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Since you are located in in a deregulated area of Texas and in the Oncor Electric Delivery service area you do have a choice in your electricity provider. Farmers Branch residents and businesses can choose to stay with their Affiliate Retail Electric Provider (TXU Energy), or you can choose one of several competing Farmers Branch electricity providers: TXU Energy, Green Mountain Energy, First Choice Power, Spark Energy, Champion Energy Services, Accent Energy, Cirro Energy, and StarTex Power.So make your choice today.

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Metrocrest Chamber of Commerce

Carrollton Farmers Branch Independent School District

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Farmers Branch is located within the borders of Dallas County in the state of Texas, and is included in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. A census of the people living in Farmers Branch in 2008 calculated that just over 26,000 people lived in the city at the time, people who live on roughly 12 square miles of land to the northwest of the city of Dallas.

Settlers arrived to the area that is now known as Farmers Branch in the beginning of the 1840's, and the first official landowners to settle in Farmers Branch are William Cochran, Isaac B Webb, and Thomas Keenan. These three men were the first to receive officially recognized grants of land in the region. Within the next year a small community had sprung up in the area, a community that was officially named Mustang Branch.

The name was changed by William Cochran from Mustang Branch to Farmers Branch, in order to accurately depict the richness of the land in the region. The area was an excellent place for faming, due to the richness of the soil. Peters Colony, or the Texan Land and Emigration Company, was started in 1845 within the boundaries of Farmers Branch, causing the community to become one of the most well-known areas of Dallas County. The Texan Land and Emigration Company advertised in many places throughout the United States and even Europe, and attracted a good deal of attention to Farmers Branch.

When the first gristmill and blacksmith shops were opened in 1845 by William Bowles, a Baptist minister, plans for the first church in Farmers Branch were discussed. The plans were finalized when Isaac Webb donated a parcel of land on which the first formal worship house was established, Webb's Chapel Methodist Church. Within the next year, a school had been added to the church. The post office in Farmers Branch opened in 1848, and continued to operate with Isaac B. Webb as postmaster until 1866 when it closed its doors. It was reopened nearly a decade later in 1875.

Local farmers and landowners were interested in attracting the local railroads to pass through Farmers Branch, and many sold the right for the railways to pass through their lands to railroad companies. Within a few years, the Dallas and Wichita Railway was opened, and a track from Dallas to Lewisville was completed with a stop at Farmers Branch. It eventually became part of the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad by 1881.

In 1890, the community totaled roughly one hundred people, and barely achieved 300 residents within the next few decades. The community opened its first brick schoolhouse in 1916, and the population of Farmers Branch was fairly consistent until after 1945.

Farmers Branch officially became a city in 1946, with William F. Dodson acting as the first mayor in the city's history. By 1950, the population of Farmers Branch had grown to over 900. Within the next decade, the expansion of the city was incredibly, and the census of 1960 calculated the residents of Farmers Branch to be over 13,000. By 1970, the population had reached over 27,000 and has remained fairly stable since that day.

Farmers Branch was the first city in America to forbid the renting of property to immigrants that are illegally in the country.