These images show the Dallas - Fort Worth metropolis, in northeast Texas. This city has grown significantly in recent decades, from 2,378,000 in 1970 to 3,776,000 by 1988. These images show the urban/suburban areas expanding into arable land in the countryside.

Joe Pool Lake, southwest of Dallas in the 1989 image, was completed since 1974, as was the Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, between Dallas and Fort Worth.

References

U. S. Bureau of the Census, 1992, Population Trends in the 1980s, Current Population Reports, Special Studies Series P-23, no. 175, May, 63 p.

Smith, Griffin, and Harvey, David, A., 1984, Dallas!, National Geographic Magazine, vol. 166, no. 3, September, p. 272-305.

U. S. Bureau of the Census, 1980, Statistical Abstract of the United States: 1980, (101st Edition), Washington, D. C., 1059 p.

Satellite images

LM1029037007407190 (Landsat 1 MSS, 12 March 1974)

LM5027037008908190 (Landsat 5 MSS, 22 March 1989)

Maps

The following two maps are mosaicked together: U.S. Geological Survey, 1973 (1952-1953 data revised to 1972), Dallas, Texas: Series V502, NI 14-12, scale 1:250,000. U.S. Geological Survey, 1977 (1952-1953 data revised to 1976), Sherman, Texas; Oklahoma: Western United States 1:250,000 series, NI 14-9, scale 1:250,000.

How to cite this article

Campbell, Robert Wellman, ed. 1997. "Dallas, Texas: 1974, 1989." Earthshots: Satellite Images of Environmental Change. U.S. Geological Survey. http://earthshots.usgs.gov. This article was released 14 February 1997.