Downtown, the Near Southside, Fairmount and Ryan Place

Fort Worth began as an Army post. In June 1849 Brevet Major Ripley Arnold named the outpost his dragoons had set up on a bluff over the Clear Fork of the Trinity for William Jenkins Worth, the department commander who had died of cholera; by 1853 the frontier had moved west, the Army rode out that September, and settlers moved into the empty buildings. The legislature incorporated the town in 1873, the first Texas and Pacific Railway locomotive arrived on 19 July 1876, and Hell's Half Acre, the red-light district at the south end of the business district, lasted into the twentieth century until ministers and the Army closed it down in 1917. Downtown began to wither in the 1960s as businesses left for the suburbs, and it was the Sundance development that Bass Brothers Enterprises began in the 1980s, with rehabilitated historic buildings and in time people living downtown again, that reversed it. On the evening of 28 March 2000 an F3 tornado crossed the Trinity into the business district, after killing two people farther back on its path, and blew out 80 percent of the 3,000 windows in the 35-story Bank One Tower. South of Interstate 30, Mistletoe Heights was among the places the city annexed in 1922. 5 guides are listed below.

Everything here is Fort Worth ISD, the district the arithmetic on this site's calculators is built on, at 1.0291 per $100 for 2025. Downtown adds its public improvement district, first set up in 1986 and re-established in 2009 for twenty years, whose assessment was 0.125 per $100 in 2025 on top of the usual six units. South of the freeway the City's districts reach the front of many houses: Fairmount is the largest by residents of the 14 historic districts on the City's map, Mistletoe Heights has one over most of its residents, and the small Elizabeth Boulevard district sits inside Ryan Place, so whether a house is inside one, and what that district asks of an owner before exterior work, an addition or a teardown, is worth settling with the City before the offer. And the Trinity runs past downtown between levees. After the flood of May 1949 the Army Corps of Engineers rebuilt the Fort Worth Floodway, finishing in 1968, and in September 2026 it awarded the $169.4 million contract for the north bypass channel of the Central City project, which is meant to take 2,400 acres north of downtown out of the floodplain. The flood map for the exact address belongs in the offer.