Mansfield, Texas
| Mansfield, Texas | |
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| City | |
| City of Mansfield, Texas | |
Mansfield City Hall
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 Location of Mansfield in Tarrant County, Texas |
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| Coordinates: 32°34′38″N 97°7′36″W / 32.57722°N 97.12667°WCoordinates: 32°34′38″N 97°7′36″W / 32.57722°N 97.12667°W | |
| Country |
 United States
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| State |
 Texas
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| Counties | Tarrant, Johnson, Ellis |
| Government | |
| • Type | Council-Manager |
| • City Council |
Mayor David L. Cook Brent Newsom Stephen Lindsey Darryl Haynes Cory Hoffman Wendy Burgess Larry Broseh |
| • City Manager | Clayton Chandler |
| Area | |
| • City | 36.5 sq mi (94.6 km2) |
| • Land | 36.5 sq mi (94.5 km2) |
| • Water | 0.04 sq mi (0.1 km2) |
| Elevation | 604 ft (184 m) |
| Population (2010) | |
| • City | 56,368 |
| • Estimate (2013) | 60,872 |
| • Rank | (US: 581th) |
| • Density | 1,500/sq mi (600/km2) |
| • Urban | 5,121,892 (6th) |
| • Metro | 6,810,913 (4th) |
| Time zone | CST (UTC-6) |
| • Summer (DST) | CDT (UTC-5) |
| ZIP code | 76063 |
| Area code(s) | 817, 682 |
| FIPS code | 48-46452 |
| GNIS feature ID | 1340898 |
| Website | www |
Mansfield is a suburban city located mostly in Tarrant county, with small parts in Ellis and Johnson counties in the U.S. state of Texas. It is part of the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex area. Its location is almost equidistant to Dallas, Fort Worth and DFW Airport. As of the 2010 census, the population was 56,368, up from 28,031 in 2000. The estimated population in 2014 was 62,246.
CNN/Money Magazine ranked Mansfield at #17 in 2014 in its annual "Best Places To Live" list. Mansfield has been in that list in the recent past: in 2007, 2009, and 2012, ranking it 83rd, 24th, and 30th, respectively.
The first wave of European settlers arrived in the rolling Cross Timbers country of north central Texas in the 1840s. Primarily of Scotch-Irish origins, these pioneer farmers came for the most part from southern states, following the frontier as it shifted west of the Mississippi. They entered an area where Native Americans had been living for thousands of years. The Comanche posed a serious threat to the settlers, and in 1849, the U.S. Army established Fort Worth to protect the farms along the sparsely populated frontier.
The area southeast of the fort (and of the Trinity River) was well protected and presumably fairly well settled by the early 1850s. In one well-documented case, eight related families migrated to the area in 1853 from Illinois. Three of the four Gibson brothers in this group established homesteads about 4 miles (6 km) northwest of present-day Mansfield. This settlement, which became known as the Gibson Community, included a school and a church building by 1860.
When R.S. Man and Julian Feild arrived around 1856 and built a grist mill at the crossroads that was to become the center of Mansfield, the beginnings of the community probably existed in the oak groves bordering Walnut Creek (originally called Cedar Bluff Creek). The Walnut Creek Congregation of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church had organized itself in 1854. Members met in each other's homes, so it is suspected that there was a cluster of houses in the area.
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