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Harve Chapman coined the word metroplex by blending metropolis and complex into a single portmanteau in 1972. The North Texas Commission copyrighted the phrase Southwest Metroplex later that same year to replace old terminology.
The U.S. Census Bureau recorded 7,637,387 residents living within the Dallas Fort Worth Arlington metropolitan statistical area during the 2020 census count. Estimates placed the population at 8,344,032 people by 2024.
Dallas and Fort Worth host 23 Fortune 500 companies including AT&T American Airlines Southwest Airlines Texas Instruments Microsoft Lockheed Martin Bell Helicopter Textron McKinsey and Charles Schwab. AT&T maintains its headquarters at the Whitacre Tower in Downtown Dallas while American Airlines operates its largest corporate headquarters complex in Fort Worth with a cost of $350 million.
The all-time record high temperature reached 114 degrees set on June 26 and 27 1980 during the Heat Wave of 1980. Summers bring very hot and humid conditions with heat indexes regularly surpassing 105 degrees Fahrenheit during July and August.
Major professional sports first arrived in 1952 when the Dallas Texans competed in the NFL for a single season. The Dallas Cowboys began play in 1960 while the Texas Rangers started baseball operations in Arlington in 1972. The Dallas Mavericks joined the NBA in 1980 and the Dallas Stars entered hockey competition in 1993.