Live in Mistletoe Heights

Mistletoe Heights sits on the bluffs where the Clear Fork of the Trinity bends south of downtown, about two miles out. Harvie C. Lawrie laid out its streets in 1890, the Mistletoe Heights Land Company named it in 1892, and it stayed empty, too dear for farms and too far for houses, until the City annexed part of it in 1909. The rest came in with the vote of 22 July 1922 that took in eleven suburbs and doubled Fort Worth; the association's history says residents fought it over their school, and Mistletoe Heights Elementary, now Lily B. Clayton, opened that February. The deed restrictions barred frame houses and the sale of alcohol, and barred selling to minorities, a clause long since illegal. This guide takes the Mistletoe Heights association's filed area as its boundary: about 172 acres between West Rosedale Street and Park Place Avenue, from the Union Pacific tracks to the river, where the 2020 census counted 1,267 residents, up from 1,134, and owners lived in 71% of the occupied homes.

Two lines matter, and a buyer has to know which side of the second a house is on. The City designated a Mistletoe Heights historic district in 2002: 102 acres in the middle of the association's area, holding 949 of its residents. Inside it, exterior alterations, new building and demolition need the City's certificate of appropriateness, which staff approve in most cases and the Historic and Cultural Landmarks Commission decides for new construction and demolition. The district's guidelines focus on the front and sides of a house. They put additions at the rear or side, allow a circular drive only on a lot at least 70 feet wide, forbid paving a front yard for parking, and send front fences to the commission. Demolishing a contributing house is not permitted except for public safety or with the commission's approval for a garage, an addition or a building that has lost its original integrity. The blocks along Rosedale at the northwest, the strip by the tracks and the southern end toward Park Place Avenue are outside the district and its review, unless a property carries a designation of its own.

No price index follows the association's line. All but eight of the residents live in ZIP code 76110, where Zillow's typical value was $215,820 in August 2026, down 3.2% on the year; the ZIP held nearly 30,000 people in 2020 and is not a Mistletoe Heights price. The six taxing units on a City and Fort Worth ISD address add to 2.18908 per $100 for 2025: a homestead valued at the ZIP figure owes about $2,837 a year, the same house without the exemption about $4,724, and a homestead at the city's $327,000 median sale price about $5,044. The arithmetic is on the Fort Worth page. No public improvement district and no gas well sits inside the line.

The river is below, not beside. FEMA's 2019 map puts 0.9% of the area in the 1% annual chance zone, all of it on the bank, and no census block's center inside it; 3.1% is inside the water district's levee floodway, and the City's advisory high water layer adds a little more by the river with no one living on it. The Clear Fork is not harmless: in 1949 the Trinity flooded and the Colonial golf tournament across the river was not played.

The bus is at the edges. Route 004 runs along Rosedale every 30 minutes, and Route 006, every 15, runs up Eighth Avenue across the tracks, past Baylor Scott & White All Saints, the nearest hospital.