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Murphy is a fast-growing suburban city in southern Collin County, northeast of Dallas in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, covering about 5.7 square miles midway between Plano and Wylie on FM 544.

The community's first settlers arrived in 1846, drawn by land grants from the Peters Colony, and the original townsite on C. A. McMillen's land was first called 'Old Decator,' after McMillen's hometown.

When the St. Louis Southwestern Railway reached the area in 1888, the community took the name Murphy and became a shipping point for area farmers and stock raisers, a role it kept into the 1950s.

Murphy shrank to just 135 residents by the 1960 census — mail service had been discontinued in 1954 — but it had incorporated as a city in 1958 and slowly began to grow again.

Growth exploded after the President George Bush Turnpike opened up access in 1999: Murphy had about 6,500 residents by late 2002, roughly 12,000 by 2006, 17,708 in the 2010 census, and 21,013 in 2020 — nearly seven times its 2000 population of 3,099.

The 2020 census counted 5,964 households and 5,143 families in Murphy, and it is a notably family-oriented city: 55.9 percent of households included children under the age of 18.

Murphy is a diverse suburb: in the 2020 census its population was 48.6 percent White, 30.3 percent Asian, and 10.0 percent Black or African American.

The city operates 10 parks covering 195.5 acres; the largest, Murphy Central Park, spans 60 acres with an amphitheater, a two-acre pond, five acres of sports fields, and trails connecting to the Maxwell Creek Trail.

Murphy lies just two miles south of Southfork Ranch, the ranch made famous by the television series 'Dallas.'

Public schools in Murphy are split between the Plano and Wylie school districts: Plano ISD's McMillen High School, serving grades 9 and 10, opened in Murphy in fall 2011 and feeds Plano East Senior High School, while the Wylie ISD side of town feeds Wylie High School.