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City Placement and Geography

City Placement and Geography. Why were cities founded where they were?. GEOGRAPHY! Most city placement has to do with the natural physical geography of a place Early settlement-crowds-look elsewhere. What did early settlers look for in a new place to settle?. Water Food Shelter Defense.

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City Placement and Geography

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  1. City Placement and Geography

  2. Why were cities founded where they were? • GEOGRAPHY! • Most city placement has to do with the natural physical geography of a place • Early settlement-crowds-look elsewhere

  3. What did early settlers look for in a new place to settle? • Water • Food • Shelter • Defense

  4. Early settlements • What do they have in common? • Rivers! • Ancient civilizations settled on rivers • Mesopotamia (Euphrates and Tigris Rivers) • Egypt (Nile) • China River Dynasties (Huang He and Yangtze) • Indus Valley (Indus)

  5. United States • What do Memphis, St. Louis, Minneapolis, St. Paul have in common? • Founded on Mississippi River • What do Louisville, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh have in common? • Founded on Ohio River • Oceanside/bay/port cities? Why? • Baltimore/New York/Philadelphia/Boston

  6. Texas Cities? • Dallas/Fort Worth (Trinity River) • Waco (Brazos River) • Austin (Colorado River) • San Antonio (San Antonio River) • El Paso (Rio Grande River)

  7. Physical Geography of Dallas/Fort Worth • Trinity River-riparian woodland • Grand and Blackland Prairies • Eastern Cross Timbers- extension of Balcones Escarpment • Prairie-forest ecotone

  8. Why did DFW develop where it is today?

  9. Dallas • River orientation shift • Heading south, moving into Texas • Northern crossing of Trinity • 1841 • Bryan’s Cabin • View for defense • Protection from floods • Rock bottom ford • Blackland Prairie-fertile land, transportation

  10. Fort Worth • Southern crossing of Trinity River heading north • 1849-Camp Worth • Blue Mound • Ford-low water crossing • Riparian woodland • Chisholm Trail (1876) • Why not east or west?

  11. Dallas 1872-RR Linkages to Midwest RR furthered economic growth Where the East Ends Fort Worth Military origins 1876-RR RR put end to cattle trails-Stockyards grow Slaughterhouses Where the West Begins Differences?

  12. Irving • Founded 1903 by J.O. Shultz and Otis Brown • Increases in population by 1930s • 357 residents in 1925 • Est. 201,927 2006 • Suburb of Dallas • Technology had to be present for suburb to exist

  13. Galveston/Houston • Which is bigger city? • Not always so… • Galveston-port city, shipping traffic • 1900 hurricane • Houston • Buffalo Bayou to Galveston Bay • Break of bulk

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