Discreet 24/7 Biohazard Remediation in Lewisville, TX

Lewisville began as Holford's Prairie, a Peters Colony settlement established in 1844 by families including John and James Holford.

In 1853, Basdeal W. Lewis bought the Holford property and renamed the settlement Lewisville after himself.

Lewisville stayed a small farming town for decades and did not incorporate until January 15, 1925, when voters approved city government by 109 to 92; at the time it had about 850 residents and five cotton gins.

The Dallas and Wichita Railroad reached Lewisville in 1881, tying the cotton town into the wider Texas economy.

The 2020 Census counted 111,822 people in Lewisville, but the city's November 2021 annexation of the Castle Hills community pushed its population to roughly 140,880, making it one of the 30 largest cities in Texas.

Lewisville has about 51,915 households averaging 2.52 people each.

The city straddles Denton and Dallas counties, about nine miles northeast of Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport.

Lewisville Lake, created when the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers completed the Lewisville Dam on the Elm Fork of the Trinity River in 1955, covers roughly 29,000 acres and was built for flood control and to supply water to Dallas and Denton.

The Lewisville Lake Environmental Learning Area preserves prairie, forest and wetlands below the dam as a nature area used for education and research.

Lewisville High School, established in 1897, offered one of the first dedicated high school programs in North Texas, and its teams have been known as the Fighting Farmers since 1914 — a name chosen by superintendent and agriculture teacher B. F. Tunnell to honor the town's farming roots.