Forest Hill

History

Forest Hill began around 1860. The community was called Brambleton Station and Forest Hill Village before being named Forest Hill. By 1896 the community had its first schools and was established as a suburb of Fort Worth. In 1905 Old Mansfield Road and Forest Hill Drive were the city's two main roads. In 1912 citizens drilled a "crooked hole well," the first private water system in the community. By 1925 the community had 25 residents and two businesses. Forest Hill gained a new source of water in the early 1940s. By 1944 Trentman Company and the Johnson Campbell Company began building homes. The owners of the private water system sold it to Texas Water Company. The community incorporated as a village on March 16, 1946. In the late 1940s the village had around 90 people. In 1949 the village petitioned to be relabeled as a city after reaching 500 citizens; on April 8 of that year the village was relabeled as a city. By 1954 the volunteer fire department, the court, and the corporation court opened. The city had 1,519 people in the mid-1950s. The city expanded in the 1960s. In 1967 the city had 3,800 people; the city grew due to its proximity to Fort Worth. By the early 1970s the city adopted the Forest Hill Home Rule Charter in order to more easily annex territory and to allow for better governance. The city had 10,250 people in 1976 and 11,482 in 1990. In the 1970s, it elected its first female mayor, Jackie Larson.

Geography

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 4.2 square miles (11.0 km2), all land.

Race & ethnicity

Most-observed species

• Northern Cardinal

  Cardinalis cardinalis (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  24,527
• American Crow

  Corvus brachyrhynchos C.L.Brehm, 1822 · Aves
  18,788
• Carolina Chickadee

  Poecile carolinensis (Audubon, 1834) · Aves
  17,778
• Blue Jay

  Cyanocitta cristata (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  17,157
• Red-bellied Woodpecker

  Melanerpes carolinus (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  15,925
• Carolina Wren

  Thryothorus ludovicianus (Latham, 1790) · Aves
  14,730
• Mourning Dove

  Zenaida macroura (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  13,826
• Mallard

  Anas platyrhynchos Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  13,174

Most recent

• M 3.1 — 2024-05-01
  7 km SSW of Mansfield, Texas
• M 3.2 — 2024-05-01
  7 km S of Mansfield, Texas
• M 3.2 — 2019-10-01
  8 km SSW of Mansfield, Texas
• M 2.5 — 2019-07-08
  4 km SSE of Rendon, Texas
• M 2.7 — 2018-12-21
  7 km W of Chico, Texas
• M 3.4 — 2018-05-19
  8 km NW of Venus, Texas