Carrollton is a city in Dallas, Denton, and Collin counties in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 census, its population was 133,434, making it the 23rd-most populous city in Texas.

The area was first settled by Jared Ford in 1842 by William and Mary Larner on a site within the Peters Colony grant. In 1844, the A. W. Perry intimates claimed land in the Place around Trinity Mills where, in partnership like Wade H. Witt, a mill was established.

The English colony, a activity of families in the northeastern Place of deal which crossed into Denton County, was home to large landowners including the Furneaux, Jackson, Morgan, and Rowe families. It is maybe that Carrollton was named for Carrollton, Illinois, the original house of many of these settlers.

Early on, Carrollton’s livelihood was exclusively agricultural, but when the construction of the Dallas-Wichita Railroad through Trinity Mills in 1878, the community began to go to in its industrial significance. Carrollton’s significance was supplementary strengthened later the railroad was lengthy to Denton in 1880 by Jay Gould, who sold the pedigree to the Missouri–Kansas–Texas Railroad (the Katy) in 1881. By 1885, Carrollton had flour mills, cotton gins, two churches, a school, and a population of 150. The St. Louis Southwestern Railway (the “Cotton Belt”) crossed the Katy in 1888, and the town became a shipping center for livestock, cotton, cotton seed, and grain, helping the town surpass Trinity Mills to the north.