Live in Lake Country
A lakeside subdivision of the 1970s at the south end of Eagle Mountain Lake, taken into the city in 2000, where the property owners association is voluntary at $100 a year but its deed restrictions bind every lot, the schools are Eagle Mountain-Saginaw ISD's, and the typical value in ZIP code 76179 was $317,745 in August 2026.
Four developers formed Lake Country Estates Inc. in 1971 on land by Eagle Mountain Lake, the Trinity's West Fork reservoir finished in 1932, and sold it as resort living with golf, tennis, fishing and horseback riding, each house planned on its own lot. The mandatory owners association they chartered that year lost its charter in 1983; the owners' own group, chartered in 1984, is voluntary, yet every lot still carries the deed restrictions it enforces, and the City of Fort Worth annexed the area for full purposes by an ordinance dated 4 January 2000. This guide takes the area that association filed with the City as its boundary, 867 acres where the 2020 census counted 4,155 residents, owners in 77% of the occupied homes and only 22% of residents under 18. Zillow put the typical home in ZIP code 76179, which holds all of them and about 64,000 more people, at $317,745 in August 2026, down 2.5% on the year.
Resort lots of the 1970s by the lake, held together by deed restrictions rather than dues
The area the Lake Country Property Owners Association filed on the City of Fort Worth's Neighborhood Organizations layer (OBJECTID 44133, type POA, stamped 23 May 2023), about 867 acres. The City's layer carries organizations' own filings and says registration is voluntary; the association describes itself as the dedicator to Lake Country Estates and Lake Country Secret Harbour. Traced against the Census Bureau's street file, Boat Club Road forms the eastern and northern edges, from about Villa Lago Drive north past Lake Country Drive and then west; from there the line follows the backs of lots along Westwood Shores Drive, Random Road, Crosswind Drive and Woodharbor Drive to the coves of Eagle Mountain Lake's southeastern shore, and its southwestern edge comes within a few meters of the West Fork below the Eagle Mountain Dam. All of it is in Tarrant County, Eagle Mountain-Saginaw ISD, ZIP code 76179 and the City's full-purpose limits, outside Loop 820. The reference point is the population-weighted center of the 32 census blocks inside the line, near Lake Country Elementary.
Four developers formed Lake Country Estates Inc. in 1971 beside Eagle Mountain Lake, the West Fork reservoir finished in 1932, and sold it as resort living: golf, tennis, fishing, swimming and horseback riding, each house planned for its own lot. The City annexed it for full purposes in January 2000. This guide takes the area the Lake Country Property Owners Association filed with the City, 867 acres between Boat Club Road and the lake's southeastern coves, where the 2020 census counted 4,155 residents, up from about 2,950 on roughly the same blocks in 2010. Owners lived in 77% of the occupied homes and only 22% of residents were under 18.
Membership is voluntary; the deed restrictions are not. The developers' mandatory association lost its charter in 1983, and the owners' association chartered in 1984 asks $100 a year of those who choose to join. But it is also the dedicator of Lake Country Estates and Secret Harbour, and the deed restrictions it enforces run with the land: every owner must submit plans to its architectural review before any construction, member or not, and it takes violations through the courts. Members get the greenbelts, courts, the Waterfront Park and, for a further fee, the gated ramp the association calls the longest on the lake. Residents count five or six homeowners associations in Lake Country, whose dues this guide could not find. The brochure's golf course is not among the association's amenities today, and what became of it is unconfirmed.
The houses are the age of the subdivision. On the appraisal district's 2026 roll the original Lake Country Estates Addition holds 1,064 houses with a median year built of 1978; 602 predate 1980 and 370 have a pool. The inspection and the roof's age matter more here than in the newer subdivisions around it. The roll's median 2026 value for those houses was $371,193, above the $317,745 Zillow put on a typical home in ZIP code 76179, a far larger area, in August 2026, down 2.5% on the year.
The school district, and the bill, are Eagle Mountain-Saginaw's. EMS ISD levied 1.2457 per $100 for 2025, against 1.0291 in Fort Worth ISD and 1.0852 in Keller ISD, so the six units on an address here add to 2.40568 per $100, with no improvement or utility district on top. On the ZIP figure a homestead owes about $5,245 a year and a landlord $7,644, against a city median sale of $327,000; the method is on the Fort Worth page. Lake Country Elementary, inside the line, was rated C (73) for 2026; Wayside Middle C (79) and Boswell High B (86).
The lake is next door; everything else is a drive. The nearest bus stop is 8 km away in a straight line, the nearest large grocery about 5 km by road. FEMA puts 4.0% of the area in its 1% annual chance flood zone and 6.6% in its 0.2% zone, where 33 residents lived in 2020; Dosier Creek and Little Dosier Creek cross it. The City's gas well layer shows no well inside the line, but a producing well about 0.9 km from the reference point. There is no historic district or zoning overlay: the deed restrictions are the design rules.
- Order the association's resale certificate, and the restrictions for the lot from the Tarrant County Clerk
- Submit plans to the association's architectural review before any construction, as its page requires
- Have the roof and foundation inspected: most houses in the original addition predate 1980
- Look the lot up on FEMA's flood map, especially by the coves and creeks, and price a flood policy
- Run the address through EMS ISD's School Zone Finder: 157 residents at the edge are zoned to other schools
How Lake Country got here
- 1932On 24 October the dam that forms Eagle Mountain Lake on the West Fork of the Trinity is completed; the reservoir begins filling on 28 February 1934.
- 1971Four developers form Lake Country Estates Inc., and the mandatory Lake Country Estates Owners Association receives its state charter on 31 August.
- 1976Owners start their own association without the developers, 'as best we can determine', the association writes; George Ireland is its first president.
- 1983On 21 February the developers' mandatory association forfeits its charter.
- 1984On 21 May the Lake Country Property Owners Association receives its state charter, a voluntary body that is also the dedicator of Lake Country Estates and Secret Harbour.
- 2000The City annexes a 1,673-acre tract for full purposes by Ordinance 14047 (case AX-99-007), dated 4 January on its annexation layer, which covers 99% of the association's area.
- 2010The census counts 2,950 residents on the blocks inside today's line, though block lines changed by 2020, so the match is approximate.
- 2011On 24 May an EF0 tornado forms over Eagle Mountain Lake, downing trees west of Boat Club Road and damaging mobile homes.
- 2020The census counts 4,155 residents and 1,689 homes inside the line; owners live in 1,245 of the 1,618 occupied homes.
- 2025On 15 December the Eagle Mountain-Saginaw ISD board changes the Wayside, Highland and Prairie Vista middle school zones for 2026-27.
No City park inside the line, and a 3,560-acre refuge down the road
The open space inside Lake Country is the association's: 15 acres of greenbelts, courts and the Waterfront Park on the lake, for members. The nearest City park is Eagle Mountain Ranch, about 5 acres just south of the line. The Fort Worth Nature Center & Refuge, about 7 km by road, is the City's refuge of about 3,560 acres, with bison and trails, $6 for adults; the water district's Eagle Mountain Park on the lake has 400 acres and more than 5 miles of trails.
What the map does not show: which greenbelts adjoin which lots; the association publishes a greenbelt map.
Elsewhere in Fort Worth, not Lake Country
22 places, with real drive times
Road-adjusted distance and drive time from the centre of the community to each destination, nearest first. Filter by category.
Showing 1–12 of 22 places, nearest first.
Method: distances are measured from the population-weighted center of the 32 census blocks inside the association's line, near Lake Country Elementary. Each is straight-line distance times a road factor, with a tiered speed model: honest ranges, not routed times.
Every gym within reach
The nearest gym is the Northwest YMCA, south down Boat Club Road. The City's nearest community center, Betsy Price, is 8.5 km away in a straight line, and its two public pools are far to the southeast.
- Northwest YMCA: about 7.7 km by road
- Betsy Price Community Center: about 11 km by road
- Marine Park Pool: about 18 km by road, closed after its season ended on 5 September
| Facility | What it is | Drive |
|---|---|---|
| Northwest YMCA open | The YMCA of Metropolitan Fort Worth's branch at 5315 Boat Club Road, south down Boat Club Road, the nearest. | 11–16 min |
| Betsy Price Community Center open | The nearest City community center, 8.5 km away in a straight line. | 15–23 min |
| Eagle Mountain Ranch Park open | The free option: the nearest City park, just south of the line. The association's greenbelts, playground and tennis, pickleball and basketball courts are for members, whose dues are $100 a year. | 5–8 min |
| Marine Park Pool & Aquatic Center closed | The nearer of the City's two public pools, 303 N.W. 20th Street on the North Side; its 2026 season ended on 5 September. | 15–23 min |
The free option is Eagle Mountain Ranch Park, about 2 km by road, or the water district's trails at Eagle Mountain Park.
Eagle Mountain-Saginaw ISD, one school for nearly every grade
Every resident is in the Eagle Mountain-Saginaw Independent School District. On its 2026-27 zones, 3,998 of 4,155 residents go to Lake Country Elementary, C (73), and Boswell High, B (86), the other 157 to Eagle Mountain Elementary and High; all go to Wayside Middle, C (79).
| School | Board | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Lake Country Elementary School | Eagle Mountain-Saginaw Independent School District | 7151 Lake Country Drive, inside the line, pre-kindergarten to grade 5. On the district's 2026-27 zones, which its Find Your School Zone page serves through its demographer's SchoolSearch, it takes 3,998 of the 4,155 residents of 2020; 157 at the edge are zoned to Eagle Mountain Elementary instead. The Texas Education Agency rated it C, 73, for 2026 and C, 75, for 2025. |
| Wayside Middle School | Eagle Mountain-Saginaw Independent School District | 1300 Old Decatur Road, grades 6 to 8: the zone for every resident on the 2026-27 map, after the board changed the Wayside, Highland and Prairie Vista zones on 15 December 2025. Rated C, 79, for 2026 and 2025. |
| Boswell High School | Eagle Mountain-Saginaw Independent School District | 5805 West Bailey Boswell Road: the zone for 3,998 residents; the same 157 at the edge are zoned to Eagle Mountain High. Rated B, 86, for 2026 after B, 89, for 2025. |
Check the exact address on the district's School Zone Finder before you commit. Middle school zones changed for 2026-27, and zones can change again.
Month by month, what living here looks like
Not a highlights reel: the actual annual rhythm, including the dates residents have to remember.
- The appraisal district values every property as of 1 January and last year's tax bill is due by 31 January
- The association's membership year starts on 1 January, and it changes the locks on its courts and waterfront pavilion that month
- Highs near 13.6 °C and lows near 1.8 °C at Fort Worth Meacham, with about 11 nights at or below freezing on the 1991 to 2020 normal
- The association's annual meeting, 6 to 8 p.m., in the Lake Country Church chapel
- Penalty and interest begin on unpaid tax bills on 1 February; about seven freezing nights
- The association's Easter egg hunt on Good Friday, on Greenbelt 11
- Highs near 20.0 °C and 80 mm of rain as the spring storm season begins
- On 25 and 28 April 2026 the National Weather Service confirmed tornadoes in neighboring Wise and Parker counties, one an EF3 near Mineral Wells, with hail up to softball size
- Spring garage sale and concerts in the park at the association's Waterfront Park; highs near 24.2 °C
- 15 May, or 30 days after the Tarrant Appraisal District mails its notice if that is later, is the deadline to protest a value
- 102 mm of rain, one of the two wettest months with June; highs near 28.6 °C
- The association's kids' fishing tournament at Waterfront Park
- Highs near 33.1 °C, with about 22 days reaching 32 °C on the normal
- The Independence Day parade of decorated golf carts, bikes and boats on trailers, and the picnic at Waterfront Park
- Highs near 35.4 °C, with about 28 days reaching 32 °C and nine reaching 38 °C
- The association's back-to-school party on Greenbelt 11
- Highs near 35.5 °C and about 11 days reaching 38 °C on the normal
- The association's Tasty Tuesdays food trucks, on its September and October 2026 schedule
- Highs near 31.3 °C, with about 15 days reaching 32 °C; 66 mm of rain
- The neighborhood-wide garage sale, 2 to 4 October 2026, and the Nature Center's Lake Worth Monster Bash on Saturday 24 October, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
- 113 mm of rain, the wettest month on the normal; FEMA puts 4.0% of the area in its 1% annual chance zone; Dosier Creek and Little Dosier Creek cross it
- The Nature Center keeps its winter hours, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., from October to April
- Highs near 19.0 °C and lows near 7.4 °C, with about two freezing nights
- Highs near 14.3 °C and lows near 2.9 °C, with about nine nights at or below freezing
- 67 mm of rain on the normal
4 more photographs of Fort Worth and the region
Drawn from the site's shared, freely licensed Fort Worth photo library, not photographs of Lake Country itself. Filter by category.
Showing 1–4 of 4 photographs.
About these photographs. Openly licensed images from the site's shared Fort Worth library, found on Wikimedia Commons and served from there with full attribution. None of them is presented as a photograph of Lake Country.