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Lake Dallas is a small city on the shores of Lewisville Lake in southeastern Denton County and one of the four "Lake Cities" of the area, with the motto "Get hooked on Lake Dallas."

The site was first occupied in 1852 and the community was formally organized in 1881 under the name Garza, a name whose origin is disputed.

The city is named for a lake that no longer exists under that name: after the City of Dallas completed its reservoir dam in 1927 and named the water Lake Dallas, the town of Garza renamed itself Lake Dallas by 1929.

The original Lake Dallas reservoir disappeared in 1957, when the dam separating it from the new, larger Garza-Little Elm Reservoir was breached and the two lakes merged — the combined water body was renamed Lewisville Lake in 1971.

Lake Dallas was not incorporated until 1965, and only after a nine-year legal struggle among its own residents over whether to become a city.

Lake Dallas had a population of 7,708 at the 2020 census, up from 7,105 in 2010, with 2,764 households packed into about 2.75 square miles — of which roughly 11% is water.

The city is served by the Lake Dallas Independent School District, and every student in town is zoned to Lake Dallas Middle School and Lake Dallas High School, while the Lake Cities Library serves the community.

A bridge between Lake Dallas and Little Elm was removed in the 1950s when the Corps of Engineers expanded the lake, and the crossing was not replaced until August 2009, when a new bridge linked Swisher Road in Lake Dallas to Eldorado Parkway in Little Elm.