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Irving occupies the gap between Dallas and Fort Worth, and the airport that serves both of them sits partly inside its city limits.

Where is Irving?

Irving is in northern Texas, about 10 miles northwest of downtown Dallas and roughly 25 miles east of Fort Worth. Arlington lies just south across the Trinity bottoms, and Garland is on the opposite side of Dallas to the northeast. Austin is some 200 miles south. Dallas–Fort Worth International Airport takes up the city's northwestern corner, and its terminals are one of the reasons so many corporate offices chose Irving.

Irving at a glance

Irving in Texas

Irving is in Dallas County, one of the small, densely built counties at the center of the Texas county map. Seven Dallas–Fort Worth cities are among the hundred largest and Irving is the one nearest the middle; the metroplex has no single center — that is the point of the name — and Irving sits in the middle of it rather than on anyone's edge. The Texas state page puts it beside Houston and San Antonio.

Las Colinas and the Elm Fork

The Elm Fork of the Trinity River runs down the eastern side of Irving, joining the West Fork just downstream on its way through Dallas to the Gulf; the floodplain is why the eastern edge of the city is levee, park and golf course rather than housing. West of it, Las Colinas was laid out on a former ranch as a master-planned business district, complete with an artificial canal, a people-mover, and Williams Square with its bronze mustangs — a deliberate attempt to build a downtown from nothing on prairie in the 1970s and 1980s. The rest of the city is flat blackland prairie, the dark clay soil that cracks in drought and shifts under foundations across this whole part of Texas.

Cities near Irving

The metroplex neighbors are Dallas, Fort Worth, Arlington, Garland, Plano and Frisco — all seven inside about 40 miles of one another on the US map with cities.