Houston Street (Dallas)

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Houston Street is a major street in Dallas, Texas. The street marks the east edge of Dealey Plaza.^[1]

Dallas is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the seat of Dallas County, with portions extending into Collin, Denton, Kaufman and Rockwall counties. With an estimated 2018 population of 1,345,047, it is the ninth most-populous city in the U.S. and third in Texas after Houston and San Antonio. Located in North Texas, the city of Dallas is the main core of the largest metropolitan area in the Southern United States and the largest inland metropolitan area in the U.S. that lacks any navigable link to the sea. It is the most populous city in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, the fourth-largest metropolitan area in the country at 7.5 million people as of 2018. The city's combined statistical area is the seventh-largest in the U.S. as of 2017, with 7,846,293 residents.

Texas is the second largest state in the United States by both area and population. Geographically located in the South Central region of the country, Texas shares borders with the U.S. states of Louisiana to the east, Arkansas to the northeast, Oklahoma to the north, New Mexico to the west, and the Mexican states of Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León, and Tamaulipas to the southwest, and has a coastline with the Gulf of Mexico to the southeast.

Dealey Plaza is a city park in the West End district of downtown Dallas, Texas. It is sometimes called the "birthplace of Dallas". It also was the location of the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy, on November 22, 1963. The Dealey Plaza Historic District was named a National Historic Landmark in 1993 to preserve Dealey Plaza, street rights-of-way, and buildings and structures by the plaza visible from the assassination site, that have been identified as witness locations or as possible locations for assassin(s).

The street crosses the Trinity River at the Houston Street Viaduct. Completed in 1910, the bridge was the first permanent crossing of the river.^[2]

The Trinity River is a 710-mile-long (1,140 km) river in Texas, and is the longest river with a watershed entirely within the U.S. state of Texas. It rises in extreme northern Texas, a few miles south of the Red River. The headwaters are separated by the high bluffs on the southern side of the Red River.

Viaduct A multiple span bridge crossing an extended lower area

A viaduct is a bridge composed of several small spans for crossing a valley, dry or wetland, or forming an overpass or flyover.

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References

↑ Ford, Gerald (2005). President John F. Kennedy: Assassination Report of the Warren Commission. p. 33. ISBN 9780974776910.
↑ Appleton, Roy (24 October 2010). "For a century, Houston Street Viaduct has been a vital link for Dallas". Dallas Morning News . Retrieved 8 December 2012.

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[1] Ford, Gerald (2005). President John F. Kennedy: Assassination Report of the Warren Commission. p. 33. ISBN 9780974776910.

[2] Appleton, Roy (24 October 2010). "For a century, Houston Street Viaduct has been a vital link for Dallas". Dallas Morning News . Retrieved 8 December 2012.