Cedar Hill Wedding

Cedar Hill is a city located sixteen miles from downtown Dallas in the southwest corner of Dallas County in Texas and adjoined by Joe Pool Lake and Cedar Hill State Park to its west.

Early in its history, Cedar Hill served as the temporary capital of Dallas County and lied along a branch of the Chisholm Trail. In 1856 a tornado swept through the town killing nine people and destroying most of its buildings. The seat of the county was moved to Dallas not long after.

Cedar Hill is located at 323518N, 965650W (32.588454, -96.947325)GR1.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 91.3 km (35.2 mi). 91.0 km (35.2 mi) of it is land and 0.2 km (0.1 mi) of it (0.26%) is water.

Because of its elevation many local radio and TV stations have their antennas located there. It has the highest concentration of such antennae in the country. Doppler radar equipment for tracking tornadoes are also attached to these steel antennae that reach several thousand feet into the air and whose blinking lights appear like Christmas trees at night.

As of 2005, the city population is over 40,000.