Our Irving logo carries Texas's longhorn and Lone Star, drawn in worn black and white above ‘Texas Republic — Est. 1845,’ the shared retro emblem of our Texas towns. The longhorn stands for ranching toughness and the star for the Lone Star State, and the 1845 date marks Texas statehood; the emblem is the through-line that links Irving to every other Texas town we make. What makes this one Irving is everything around it — the mustangs, the canals of Las Colinas, and a farm town that became a city of the world.
For half a century Irving stayed a quiet farm town of churches and cotton fields. Then the postwar boom found it. Through the 1950s and 1960s the prairie filled with subdivisions, schools, and highways as families poured into affordable new homes within reach of both downtowns. The decisive stroke came on the town's western edge, where the giant new Dallas/Fort Worth airport opened in 1974 — suddenly Irving sat beside one of the busiest gateways in the country, and the farm town's in-between location turned into a business address.
Why People Visit Irving
Irving offers art, water, and wild bronze horses in the middle of the Metroplex. Visitors come for the Mustangs, the canals, and the music, and stay for a central, easygoing base beside DFW with museums, sculpture plazas, and trails close at hand. It is both a cultural stop and a convenient home base, with year-round appeal in its parks, paths, and public spaces.
