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Sanger is a city in north central Denton County on Interstate 35, about ten miles north of Denton and part of the greater Dallas–Fort Worth area.

Sanger was founded in 1886 as a water stop on the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway, near where the Chisholm Trail had carried north Denton County cattle to market.

The Santa Fe named the stop for the Sanger family, the merchants behind the Sanger Brothers dry-goods stores in Waco and Dallas, who were customers of the railroad.

The townsite was platted on land owned by Elizabeth Huling, and the community was first known as Huling and then New Bolivar before settling on the name Sanger; it incorporated in 1892.

The F. M. Ready family, Sanger's first settlers, arrived in October 1887, the same year the first engine and caboose came through.

The Sanger Mill and Elevator Company, established in 1897 and known for its Silk Finish Flour, helped turn Sanger from a railroad stop into a farming community.

The 2020 census counted 8,839 people in Sanger living in 3,157 households, with a median age of just 32.9 years and children under 18 in about 42% of households.

Sanger has grown fast with the Metroplex — from 4,534 residents in 2000 to 8,839 in 2020, with the Census Bureau estimating about 10,238 by 2025.

Public schools are run by the Sanger Independent School District, whose eight campuses include Sanger High School and Linda Tutt High School.

The country around Sanger is known for horse farms devoted to breeding and training registered stock, and the city has a humid subtropical climate of hot summers and mild winters.