Early within its history, Cedar Hill served when the irregular capital of Dallas County & lied along a branch of the Chisholm Trail. Inside 1856 a tornado swept through the town killing nine people & destroying virtually all of its buildings. A seat of the county was moved to Dallas shortly when.

Geography
Cedar Hill is placed at 32°35'Xviii" North, 96°56'50" West (32.588454, -96.947325).

Based on data from a United States Census Bureau, the city has the sum locality of 91.Deuce-ace km² (35.2 mi²). 91.Cipher kilometer² (35.Deuce mi²) of these are l& and Nought.Two kilometre² (Cypher.One mi²) of these are water system. A sum vicinity is Cipher.26% water system.

Because of its elevation numerous local radio & TV stations keep around their antennas placed there. It has a greatest concentration of such antennae in the united states. Doppler radio detection & ranging devices for tracking tornadoes come as well bound to these steel antennae that email two or three century feet into a air and whose blinking lights come out such as Christmas trees when asleep.

These are another time known as the "hill country of Dallas" (compared to to the "hill country" surrounding Austin and San Antonio). A city is good of native, eastern red cedar evergreen trees and stands at an elevation of astir Five hundred feet above sea level--a greatest point around a straight line from either the Red River at the Texas-Oklahoma border to the Gulf Coast.

A "Austin Chalk" limestone uplift on which virtually all of Cedar Hill is spread is covered by using "gumbo"-cleche-clay topsoil from two or three inches to numerous feet. A american edge of a city, primarily a Flow of any stream Ridge front yard, lessens in the image below the limestone uplift on the Eagle Ford shale strata surrounding Joe Pool Flow of any stream. Front yard foundation problems--similar to people inside Irving's Las Colinas neighborhood to a north & built in the equivalent strata--await people world health organization fail to require precautions inside building on expansive soil fabrication on top the Eagle Ford formation. Equally noted in the demographics following (& like a select few of the cities immediately surrounding it such as Duncanville and DeSoto), the city is significantly diverse in comparison more cities around Dallas which tend to become predominately of 1 ethnic origin or even an additional. In a survive pack years, the city hwhen been booming using fresh construction as urban sprawl spreads in the south of Dallas.

Midlothian, "the steel and cement capital of Texas", inside Ellis County is about six miles southeast of Cedar Hill. A city houses one of a big cement manufacturing plant in the United States. That equivalent vicinity wwhen at a start intended as the places for the Superconducting Super Collider project which was eventually halted per United States House of Representatives in 1993.

Demographics
When of the censusof 2000, there are 32,093 people, 10,748 menage, & 8,738 families living in the city. A population density is 352.5/km² (913.0/mi²). There are 11,075 housing units at an typical density of 121.7/km² (315.1/mi²). A racial makeup of the city is 56.67% White, 33.61% African American, 0.50% Native American, 1.98% Asian, 0.05% Pacific Islander, 4.87% from other races, and 2.32% from two or more races. Xi.91% of the people are Hispanic or Latino of any race

Demographics within southwest Dallas County use at times changed substantially since a late 1990s. For decades, in the south Dallas areas rather Oak Cliff were predominately African American communities & African Americans were a big minority class action in the Dallas locality. But, Hispanics became a big minority first around 2000. When big many Hispanics develop enter poorer, around the south Dallas areas rather Oak Cliff, extra moneyed African Americans keep close at h& moved farther south into cities such as Cedar Hill, Duncanville, DeSoto and less in county-border cities prefer Ovilla and Red Oak. When a Whiten people has been comparatively electrostatic, a African U.s. people within Cedar Hill has risen dramatically. Possibly a demographics of Cedar Hill's virtually all flush front yard, Flow of any stream Ridge (a Master Planned Community), has changed in step by using a city as a whole. When of 2003, African Americans outnumber Whites virtually two to 1 in the Cedar Hill Public School District.

When of 2000 there are 10,748 house away from which 49.5% use at times tikes under a age of Eighteen accept the babies, 63.8% come married couples living together, 14.4% have a female homeowner sustaining there are no married man present, & Eighteen.7% come non-families. Fifteen.0% of a lot house come manufactured higher of people & Deuce.8% use at times mortal residing alone world health organization is 65 years aged or even older. A typical house size is Ii.96 & a typical personal size is Ternary.Xxx.

In a city the people is spread retired by having 32.6% under a age of Eighteen, Seven.7% from either 18 to Two dozen, 35.8% from either 25 to 44, Nineteen.2% from either 45 to 6Quartet, & 4.6% world health organization come 65 years aged or even older. A median age is 32 years. For each C females there are 91.Ii males. For each Century females age Xviii & concluded, there are 86.Ogdoad males.

the median income for a menage in the city is $60,136, & the median income for a personal is $63,416. Males have a median income of $41,360 versus $32,207 for females. A per capita income for the city is $23,389. Quint.5% of the people & Quadruplet.2% of families come in a image below the poverty line. Away from a number people, Sevener.7% of victims under a age of 18 & 6.5% of victims 65 & older come dwelling following a poverty level.

Education
A city's schools come operated by Cedar Hill Independent School District.