The Library of Congress > LCCN Permalink

View this record in:  MARCXML | LC Authorities & Vocabularies | VIAF (Virtual International Authority File)External Link

Garland (Tex.)

LC control no.n 82075689
Descriptive conventionsrda
Geographic headingGarland (Tex.)
    Browse this term in  LC Authorities  or the  LC Catalog
Geographic subdivision usageTexas--Garland
Variant(s)Garland, Tex.
City of Garland (Tex.)
Other standard no.130207481
Q49274
4693003
2104417
1220193
Associated countryUnited States
Found inGarland, Tex. Official street map ... 1970.
GNIS, viewed 26 June 2022 (Garland, populated place, Dallas County, Texas, first called Duck Creek sometime before 1886. In that year, local businesses moved a short distance to be closer to the RR and changed the name of the town to Embree inhonor of Dr. K H Embree, a noted local physician. The name was changed to Garland about 1890 in honor of H A Garland, US Attorney General during Grover Cleveland's presidency. The town was incorporated in 1891; also: City of Garland, civil, Dallas Country, Texas, 32°54ʹ36.22ʺN, 96°37ʹ49.34ʺW (32.9100616, -96.6303724); also another populated place with same name in Bowie County)
Geographic area coden-us-tx