Fort Worth is the fifth-largest city in what U.S.
state?
A: Texas and the 13th-largest city in the United States.
It is the seat of what county?
A: Tarrant County.
How many square miles does it cover?
A: Nearly 350 square miles (910 km2).
Fort Worth also intrudes into what other four counties?
A: Denton, Johnson, Parker, and Wise.
According to a 2022 United States census estimate, Fort
Worth's population was what?
A: 958,692.
Fort Worth is the second-largest city in the
Dallas–Fort Worth–Arlington metropolitan area, which is the fourth most
populous metropolitan area where?
A: In the United States.
When was the city of Fort Worth established?
A: In 1849 as an army outpost on a bluff overlooking the Trinity
River.
Fort Worth has historically been a center of what?
A: The Texas Longhorn cattle trade.
It still embraces its what?
A: Its Western heritage and traditional architecture and design.
What is the first ship of the United States Navy named
after the city?
A: USS Fort Worth (LCS-3).
Nearby Dallas has held a population majority as long as
records have been kept, yet Fort Worth has become what?
A: One of the fastest-growing cities in the United States in recent years.
Fort Worth is the location of the Van Cliburn
International what?
A: The Van Cliburn International Piano Competition.
The Kimbell Art Museum was designed by Whom?
A: Louis Kahn, with an addition designed by Renzo Piano.
The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth was designed by
whom?
A: Tadao Ando.
The Amon Carter Museum of American Art, designed by
Philip Johnson, houses what?
A: American art.
The Sid Richardson Museum, redesigned by David M.
Schwarz, has a collection of what?
A: Western art in the U.S., emphasizing Frederic Remington and Charles
Russell.
The Fort Worth Museum of Science and History was
designed by whom?
A: Ricardo Legorreta of Mexico.
Fort Worth is the location of what university
communities?
A: Texas Christian University, Texas Wesleyan, University of North Texas
Health Science Center, and Texas A&M University School of Law.
Several multinational corporations, including Bell
Textron, American Airlines, BNSF Railway, and Chip 1 Exchange are what?
A: Headquartered in Fort Worth.
At this river junction, the U.S. War Department
established Fort Worth in 1849 as the northernmost of a system of 10 forts
for protecting what?
A: The American Frontier following the end of the Mexican–American War.
The city of Fort Worth continues to be known as what?
A: "Where the West begins".
E. S. Terrell (1812–1905) from
Tennessee claimed to be
what?
A: The first resident of Fort Worth.
The fort was flooded the first year and moved to where?
A: To the top of the bluff; the current courthouse was built on this site.
As a stop on the legendary Chisholm Trail, Fort Worth
was stimulated by what?
A: The business of the cattle drives and became a brawling, bustling town.
Millions of head of cattle were driven north to market
along this trail resulting in what?
A: Fort Worth becoming the center of the cattle drives, and later, the
ranching industry.
It was given what nickname?
A: Cowtown.
