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  • Cedar Hill is located at (32.588454, -96.947325). Adjacent cities are: Grand Prairie, TexasGrand Prairie to the southwest, west, and northwest; Dallas, TexasDallas to the north; Duncanville, TexasDuncanville to the north and northeast; DeSoto, TexasDeSoto to the northeast and east; Glenn Heights, TexasGlenn Heights and Ovilla, TexasOvilla to the southeast; and Midlothian, TexasMidlothian to the south. Most of the city of Cedar Hill is in Dallas County, but a small southern section of the city spills over into Ellis County, TexasEllis County. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 91.3 km sq (35.2 square miles). 91.0 km sq (35.2 mi sq) of it is land and 0.2 km sq (0.1 mi sq) 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. It is sometimes referred to as the "hill country of Dallas" (in comparison to the "hill country" surrounding Austin, TexasAustin and San Antonio, TexasSan Antonio). The city is full of native, Eastern Junipereastern red cedar evergreen trees and stands at an elevation of about 500 feet above sea level--the highest point in a straight line from the Red River (Mississippi watershed)Red River at the Texas-Oklahoma border to the Gulf Coast. The "Austin chalk formationAustin chalk" limestone uplift on which most of Cedar Hill is spread is covered with "gumbo"-cleche-clay topsoil from a few inches to many feet. The western edge of the city, primarily the Lake Ridge neighborhood, falls below the limestone uplift on the Eagle Ford shale strata surrounding Joe Pool Lake. Home foundation problems--similar to those in Irving, TexasIrving's Las Colinas neighborhood to the north and built on the same strata--await those who fail to take precautions in building on expansive soil lying over the Eagle Ford formation. As noted in the demographics below (and like some of the cities immediately surrounding it such as Duncanville, TexasDuncanville and DeSoto, TexasDeSoto), the city is significantly diverse compared to other cities around Dallas which tend to be predominantly of one ethnic origin or another. In the last few years, the city has been booming with new construction as urban sprawl spreads south of Dallas. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cedar_Hill%2C_Texas

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