Live in Monticello
The curving streets the Monticello Land Company began in 1928, and their neighbors down to West Seventh Street, where owners live in seven of ten homes, no City historic district stands in the way of a teardown, and more than a fifth of the ground sits on the City's own flood maps though FEMA's shows none.
W. J. Bailey's Monticello Land Company began development here in 1928, on ground the realtors' profile says held Camp Bowie's infantry in 1917 and 1918, and the neighborhood association's area now runs from White Settlement Road down to West Seventh Street, where the 2020 census counted 2,054 residents, up from 1,998 on the same ground in 2010, with owners in 72% of the occupied homes. No City historic district covers any of it, and TCU's map of building ages shows 1920s houses next to new ones built on cleared lots. FEMA's flood map puts none of the area in its 1% annual chance zone, but the City's own storm drain and high-water layers cover 22.7% of it. Zillow's typical value for ZIP code 76107 was $363,670 in August 2026, but the ZIP runs far beyond these streets and is not a Monticello price.
A 1928 subdivision with no historic district, where new houses go up between the old
The Monticello neighborhood association's area on the City of Fort Worth's Neighborhood Organizations layer (OBJECTID 44098), about 308 acres, traced against the Census Bureau's road file: White Settlement Road on the north, from Westview Avenue east to Bailey Avenue; on the east, Bailey Avenue south to Hamilton Avenue and then Arch Adams Street down to West Seventh Street; West Seventh Street on the south; and on the west Rivercrest Drive north from West Seventh, then a line around Hazelwood Drive West and Alta Drive and along the backs of the lots on North Rivercrest Drive to White Settlement Road. Registration is voluntary and the City does not say it checks the line. The Greater Fort Worth Association of REALTORS' profile draws a smaller Monticello, bounded by White Settlement Road, Bailey Avenue, West Fourth Street and Westview Avenue, and puts the original subdivision at 160 acres, so this guide's area takes in streets south to West Seventh and west to Rivercrest Drive that the profile leaves out. Crestwood's association area adjoins it across White Settlement Road. All of it is in Tarrant County and Fort Worth ISD.
Monticello is the ground between White Settlement Road and West Seventh Street, two miles west of downtown. W. J. Bailey owned it by 1901, and the realtors' profile of the neighborhood says Camp Bowie's infantry was quartered here in 1917 and 1918. Bailey formed the Monticello Land Company in 1928, had the Kansas City firm Hare & Hare lay out curving streets, and opened 125 acres with lots that had to be at least 50 feet wide and built in brick, stone or stucco. This guide takes the Monticello association's area on the City's map as its boundary: about 308 acres from White Settlement Road to West Seventh, between Bailey Avenue and Arch Adams Street on the east and Rivercrest Drive on the west, where the 2020 census counted 2,054 residents, up from 1,998 in 2010. The realtors' profile draws it smaller, to West Fourth Street and Westview Avenue.
Nothing here is a City historic district, and that is the deciding fact. None of the 14 districts on the City's map touches the line, so a certificate of appropriateness is needed for one landmark house only, at 3912 Monticello Drive, and a demolition delay applies to one lot on Westview Avenue. Everywhere else an owner can take a house down under the ordinary permits. About four fifths of the ground is zoned for one-family houses, mostly on lots of at least 10,000 square feet, and about a tenth is two-family. TCU's map of building ages shows the result: on many streets a house of the 1920s stands next to one built in the last five years. Whether the 1928 lot rules still bind a given deed is a question for the title company; this guide could not find out.
No price follows the association's line. Every resident is in ZIP code 76107, where Zillow's typical value was $363,670 in August 2026, down 0.5% on the year, but the ZIP held 31,591 people in 2020 and runs well beyond these streets. The City's median single-family sale was $327,000. Owners live in 72% of the occupied homes. 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 $5,772 a year, and the same house without the exemption about $7,961. No public improvement district adds to it. The arithmetic is on the Fort Worth page.
The flood risk is the City's map, not FEMA's. FEMA's effective map puts none of Monticello in its 1% annual chance zone. The City maps what FEMA does not: 10% of the area lies in a City Flood Risk Area, here the storm drain inundation from its Near West Side study, which has regulated development since 15 July 2024, and 20.3% in advisory Potential High Water Areas, which the layer files under two creeks, the Clear Fork of the Trinity and Lakeworth, the West Fork below Lake Worth: the neighborhood drains both ways. Together they cover 22.7% of the area and the blocks of 175 residents. The City's gas well layer shows no well or pad site inside the line; the nearest producing well is 1.33 km from the reference point.
The bus is at the edge, and the change is next door. Trinity Metro's Route 2 runs every 15 minutes on Camp Bowie Boulevard, 0.78 km from the reference point, and Route 53 stops hourly on White Settlement Road. East across University Drive, ground was broken on 5 March 2026 for Westside Village, a $1.7 billion development whose first 308 apartments and office tower are due in 2028.
- Look up the lot's zoning: A-10, A-7.5, A-5 and B allow different things
- Check the City's flood risk and high-water layers for the lot; FEMA's map shows nothing here
- Ask the title company whether the 1928 subdivision restrictions still bind the deed
- File for the homestead exemption with the Tarrant Appraisal District once you live there
- Run the address through Fort Worth ISD's School Finder before you rely on the schools named here
How Monticello got here
- 1854The land is surveyed as part of the Joseph W. Conner Survey, two miles west of what becomes the business district.
- 1901W. J. Bailey owns the land; his mansion stands on White Settlement Road, later the Elks Lodge, since demolished.
- 1917Camp Bowie opens on 24 August to train the 36th Infantry Division; the realtors' profile says the infantry was quartered on what is now Monticello. The camp closes on 15 August 1919 and builders turn its ground into houses.
- 1928Bailey forms the Monticello Land Company and opens 125 acres with five to six hundred home sites, laid out with the Kansas City landscape firm Hare & Hare; lots must be 50 to 150 feet wide and built in brick, stone or stucco. The company gives land for a City park, dated 1928 on the City's parks layer.
- 2000The tornado that crosses the west side of the city on its way downtown demolishes many of Monticello's trees, the realtors' profile says, and developers begin clearing lots to build new houses.
- 2007The Fort Worth Weekly reports on teardowns in Monticello; TCU's map of building ages later shows 1920s houses beside houses built in the previous five years.
- 2010The census counts 1,998 residents on the blocks inside today's association line.
- 2020The census counts 2,054 residents and 1,084 homes; owners live in 725 of the 1,001 occupied homes.
- 2026On 5 March ground is broken on Westside Village, a $1.7 billion, 37-acre development at the northeast corner of University Drive and White Settlement Road, east of the neighborhood; its first phase, 308 apartments and a 100,000-square-foot office building, is due in 2028.
A 1928 park inside the line, and the big City parks a short drive off
Monticello Park, 5.3 acres on the City's layer and dated 1928, is the one public park inside the line, and the association holds its fall gathering there on 11 October 2026. North past Crestwood, Rockwood Park and the City's Rockwood golf course lie along the West Fork; south across West Seventh, the Fort Worth Botanic Garden and Trinity Park on the Clear Fork, where Mayfest runs from 29 April to 2 May 2027.
What the map does not settle: the park's name. The realtors' profile calls the park the Monticello Land Company gave the City Harmon Park; the City's layer calls it Monticello Park.
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 straight lines from the population-weighted center of the 2020 census blocks inside the line, multiplied by a road factor of 1.32, with a tiered speed model for the drive: honest ranges, not routed times.
Every gym within reach
The nearest City community center is Thomas Place, south of Camp Bowie Boulevard, the nearest YMCA the Amon G. Carter Jr. Downtown YMCA, and the nearest City pool Marine Park.
- Thomas Place Community Center: about 2.2 km
- Amon G. Carter Jr. Downtown YMCA: about 4.5 km
- Marine Park Pool: about 4.5 km, summer only
| Facility | What it is | Drive |
|---|---|---|
| Thomas Place Community Center open | The nearest of the City's community centers on its layer, 1.7 km in a straight line, south of Camp Bowie Boulevard. | 5–7 min |
| Amon G. Carter, Jr. Downtown YMCA open | The nearest YMCA of Metropolitan Fort Worth branch, at 512 Lamar Street downtown. | 7–11 min |
| Marine Park Pool open | The City's public pool at 303 N.W. 20th Street on the North Side; the 2026 season ran from 9 June to 8 August, with Saturdays to 5 September. | 6–10 min |
| Monticello Park open | The free option inside the line: the 5.3-acre City park. | 2–4 min |
The free option is Monticello Park, inside the line.
One district, and a finder that answers one address at a time
Every block is in the Fort Worth Independent School District. For 2026-27 its School Finder zones the reference point to North Hi Mount Elementary on West Seventh Street, rated C (72) for 2026, W. C. Stripling Middle School on Clover Lane, C (79), and Arlington Heights High School on West Freeway, rated B (83) for 2026 after C (76) for 2025.
| School | Board | Note |
|---|---|---|
| North Hi Mount Elementary School | Fort Worth Independent School District | 3801 West Seventh Street, just south of the line, prekindergarten to grade 5. Fort Worth ISD's School Finder returns it for the reference point for 2026-27. The district publishes no zone map, so this guide could not count how many Monticello blocks share the assignment, and houses near the edge may be zoned elsewhere. The Texas Education Agency rated it C, 72, for 2026 and B, 80, for 2025. |
| W. C. Stripling Middle School | Fort Worth Independent School District | 2100 Clover Lane, grades 6 to 8 on both the finder and TEA's list, returned for the reference point for 2026-27. Rated C, 79, for 2026 and for 2025. |
| Arlington Heights High School | Fort Worth Independent School District | 4501 West Freeway, grades 9 to 12, returned for the reference point for 2026-27. Rated B, 83, for 2026 and C, 76, for 2025. Run your own address through the finder: the assignment given here is for one point, not the whole neighborhood. |
Those are the schools for one point, not a zone. Fort Worth ISD publishes no attendance map, so this guide could not count which blocks share them. Enter the exact address in the district's finder before you rely on any of the three.
Month by month, what living here looks like
Not a highlights reel: the actual annual rhythm, including the dates residents have to remember.
- The Tarrant Appraisal District values every property as of 1 January; last year's bill is due by 31 January
- The Stock Show and Rodeo opens at the Will Rogers Memorial Center, about 1.7 km south, on 15 January 2027
- Highs near 14 °C and lows near 2 °C at Fort Worth Meacham, with about 11 nights at or below freezing on the 1991 to 2020 normal
- Penalty and interest start on unpaid property tax bills on 1 February
- The Stock Show runs to 6 February 2027
- Highs near 16 °C, 61 mm of rain and about seven freezing nights on the normal
- Highs near 20 °C and lows near 8 °C, with 80 mm of rain on the normal
- Hail season is starting: hail was the largest cause of paid homeowners losses in Texas in 2024, $4.93 billion, so check the roof and the policy's wind and hail deductible
- The MAIN ST. Fort Worth Arts Festival fills downtown from 15 to 18 April 2027
- Mayfest opens in Trinity Park on 29 April 2027; on 5 May 1995 hail up to 4.5 inches across fell on the festival and some 10,000 people there
- Highs near 24 °C and 78 mm of rain
- 15 May, or 30 days after the appraisal district mails its notice if that is later, is the deadline to protest a value
- 102 mm of rain on the normal, as much as June; the City's storm drain inundation areas inside the line are drawn for a 100-year storm, whatever the month
- About eight days reaching 32 °C (90 °F)
- Highs near 33 °C and lows near 22 °C, with about 22 days reaching 32 °C on the normal
- 102 mm of rain
- Highs near 35 °C, with about 28 days reaching 32 °C and about nine reaching 38 °C (100 °F) on the normal
- 55 mm of rain
- Highs near 36 °C, with about 11 days reaching 38 °C on the normal
- The City's pools close: Marine Park Pool's 2026 daily season ended on 8 August
- Highs near 31 °C, with about 15 days still reaching 32 °C
- 66 mm of rain
- The association's fall gathering is in Monticello Park on 11 October 2026, 2:30 to 4:30 p.m.
- 113 mm of rain, the wettest month on the normal, and highs near 26 °C
- Highs near 19 °C and lows near 7 °C, with about two nights at or below freezing on the normal
- 64 mm of rain
- Highs near 14 °C and lows near 3 °C, with about nine nights at or below freezing on the normal
- 67 mm of rain; the association's annual meeting is on 14 January 2027, at River Crest Country Club
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