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History · Lake Dallas

Lake Dallas’ post office opened in 1926

More historic than 3% of U.S. towns · #591 of 642 in Texas. What drives it

Most of Lake Dallas was built recently: 0.0% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1998. Below: maps from 1960 on and the census since 1970.

1926first post office
0on the National Register
0.0%homes built before 1940
1famous people
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Quick answers

How Lake Dallas began

When was Lake Dallas founded?

1926

The Lake Dallas post office opened in 1926, the earliest record of the town by name. Another post office, Garza (1881), opened inside today’s city and later closed.

First census: 1,431 in 19702020 census: 7,708100 years

How historic is Lake Dallas?

D−

More historic than 3% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.

What drives the grade ↓
Founding year: the first Lake Dallas post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).
History grade

What drives Lake Dallas’ History grade

On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Lake Dallas is more historic than 3% of U.S. towns, #591 of 642 in Texas. Its National Register listings hold the grade up; its share of homes from before 1940 pulls it down.

D−
HistoryA character grade: shown, never part of Lake Dallas’ overall grade.
Founding era1926, from the first post office: founded 1900–1944, an older era than 9% of U.S. townsDHomes built before 19400.0% of homes (±0.6) · typical TX town 1.6% · U.S. 8.4%D−National RegisterNo listings counted · typical TX town 0.0 per 10,000 · U.S. 2.4C
All U.S. towns we grade (21,289)Ahead of 3%
NewerOlder
Texas towns of 2,500+ (642)Ahead of 8%

Few Texas towns list much on the Register (a typical Texas town has 0.0 per 10,000 residents, the U.S. 2.4), so Lake Dallas’ 0.0 sits below most of its state (34% of Texas towns have fewer) while its 0 listings outnumber those of 23% of U.S. towns.

How sure. Graded on any two of the three inputs instead, the letter would range from D− to D. The pre-1940 share (±0.6 points) is firm at this size. The founding year is the first post office, not a stated founding date.

Founding year: the first post office (other dates in Quick answers). Homes: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register: National Park Service, May 2026 list; each listing counted once (boundary changes and added documentation belong to their listing), and a historic district counts its contributing buildings. How TownRatings grades history →

What stands out about Lake Dallas’ past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of Lake Dallas are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Lake Dallas’s history is told.

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The story so far

Lake Dallas, in brief

Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Lake Dallas yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.

Lake Dallas is a city in Denton County, Texas, United States. As of the 2020 census, Lake Dallas had a population of 7,708. It is located in North Texas, northwest of the city of Dallas, on the shores of Lewisville Lake. The community's name derives from the original name of the lake. It is also one of the four communities in the Lake Cities.

Its first post office opened in 1926. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 7,105 to 7,708 (+8%).

Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.

Timeline

Lake Dallas, 1881 to 1981

Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.

  1. 19th century
  2. 1881Post officeThe Garza post office opens
  3. 20th century
  4. 1926Post officeThe Garza post office closes
  5. 1926Post officeThe Lake Dallas post office opens
  6. 1960On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  7. 1981Born hereDusty Dvoracek is born here
By decade

No old photos in the archives yet

Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.

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On the map

Lake Dallas on the map, 1960 to 1981

Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Lake Dallas. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.

Lake Dallas on the 1960 USGS mapLake Dallas on the 1973 USGS mapLake Dallas on the 1981 USGS map1960Lewisville West sheet · 1:24,000

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Lake Dallas.

People over time

Lake Dallas, census by census

02,0004,0006,0008,0001980200020207,708

Grew from 1,431 people in 1970 to 7,708 in 2020, 5 times over.

6 censuses, 1970–2020.

U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Lake Dallas’ Wikipedia page.

Places that used to be

Lost post offices and burying grounds

Lake Dallas’s post office has been open since 1926. Another post office, Garza, opened and closed inside today’s town.

Garza
1881–1926
Lake Dallas
1926–today
18801950today
1cemetery inside Lake Dallas
Swisher

US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

Stories next door

History across the town line

Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.

Hickory CreekIts storyD−CorinthIts storyC−Shady ShoresIts storyD−

Questions about Lake Dallas’ history

What year was Lake Dallas founded?

The Lake Dallas post office opened in 1926, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

How does Lake Dallas rank for history?

Lake Dallas is more historic than 3% of U.S. towns, #591 of 642 in Texas. The History grade combines the town’s founding era, the share of homes built before 1940 and its National Register listings. It’s a character grade, so it isn’t part of the overall grade. How it works.

How old are the homes in Lake Dallas?

0.0% of Lake Dallas’ homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate), against a typical 1.6% for a Texas town; the median home was built in 1998.

Memory lane

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Sources

Where this page comes from

Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

From Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.