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Fruitdale, Dallas

human settlement in Dallas, Texas, United States of America

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 22, 2026
Entity authorityQ5506435 ↗
Source-derived summary

Fruitdale, sometimes called Fruitdale Acres, is an area in Dallas, Texas, United States that was formerly its own incorporated city.

On April 17, 1937 Fruitdale incorporated so it would not be annexed by Dallas. In October 1964, residents voted to disincorporate and Dallas annexed Fruitdale in November of that year.

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The public source identifies “Fruitdale, Dallas” as human settlement in Dallas, Texas, United States of America. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Fruitdale, Dallas and human.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1937, 1964—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Fruitdale, Dallas and human providing the first useful test.
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A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Fruitdale, Dallas”, the useful work is to connect “human settlement in Dallas, Texas, United States of America” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 22, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5506435. Authority coordinates are 32.708, -96.771. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1937 and 1964.

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This entry incorporates text from “Fruitdale, Dallas” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.