Facts About Arlington
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The average altitude is 184 metres (604 feet) above sea level.
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The city covers a total area of 99.5 square kilometres (258 square miles).
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Arlington is the fiftieth-most populous city in the United States, the seventh-most populous city in the state of Texas, and the largest city in the state that is not a county seat.
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An early white settlement (1840), on an Indian council site, was called Bird’s Fort.
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In the Republic of Texas 1843 signed a peace treaty with nine Indian tribes at what is now Arlington.
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The city itself was laid out by railroad men in 1876 and named after General Robert E. Lee’s Arlington House in Arlington County, Virginia.
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Arlington falls in the Cfa (humid subtropical) region of the Köppen climate classification system which is a climate zone characterized by hot, humid summers and mild to cool winters. The highest recorded temperature was 113 °F (45 °C) in 1980.
The lowest recorded temperature was −8 °F (−22 °C) in 1899.
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European settlement in the Arlington area dates back at least to the 1840s.
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Arlington is the headquarters of American Mensa, the largest and oldest “High IQ Society” in the world.
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Arlington and Bad Königshofen, Germany have been sister cities since 1952.
