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City of Saginaw Texas A City on the Right Track!

storage facility in the world! Burrus Mills, now Cargill, Inc., was the launching pad for the western
swing band "The Lightcrust Dough Boys".

The post office was established in 1933. The city was incorporated in 1949 with John Kennedy as
the first Mayor. In 1966, with a population of 1,740, the citizens voted to build a new City Hall. In
1983, the City Hall was moved to its current location on West McLeroy Boulevard. On January 16,
1988, the citizens voted to adopt a Home Rule Charter. The city is Home Rule with a Council-
Manager form of government.

City Statistics

Saginaw sits solidly in the heart of the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. Saginaw remains an
agribusiness center for much of Texas with some of the largest grain storage facilities in the United
States. Saginaw is conveniently located nine miles north of downtown Fort Worth and 37 miles west
of Dallas. It is just a few minutes away from both Eagle Mountain Lake and Lake Worth.

Alliance Airport and Texas Motor Speedway are located within 15 miles of Saginaw. The Federal
Bureau of Printing & Engraving facility is located six-tenths of a mile from Saginaw.

The Dallas-Fort Worth Regional Airport is 20 miles east of Saginaw and Meacham Airport is only
three miles away.

The City of Saginaw is in the Eagle Mountain-Saginaw Independent School District. EMS-ISD
enrollment continues to grow annually with an enrollment of 18,580 as of October 2014.

The population increased from 1,001 in the 1960 census to 5,736 in the 1980 census. The
population continued to increase to 12,374 in the 2000 census; and 19,806 in the 2010 census.
The current estimated population as of 2019 is 22,380. More information is available at our web
site, www.SaginawTX.org.

Your Mayor & City Council

The Saginaw City Council consists of a Mayor and six Council members. The City Council meets at
6:00 p.m. on the first and third Tuesdays of each month. The meetings are held in the Council
Chambers at City Hall, 333 West McLeroy Boulevard. The meetings are open to the public. To
address the Council at a meeting, contact the City Secretary at (817) 230-0327. For an item to
appear on the agenda, the agenda request form must be turned in by noon on the Wednesday
before the next council meeting.

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