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Frisco was established in 1902 when the St. Louis–San Francisco Railway — the 'Frisco Line' — built through Collin County and its townsite company auctioned lots for a new town.

Frisco was first named Emerson, for banker Francis Emerson, but the Post Office rejected the name as too similar to Emberson in Lamar County, so the town was renamed Frisco City for the railroad and later shortened to Frisco.

Settlers from the nearby community of Lebanon famously hauled their houses to the new town of Frisco on logs to be closer to the railroad.

Frisco was incorporated in 1908, and its first census counted just 332 residents.

Frisco's population exploded from 6,141 in 1990 to 33,714 in 2000 and 200,509 in the 2020 Census, reaching an estimated 236,955 by July 2025.

The US Census Bureau named Frisco the fastest-growing city in the United States in 2017, and it was the country's fastest-growing city from 2000 to 2009.

Frisco has about 77,200 households, a median household income of about $150,212, and a median owner-occupied home value of about $642,100.

The Star, the Dallas Cowboys' 91-acre world headquarters and practice facility, opened in Frisco in 2016 and centers on the 12,000-seat Ford Center indoor stadium.

Frisco is also home to FC Dallas at Toyota Stadium, the Frisco RoughRiders, the Texas Rangers' Double-A affiliate, and the Dallas Stars' headquarters and practice facility at Comerica Center.

The tollway corridor in Frisco between State Highway 121 and Warren Parkway, packed with corporate offices and development, is nicknamed the '$5 Billion Mile.'