Editing Forest Hill, Texas

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'''Forest Hill''' is a [[suburb]] of [[Fort Worth, Texas|Fort Worth]] in [[Tarrant County, Texas|Tarrant County]], [[Texas]], United States. The population was 13,955 at the 2020 census.<ref name="Census 2020"/>

==History==
Forest Hill began around 1860. The community was called '''Brambleton Station''' and '''Forest Hill Village''' before being named Forest Hill.<ref name="ForestHillHistory">"[http://www.foresthilltx.org/aboutus/history.htm History] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081120202536/http://www.foresthilltx.org/aboutus/history.htm |date=2008-11-20 }}." ''City of Forest Hill''. Retrieved on November 26, 2008.</ref> By 1896 the community had its first schools and was established as a suburb of Fort Worth.<ref name="Handbook">{{Handbook of Texas|id=hef02|name=Forest Hill, Texas (Tarrant County)}}</ref> In 1905 Old Mansfield Road and Forest Hill Drive were the city's two main roads. In 1912 citizens drilled a "crooked hole well," the first private water system in the community.<ref name="ForestHillHistory"/> By 1925 the community had 25 residents and two businesses.<ref name="Handbook"/> Forest Hill gained a new source of water in the early 1940s. By 1944 Trentman Company and the Johnson Campbell Company began building homes. The owners of the private water system sold it to Texas Water Company.

The community incorporated as a village on March 16, 1946.<ref name="ForestHillHistory"/> In the late 1940s the village had around 90 people.<ref name="Handbook"/> In 1949 the village petitioned to be relabeled as a city after reaching 500 citizens; on April 8 of that year the village was relabeled as a city. By 1954 the volunteer fire department, the court, and the corporation court opened.<ref name="ForestHillHistory"/> The city had 1,519 people in the mid-1950s.<ref name="Handbook"/>

The city expanded in the 1960s.<ref name="ForestHillHistory"/> In 1967 the city had 3,800 people; the city grew due to its proximity to Fort Worth.<ref name="Handbook"/> By the early 1970s the city adopted the Forest Hill Home Rule Charter in order to more easily annex territory and to allow for better governance.<ref name="ForestHillHistory"/> The city had 10,250 people in 1976 and 11,482 in 1990.<ref name="Handbook"/> In the 1970s, it elected its first female mayor, Jackie Larson.

==Geography==

According to the [[United States Census Bureau]], the city has a total area of 4.2&nbsp;square miles (11.0&nbsp;km<sup>2</sup>), all land.

==Demographics==
{{US Census population
| 1950 = 1519
| 1960 = 3221
| 1970 = 8236
| 1980 = 11684
| 1990 = 11482
| 2000 = 12949
| 2010 = 12355
| 2020 = 13955
| footnote = U.S. Decennial Census<ref name="DecennialCensus">{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/decennial-census.html|title=Census of Population and Housing|publisher=Census.gov|access-date=June 4, 2015}}</ref>
}}
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
|+'''Forest Hill city, Texas – Racial and ethnic composition'''<br><small>{{nobold|''Note: the US Census treats Hispanic/Latino as an ethnic category. This table excludes Latinos from the racial categories and assigns them to a separate category. Hispanics/Latinos may be of any race.''}}</small>
!Race / Ethnicity <small>(''NH = Non-Hispanic'')</small>
!Pop 2000<ref name=2000CensusP004>{{Cite web|title=P004: Hispanic or Latino, and Not Hispanic or Latino by Race – 2000: DEC Summary File 1 – Forest Hill city, Texas |url=https://data.census.gov/table?g=160XX00US4826544&tid=DECENNIALSF12000.P004|publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]] |access-date= }}</ref>
!Pop 2010<ref name=2010CensusP2>{{Cite web|title=P2: Hispanic or Latino, and Not Hispanic or Latino by Race – 2010: DEC Redistricting Data (PL 94-171) – Forest Hill city, Texas |url=https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?q=p2&g=160XX00US4826544&tid=DECENNIALPL2010.P2|publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]] |access-date= }}</ref>
!{{partial|Pop 2020}}<ref name=2020CensusP2>{{Cite web|title=P2: Hispanic or Latino, and Not Hispanic or Latino by Race – 2020: DEC Redistricting Data (PL 94-171) – Forest Hill city, Texas |url=https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?q=p2&g=160XX00US4826544&tid=DECENNIALPL2020.P2|publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]] |access-date= }}</ref>
!% 2000
!% 2010
!{{partial|% 2020}}
|-
|[[Non-Hispanic or Latino whites|White]] alone (NH)
|2,967
|1,441
|style='background: #ffffe6; |1,216
|22.91%
|11.66%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |8.71%
|-
|[[Non-Hispanic or Latino African Americans|Black or African American]] alone (NH)
|7,355
|5,938
|style='background: #ffffe6; |5,490
|56.80%
|48.06%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |39.34%
|-
|[[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]] or [[Alaska Native]] alone (NH)
|42
|29
|style='background: #ffffe6; |11
|0.32%
|0.23%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |0.08%
|-
|[[Asian Americans|Asian]] alone (NH)
|140
|68
|style='background: #ffffe6; |151
|1.08%
|0.55%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |1.08%
|-
|[[Pacific Islander Americans|Pacific Islander]] alone (NH)
|0
|5
|style='background: #ffffe6; |0
|0.00%
|0.04%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |0.00%
|-
|[[Race and ethnicity in the United States census|Other Race]] alone (NH)
|8
|34
|style='background: #ffffe6; |31
|0.06%
|0.28%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |0.22%
|-
|[[Multiracial Americans|Mixed race or Multiracial]] (NH)
|88
|125
|style='background: #ffffe6; |199
|0.68%
|1.01%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |1.43%
|-
|[[Hispanic and Latino Americans|Hispanic or Latino]] (any race)
|2,349
|4,715
|style='background: #ffffe6; |6,857
|18.14%
|38.16%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |49.14%
|-
|'''Total'''
|'''12,949'''
|'''12,355'''
|style='background: #ffffe6; |'''13,955'''
|'''100.00%'''
|'''100.00%'''
|style='background: #ffffe6; |'''100.00%'''
|}

As of the [[2020 United States census]], there were 13,955 people, 3,754 households, and 2,944 families residing in the city.

==Transportation==
By 1911 the city became a stop on the [[Fort Worth Southern Traction Company]]'s [[interurban|electric urban railway]] from Fort Worth to [[Cleburne, Texas|Cleburne]].<ref name="Handbook"/> The streetcar line operated on an hourly basis in the 1900s.<ref name="ForestHillHistory"/>

== Education ==
Forest Hill is partly in the [[Everman Independent School District]] and partly in the [[Fort Worth Independent School District]].

Two primary schools, Harlean Beal Elementary School and David K. Sellars Elementary School, serve separate areas within the FWISD section of Forest Hill. The FWISD secondary schools that serve the section of Forest Hill, located in Fort Worth, include Glencrest 6th Grade School, Forest Oak Middle School, and [[O. D. Wyatt High School]].<ref>"[http://www.fortworthisd.org/departments/student_records/pdf/indexbook.pdf Street Index Book]." ''[[Fort Worth Independent School District]]''. Retrieved on November 26, 2008.</ref>

In 1896 Forest Hill schools had three teachers, 91 white students, and 15 black students. By 1905 Forest Hill, now having no schools for black students, had two schools, four teachers, and 226 students.<ref name="Handbook"/>

Students living in the Everman Independent School District portion of the city attend Roger E. Souder Elementary School, Dan Powell Intermediate School, Everman Junior High School and Everman High School.

==References==

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==External links==
* [http://www.foresthilltx.org/ City of Forest Hill official website]
* {{Handbook of Texas|id=hef02|name=Forest Hill, Texas (Tarrant County)}}

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[[Category:Cities in Texas]]
[[Category:Cities in Tarrant County, Texas]]
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