Editing Royse City, Texas (section)

==History==
Garrett Burgess Griffin Royse, better known as Byrd Royse, was born in [[Adair County, Kentucky]], on January 31, 1838, to William and Mary Stone Royse. He was the seventh of 14 children. ''Circa'' 1850, Royse's future grandmother-in-law, Mrs. Nancy McCasland, and her sons bought several tracts of land that were later to become known as Royse City.

Royse was instrumental in getting the [[Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway]] line brought from [[Greenville, Texas|Greenville]] to [[Dallas]] through Rockwall County. Royse City was settled in 1885, when the railway came through the area. The town was named after G. B. Royse, who plotted the town and sold the first lots.<ref>{{cite web| url= https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/hjr15|title=Royse City, Texas|publisher=Texas State Historical Association|access-date=August 9, 2012}}</ref>

After its founding, Royse City preserved its stable, small, country-town status due to its proximity to [[Garland, Texas|Garland]] (21 miles away) and [[Dallas]] (33 miles).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.roysecity.com/index.aspx?nid=59|title=Royse City, Texas - A Friendly Touch of Texas|work=roysecity.com|access-date=8 August 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121025173517/http://roysecity.com/index.aspx?NID=59|archive-date=25 October 2012}}</ref>

[[Interstate 30 in Texas|Interstate 30]] was constructed just south of the city in the mid-1960s.<ref>{{cite web |title= Old Road Maps of Texas, 1942–73 |first= Oscar |last= Slotboom |url= http://www.dfwfreeways.info/pages/oldroadmaps.aspx |url-status= usurped |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20090412155821/http://www.dfwfreeways.info/pages/oldroadmaps.aspx |archive-date= 2009-04-12 }}{{unreliable source?|date= February 2014}}</ref> The city grew south to meet the interstate.

In 2000, Royse City had a population of 2,957. Still a small town, Royse City was feeling the impacts of the rapid growth of the [[Dallas-Fort Worth]] area, along with Rockwall County. The city's location along Interstate 30 between [[Rockwall, Texas|Rockwall]] and Greenville helped to fuel this growth.

Royse City has grown rapidly to the north and south as newer subdivisions have been built. By 2010, Royse City had a population of 9,349, according to the [[United States Census Bureau|U.S. Census Bureau]]. This represents a growth rate of 216.2%.<ref name="Census 2010"/>