Economic Development > Lake Dallas Community

Lifestyles

Our vision is to be a proud community with unique charm, built on strong family and community values, with exciting lake side, recreational, and tourism assets, supported by a diverse and profitable business base.

Our revitalized downtown area is developing with historic attractiveness offering space for shops, restaurants, office and living.

Lake Dallas is renowned for community events and the public eagerly awaits these family-friendly hometown celebrations including Denton County’s only Mardi Gras celebration, the Lake Cities Fourth of July, Halloween at City Hall and a Holiday Lights Celebration.

We invite you to check us out and see what Lake Dallas has to offer. We’re confident that once you do, we’ll reel you into our community.

Education

Lake Dallas is the home of the Lake Dallas Independent School District -- rated 'Recognized' by the Texas Education Agency in 2011. The mission of the LDISD is to provide a quality education so that students may reach their full academic and social potential. 

Lake Dallas is also a prime location to access three exceptional higher education facilities. North Central Texas College is a mere 3.4 miles away while the University of North Texas and Texas Women’s University are both located 10 miles north on I-35 in Denton.

For more information on educational opportunities in the Lake Dallas area, click here.

History

Lake Dallas is a community on the shores of Lewisville Lake, ten miles south of Denton in southeastern Denton County. The site was occupied in 1852. The area offered water, timber, and farmland, and the community that developed in the vicinity was originally called French Settlement, after the family named French who settled there. In 1881 the community was more formally constituted and adopted the name Garza, the origin of which is in dispute. Garza may have been the chief of a crew that laid track for the Dallas and Wichita Railway, which built through the area in 1881. In 1926 or 1929, after the impoundment of Lake Dallas, the residents of the town renamed their community Lake Dallas. The community's population increased from 489 in 1940 to 1,431 in 1970, reflecting the additional use of the Garza-Little Elm Reservoir (now Lewisville Lake), the waters of which covered the original lake. In 1965, after a nine-year legal struggle among its residents, Lake Dallas was finally incorporated. By 1980 its population had grown to 3,177, largely because of the economic growth in the area between Dallas and Denton. In 1991 Lake Dallas reported 113 businesses and a population of 3,718. Current population is estimated at 7,203 people.

BIBLIOGRAPHY :

Edward Franklin Bates, History and Reminiscences of Denton County (Denton, Texas: McNitzky Printing, 1918; rpt., Denton: Terrill Wheeler Printing, 1976). C. A. Bridges, History of Denton, Texas, from Its Beginning to 1960 (Waco: Texian Press, 1978). Denton Record-Chronicle, September 25, 1960.

Texas State Historical Association, Handbook on Texas