Fort Worth Cultural District June 2016 22 (Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth)
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The Cultural District, Arlington Heights, Monticello and Crestwood

The city west of the Clear Fork and north of Interstate 30, from the museums and West Seventh through Arlington Heights to Monticello and Crestwood by the West Fork.

Photograph: Fort Worth Cultural District June 2016 22 (Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth) · Michael Barera · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source

The West Side waited for the First World War. A Denver promoter, H. B. Chamberlain, bought 2,000 acres to develop Arlington Heights, but the hotel he built, Ye Arlington Inn, burned in 1894. Then the city leased the empty land on the heights west of town to the government, and Camp Bowie, which opened in the summer of 1917 and trained more than 100,000 soldiers before it closed two years later, built the infrastructure west of town that brought Arlington Heights its development in the years that followed; the city annexed it in 1922. The Cultural District began in the 1930s, when New Deal money helped build the Will Rogers Memorial Complex and the Botanic Garden and the Texas Frontier Centennial of 1936 was laid out on 162 acres. The Amon Carter Museum was founded in 1961, the Kimbell Art Museum opened in 1972, and the Stock Show and Rodeo moved into Dickies Arena beside the Will Rogers Memorial Center in 2020. On 28 March 2000 the tornado that went on to strike downtown turned east at West Sixth Street and University Drive over the Linwood subdivision, whose small wood-framed houses suffered widespread structural failure. 4 guides are listed below.

This is Fort Worth ISD, the district the arithmetic on this site's calculators is built on, at 1.0291 per $100 for 2025. Most of the Cultural District's residents live in the apartments of the City's West Seventh urban village, 4,131 of its 6,747 on our count of the 2020 census blocks. The Historic Camp Bowie public improvement district, whose assessment was 0.10 per $100 in 2025, reaches a few blocks of both the Cultural District and Arlington Heights, so an address near its edge is worth checking against it. And the West Side meets the Trinity on two sides, the Clear Fork along the Cultural District and the West Fork beside Crestwood, so the flood map for the exact address, and a flood policy priced on it, belong in the offer.

The guides

4 communities, guide by guide

The Cultural District, Arlington Heights, Monticello and Crestwood

Arlington Heights

The streets north of Interstate 30 and west of the Cultural District that the Arlington Heights association files, 643 acres and about 4,600 residents; Arlington Heights High School is outside the line.

4,565
Residents of the 162 census blocks inside the Arlington Heights association's registered area, against 4,481 on the same ground in 2010, U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 census
62%
Share of the 2,460 occupied homes lived in by their owners; 929 were rented and 291 of the 2,751 homes stood vacant, U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 census
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The Cultural District, Arlington Heights, Monticello and Crestwood

Crestwood

The streets the Crestwood association files in a bend of the West Fork, north of Monticello, 1,176 residents on 213 acres.

1,176
Residents of the 19 census blocks inside the Crestwood association's 213-acre area, against 1,070 on the same ground in 2010, U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 census
62%
Share of the 459 occupied homes on those blocks lived in by their owners; 176 were rented and 89 of the 548 homes stood vacant, U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 census
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The Cultural District, Arlington Heights, Monticello and Crestwood

Cultural District

The museum district west of the Clear Fork that the City maps for the Cultural District Alliance, from the Kimbell and the Modern to Dickies Arena and the Botanic Garden, with the apartments of the West Seventh urban village holding most of its 6,700 residents.

6,747
Residents of the 154 census blocks inside the Cultural District Alliance's area, less its overlap with Arlington Heights, against 2,954 on the same ground in 2010, U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 census
14%
Share of the 4,492 occupied homes lived in by their owners; 3,860 were rented and 933 of the 5,425 homes stood vacant, U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 census
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The Cultural District, Arlington Heights, Monticello and Crestwood

Monticello

The streets around Monticello Park that the Monticello association files, northwest of the Cultural District and south of Crestwood, with 2,054 residents.

2,054
Residents of the 56 census blocks inside the Monticello association's area, against 1,998 on the same ground in 2010, U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 census
72%
Share of the 1,001 occupied homes on those blocks lived in by their owners; 276 were rented and 83 of the 1,084 homes stood vacant, U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 census
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Photographs: The UNT Health Science Center tower by Michael Barera, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons · The Fort Worth skyline from the Trinity Trails by DerekAyala27, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.