Turtle Creek is a neighborhood running along
Turtle Creek and adjacent
Turtle Creek Boulevard in the
Oak Lawn area of
Dallas
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Turtle Creek has also become an adopted nickname for the Oak Lawn neighborhood, though never an official one. The nickname also sometimes applies to a spillover of the Uptown area, which has become the official moniker for the area between
downtown Dallas
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and Oak Lawn beginning in the 1980s. (In actuality, however, Uptown itself is a part of the Oak Lawn district, as is the Turtle Creek neighborhood.)
The name Turtle Creek also graces a number of business and real estate properties in the area, many of which have addresses away from Turtle Creek Boulevard. There is even a ''
Turtle Creek News'' which is published twice weekly and circulated in
Uptown, Oak Lawn and
Highland Park.
Media
''
The Dallas Morning News
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'' is the Dallas citywide newspaper.
Park Cities People' is a local community newspaper.
External links
The Turtle Creek AssociationPhotographs and Descriptions of Every Turtle Creek Neighborhood
http://turtlecreeknews.com
References
Photographs Representing Every Style Home, High-Rise, and Town-House in Stylish Turtle Creek
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