Live in Arlington Heights

Arlington Heights was sold before it was built. H. B. Chamberlain, a promoter from Denver, bought 2,000 acres on the heights west of town, and his hotel, Ye Arlington Inn, burned in 1894. What made the suburb was the First World War: Camp Bowie opened in the summer of 1917 on land Robert McCart gave the Army, trained more than 100,000 soldiers and closed two years later, leaving the water, sewer, power and telephone lines the builders of the 1920s used. Fort Worth voters annexed the area on 22 July 1922. This guide takes the Arlington Heights Neighborhood Association's registered area, 643 acres between Camp Bowie Boulevard, Montgomery Street and Interstate 30, where the 2020 census counted 4,565 residents, about 4,600, almost exactly the 4,481 of 2010.

The flood map says no, and the street says otherwise. FEMA's effective map puts none of the area in a flood zone. The City's own maps put 13.5% in flood risk areas, which have regulated building since 15 July 2024, and 17.7% in advisory high water areas: 21.8% in one or the other, with 609 residents on those blocks. The City's 1967 drainage plan already named the problem. After a large flood in 2004 it built about 5.5 acre-feet of detention at Hulen Street and Bryce Avenue and under three streets, against roughly 130 needed for the 100-year storm, and on 27 June 2016 three inches in an hour still flooded homes on Western Avenue. The City concluded that no effective, affordable and acceptable fix exists, and between 2019 and 2020 it bought nine houses on Western and Carleton avenues for $3.8 million. This guide found no public record of what became of them after 2022.

Owners hold most of the houses, and no price follows the line. Owners lived in 1,531 of the 2,460 occupied homes in 2020, 62%. ZIP code 76107 holds every resident here and all of the Cultural District's apartments too; Zillow's typical value there was $363,670 in August 2026, down 0.5% on the year, against a city median single-family sale of $327,000. The six taxing units charge 2.18908 per $100 for 2025, and the water district allows no homestead exemption: a homestead at the 76107 figure owes about $5,772 a year, the same house without the exemption about $7,961. The arithmetic is on the Fort Worth page. The Historic Camp Bowie improvement district adds 10 cents per $100 on commercial property along the boulevard, 7.5% of the area but 27 residents, and is due to dissolve in September 2028.

Two small historic districts, and a few listed parcels. Historic Hillcrest, about nine acres, and Linden Avenue, about three, are City districts where exterior work, new building and demolition need a certificate of appropriateness first, from staff or from the Historic and Cultural Landmarks Commission, which meets on the second Monday. On the City's designations layer, eight parcels inside the line carry the landmark overlay, as any parcel in a historic district does, one the highly significant endangered overlay and eight a demolition delay. The City's layer shows no gas well or pad site inside the line; the nearest producing well is about 2 km from the reference point.

The boulevard is the way out. Trinity Metro's Route 2 runs along Camp Bowie Boulevard on the northern edge every 15 minutes, with 10 stops inside the line, east through the Cultural District to downtown. Arlington Heights High School carries the name but stands across Interstate 30, outside the line.