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Lincoln Park was a town in
Denton County Denton County is located in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 census, its population was 906,422, making it the 7th-most populous county in Texas. The county seat is Denton. The county, which was named for John B. Denton, was establis ...
,
Texas Texas (, ; Spanish: ''Texas'', ''Tejas'') is a state in the South Central region of the United States. At 268,596 square miles (695,662 km2), and with more than 29.1 million residents in 2020, it is the second-largest U.S. state by ...
, United States. The population was 308 at the 2010 census. In its history up until its dissolution, it included a single
trailer park A trailer park,caravan park, mobile home park, mobile home community or manufactured home community is a temporary or permanent area for mobile homes and travel trailers. Advantages include low cost compared to other housing, and quick and ea ...
.


Geography

Lincoln Park is located at (33.221933, –96.972759). According to the
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, the town has a total area of , all of it land.


Demographics

As of the
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of 2000, there were 517 people, 183 households, and 137 families residing in the town. The
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was 3,392.4 people per square mile (1,330.8/km2). There were 202 housing units at an average density of 1,325.5 per square mile (520.0/km2). The racial makeup of the town was 85.49%
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, 0.77%
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, 1.35% Native American, 0.19%
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, 11.41% from
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, and 0.77% from two or more races.
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or
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of any race were 17.41% of the population. There were 183 households, out of which 47.5% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 56.3% were married couples living together, 10.4% had a female householder with no husband present, and 25.1% were non-families. 17.5% of all households were made up of individuals, and 2.2% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.83 and the average family size was 3.19. In the town, the population was spread out, with 29.8% under the age of 18, 15.5% from 18 to 24, 38.7% from 25 to 44, 13.3% from 45 to 64, and 2.7% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 27 years. For every 100 females, there were 97.3 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 98.4 males. The median income for a household in the town was $40,000, and the median income for a family was $41,429. Males had a median income of $28,750 versus $23,281 for females. The
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for the town was $13,801. About 12.3% of families and 21.3% of the population were below the
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, including 29.0% of those under age 18 and 9.1% of those age 65 or over.


History

Lincoln Park is one of several towns that incorporated in Denton County in the early 1970s to sell alcohol in this otherwise dry county. Incorporated in 1971, Lincoln Park served the Denton to
McKinney McKinney is a city in and the county seat of Collin County, Texas. It is Collin County's third-largest city, after Plano and Frisco. A suburb of the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, McKinney is about north of Dallas. The U.S. Census Bureau lis ...
corridor of U.S. Highway 380, supplying both college students from Denton and travelers passing through with drinks. After both Denton and McKinney voted to allow alcoholic sales in their cities, Lincoln Park began to decline. Previously it consisted of the original mobile home park, a liquor store and a Trail Dust Steak House restaurant. Due to the land being sold for redevelopment to Centurion American Development, on March 29, 2015, the Trail Dust Steakhouse closed permanently and has been leveled. Also on the same day residents of Lincoln Park were notified that the land was also sold for redevelopment with all residents having to leave or relocate their homes before the end of June. The mobile home park has since been vacated. Little Elm struck a deal with an arm of Centurion American Development, a mega-developer that has built everything from high-rises to master-planned, vastly upscale residential enclaves. In 2014, Centurion made a deal with Nathaniel Parker III, father of Tan Parker (Texas House of Representatives) to purchase the acreage in and around Lincoln Park, one of the state's fastest growing areas. Little Elm then annexed Lincoln Park in an acrimonious and legally disputed maneuver in April.


Education

The former Lincoln Park is served by the
Denton Independent School District Denton Independent School District, sometimes shortened to Denton ISD, is a school district based in Denton, Texas. DISD's superintendent is Jamie Wilson. In 2009, the school district was rated " academically acceptable" by the Texas Educatio ...
. The former Lincoln Park is zoned to: Providence Elementary School, Rodriguez Middle School, and Braswell High School. When the trailer park existed, it was zoned to Providence Elementary, Navo Middle School, and Ryan High School.


References

{{authority control Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex Towns in Denton County, Texas Towns in Texas Populated places established in 1971 Populated places disestablished in 2016