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Corinth, Texas is located about six miles southeast of the city of Denton.

Like many cities and towns throughout Texas and the United States,

Corinth was founded as the

result of a railway being built through the area in 1880, specifically the Dallas and Wichita Railway.

The city remained a mostly agriculturally based community and economy for a majority of its existence since.

Corinth's population was always steadily increasing, but only modestly, and it remained relatively low until the 2000s,

when the North Texas region began its perpetual population boom.

Though the city of roughly 21,000 population boom.

Though the city of roughly 21,000 is well within Denton County limits, the Dallas-Fort Worth

Metroplex, and its seemingly unquenchable thirst for expansion, has laid claim to Corinth,

and the small city serves as more a Dallas suburb than of the much closer city of Denton.

Corinth shares Lewisville Lake with the town of Lake Dallas to its southeast and shady shores to the northeast. All these communities are considered safe, with Corinth reported to be among the best

most sought after places to live in the state of Texas.

Violent crime in the small city is low, about 85% lower than the national average.

In 2017, in fact, Corinth police hadn't had a homicide case in 16 years, since the deaths of University

of North Texas Vice President Mark S. Moore and Sylvia Hunt. That changed, however, when Corinth patrol officers stopped to investigate an out-of-place vehicle

parked against a fence in a vacant lot on a cold November morning that year.

The vacant parking lot located on the 5,700 block of Interstate 35 East's service road,

surrounded remnants of where a structure once stood.

Dirt, overgrown weeds, and trees now took its place.

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