Plano covers a land area of 72 sq mi, with a mean elevation of 674 ft. The community, settled in the 1840s, developed as a small agricultural center after the coming of the railroad in 1872. A fire almost destroyed the community in 1881, but it survived as a cotton and cattle center. Plano was incorporated as a town in 1873 and then as a city in 1961. Plano’s main growth began in the 1960s and accelerated in the 1970s, when it annexed territory. The city’s name, chosen in 1851, was thought (incorrectly) to be Spanish for "plain," a reference to its geographical setting.

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