Short answers, pulled from the story.
Frisco takes its name from the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway, nicknamed "the Frisco." In 1902, the railway built a watering stop for its steam locomotives about 4 miles west of the existing community of Lebanon. Residents voted in 1904 to name the new town "Frisco City" in honor of the railway, and the name was later shortened to Frisco.
Frisco was the fastest-growing city in the United States in 2017 and also from 2000 to 2009. Its population rose from 33,714 in 2000 to 116,989 in 2010 and reached 200,509 in the 2020 census.
Frisco is home to the headquarters and training facilities of the Dallas Cowboys NFL team at The Star, FC Dallas of Major League Soccer at Toyota Stadium, the Frisco RoughRiders Double-A Minor League Baseball team at Riders Field, the Texas Legends of the NBA G League at Comerica Center, and the Frisco Fighters of the Indoor Football League. The Dallas Stars NHL team practices at Comerica Center and the PGA of America has its headquarters in Frisco.
The Star is a 91-acre complex in Frisco that serves as the corporate headquarters and training facility for the Dallas Cowboys. It includes the Ford Center at the Star, a 12,000-seat indoor stadium. The complex opened in June 2016 in time for the 2016 NFL season, and Frisco ISD contributed $30 million toward the Ford Center in exchange for the right to hold high school football games there.
The Frisco Public Library moved into a converted warehouse building in March 2023 and is the sixth-largest library in Texas. It is notable for housing a full-size Tyrannosaurus skeleton named Rexy.
The first season of Dallas, filmed in 1978, used the Cloyce Box Ranch in Frisco as the location for the Ewing family home. The house burned down during renovations in 1987, and its steel skeleton still stands on what is now Brinkmann Ranch, the largest family-owned estate in Frisco.