downtown square, the Landmark Museum in the 1901 Santa Fe depot and the shoreline of Lake Ray Hubbard sit alongside thousands of local businesses, and this directory exists to help you find them.