Garland

City in Dallas, Collin, and Rockwall counties, northeast Texas; population (1990) 180,700. The city stands next to northeast Dallas, on Lake Ray Hubbard. This residential and industrial satellite of Dallas was a small town until the 1950s. A market centre for crops from the Blacklands, it also makes scientific instruments, chemicals, electronic and oilfield equipment, missiles and aircraft, paints and varnishes, and clothing, especially hats. It is home to a branch of Abilene Christian University and to Amber University (1971).