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Princeton is a city in Collin County, Texas, at the junction of U.S. Highway 380 and several farm roads about seven miles east of McKinney.

Princeton began in the late 1870s when brothers T. B. and George Wilson started farming the site, and in 1881 the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad extended its line through their land, where the stop became known as Wilson's Switch.

When residents applied for a post office they learned the name Wilson was already taken, so they submitted the name Princeton in honor of Prince Dowlin, a local landowner and promoter of the town, and the post office opened in 1888.

Princeton was incorporated in May 1912, with John K. Wilson as its first mayor after incorporation.

Set in the rich Blackland Prairie, Princeton became known as an onion-growing center, and in 1940 a camp of 76 cabins west of town housed up to 400 migrant workers who came for the onion and cotton seasons.

Princeton stayed a small farm town for more than a century, counting only 2,321 residents in 1990, 3,477 in 2000, and 6,807 in 2010.

Princeton's population more than doubled in a single decade to 17,027 in the 2020 census.

The U.S. Census Bureau named Princeton the fastest-growing city in the United States in 2024, after its population jumped 30.6 percent in one year, from about 28,000 to 37,019 residents.

The Census Bureau estimated Princeton's population at 43,524 by 2025 - more than two and a half times its 2020 count - as homebuyers chased some of the Dallas area's more affordable houses.

Princeton has about 7,873 households, and about 75.7 percent of its homes are owner-occupied, with a median home value of about $331,000.