Live in Candleridge

Candleridge was pasture until the 1970s, and French Lake was a stock tank for cattle. In 1974 the Wedgewood Development Corporation bought 295 acres from the estate of the oilman O. C. Armstrong, building began in 1976, and a 1978 brochure promised four and a half miles of linear parks, over 100 acres of open space and a lake, with houses from $40,000 to over $100,000. By 1984 the houses were largely finished. This guide joins the areas of two associations registered with the City, the Candleridge homeowners association east of Hulen Street and Candle Ridge West beyond it, about 680 acres south of Wedgwood where the 2020 census counted 5,735 residents, up from 5,442 in 2010.

The two associations ask different things of an owner. The original one, incorporated in 1978, is voluntary: dues are $25 a household a year, $15 for seniors, and 110 households paid in 2026, down from 165. What binds a house there is the deed restrictions recorded phase by phase from 1975, which require stone, brick, masonry or stucco walls, keep fences behind the front of the house and no taller than six feet, and bar boats and trailers from the front and side yards. Candle Ridge West, the streets whose names end in "ridge", is a separate association; the Candleridge association refers its questions to Goodwin and Company, whose page for it bills assessments every year and gives no amount. No City historic district, zoning overlay or improvement district touches either line. The association has posted a 2022 plan for an Altamesa and McCart improvement district with lighted trails linking six parks; the City's map showed no improvement district over either line in September 2026, and this guide could not find what became of the plan.

No price index follows these streets. Candleridge is all in ZIP code 76133, where Zillow's typical value was $259,633 in August 2026, down 1.6% on the year, but the ZIP holds about 46,000 other people, and this guide found no published median for Candleridge. The six taxing units on a City and Fort Worth ISD address add to 2.18908 per $100 for 2025. A homestead at the ZIP figure owes about $3,707 a year, the same house without the exemption about $5,684, and a homestead at the city's $327,000 median single-family sale price about $5,044. The Tarrant Regional Water District takes no homestead exemption at all. The arithmetic is on the Fort Worth page.

The creek that makes the park is also the flood line. Sycamore Creek runs through the middle of Candleridge on its way northeast to the Trinity's West Fork, and FEMA puts 5.1% of the area in its 1% annual chance zone, 0.6% of it regulatory floodway, with 274 residents on blocks centered inside it. The City's advisory Potential High Water Areas add another 7.0% outside FEMA's zone. French Lake is part of the flood control system: its dam leaked in 2002 and the City rebuilt it in 2003, doubling the outflow. There are no gas wells inside the line, though owners here signed Barnett Shale leases in 2008 alongside Wedgwood's.

The bus runs through, slowly. Trinity Metro's Route 52 stops eight times on Hulen Street and Altamesa Boulevard inside the line, about hourly. The nearest 15-minute route, Route 6, stops at West Cleburne Road and Sycamore School Road, about 1.1 km from the reference point, and TEXRail starts downtown, about 13 km away.