Lake Worth reservoir at doorstep
FW-built water-supply lake — fishing, boating, shoreline parks
City · Tarrant County
Sansom Park
Population ~5,152 · castleberry-isd
☕ Sansom Park brief Mon, Jun 1
Castleberry ISD
Shared with River Oaks · ~4,000 students total
Jacksboro Hwy corridor
SH 199 + Roberts Cut-Off Rd to FW SE + Azle NW
Local News
Sansom Park headlines
What's happening in Sansom Park right now
🏛️ Civic
Council-manager city on Jacksboro Highway
Sansom Park operates as a general-law city governed by a mayor and five aldermen, with municipal offices on Roberts Cut-Off Road. The 'Village' was dropped from the city's legal name in 2000. Source: City of Sansom Park.
Ongoing · Source: sansompark.org
🏛️ History
Originally called Broad View Acres
Between 1910 and 1920, families left Fort Worth, River Oaks and Saginaw for cheaper land here, calling the area Broad View Acres before the community took the Sansom name from the ranch on which it sat. The village was officially recognized by Tarrant County Judge Gus Brown on March 24, 1949. Source: TSHA Handbook of Texas; City of Sansom Park.
Ongoing · Source: tshaonline.org
From across Tarrant County
🗳️ Election
Contested mayor races in nine Tarrant cities on May 2 ballot
The May 2, 2026 ballot featured contested races for mayor in nine Tarrant cities: Arlington, Euless, Keller, Kennedale, North Richland Hills, Pelican Bay, Sansom Park, Westlake, and Westover Hills. The slate also included numerous city council positions, school board trustee seats, and other municipal offices across the county. Source: NBC 5 DFW / Tarrant County Elections.
🗳️ Politics
Taylor Rehmet (D) wins Texas State Senate District 9 special election
In Tarrant County's state Senate District 9 special election held November 4, 2025, Democrat Taylor Rehmet finished as the top vote-getter, ahead by roughly 14,000 votes and a margin of nearly 15%. Rehmet replaces Republican Kelly Hancock, who left the seat in 2025 to become acting state comptroller. Rehmet completes the remainder of Hancock's term. Source: NBC 5 DFW.
Around Town
Around Town
Sansom Park's places, people, and traditions
Park
Marion Sansom Park
A 134-acre Fort Worth park on a high bluff above Lake Worth named for cattle baron Marion Sansom Sr., who began buying land here in 1904. Mountain-bike trails wind along the limestone cliffs and offer one of the best Trinity River sunset views in Tarrant County.
Year-round
Heritage
The Sansom ranch lands
Marion Sansom Sr. assembled roughly 7,000 acres between Lake Worth and Marine Creek in the early 1900s. Sansom Park the city, Marion Sansom Park and Buck Sansom Park are all named for him or his sons.
Year-round
Landmark
Jacksboro Highway (TX-199)
One of the oldest routes out of Fort Worth, the highway was built in the 1930s as a connector to Jacksboro and brought the businesses and residents that built Sansom Park. Its mid-century motels and roadhouses earned the corridor a notorious 1950s reputation.
Year-round
Event
Sansom Park Founders' Day
The city celebrates its 1949 incorporation each year with a community gathering at city hall featuring food, music and historical displays from the Sansom family era.
Annual
Known for
- Marion Sansom Park on Lake Worth
- Jacksboro Hwy / Hwy 199 corridor
- Castleberry ISD
- Rolling Hills overlooking Lake Worth
The Story of Sansom Park
Sansom Park began as Broad View Acres, a patch of affordable land just west of Fort Worth where, between about 1910 and 1920, families migrated out from Fort Worth, River Oaks and Saginaw seeking a quieter, lower-tax rural life. The Rosen Heights Land Company subdivided the area in the 1920s.
The community took the name Sansom — honoring prominent local figure Marion Sansom — from the two nearby Fort Worth parks (Marion Sansom and Buck Sansom) that flank the area along Jacksboro Highway.
Sansom Park became an independent village on March 24, 1949, with about three thousand residents, and was renamed the City of Sansom Park in 2000.
Today it remains a small, close-knit city wedged between Fort Worth, the Jacksboro Highway and the bluffs above the West Fork of the Trinity.
Sources: Texas State Historical Association, Handbook of Texas; City of Sansom Park.
🗓️ Coming this week Full calendar →
TUE
28
Birdville ISD Board of Trustees
6:30pm · agenda online
TUE
2
Tarrant County Commissioners Court
10am · agenda online
TUE
2
Fort Worth City Council
7pm · agenda online
TUE
2
Arlington City Council
6:30pm · agenda online
MON
8
Northwest ISD Board of Trustees
6:30pm · agenda online
MON
8
Keller ISD Board of Trustees
6:30pm · agenda online
MON
8
Carroll ISD Board of Trustees
5:30pm · agenda online
Sports
Sansom Park Sports (Castleberry ISD)
School-district athletics + city rec
ISD Athletics
Castleberry ISD — Lions
Sansom Park students participate in Castleberry ISD athletics. UIL classification varies by HS enrollment.
Source: Castleberry ISD
Community Rec
Sansom Park parks + community programs
City Parks & Rec coordinates youth + adult community recreation programs scaled to Sansom Park's pop.
Source: City of Sansom Park
Cross-District
Friday-night football in the surrounding district
For HS football fans, the closest district games are in Castleberry ISD stadiums — typically a short drive within the Mid-Cities or NE/NW Tarrant corridor.
Source: Castleberry ISD
⭐ Game of the week
Carroll Dragons — district football (anchor program)
🏈 District football ·
Tarrant County's anchor programs — Carroll (8 state titles), Keller (top-of-district 5A), Mansfield (B-rated district), Arlington Martin (AISD flagship), Fossil Ridge (KISD power program) — get priority weekly coverage from the news radar. Carroll Dragons headline the off-season anchor framing; weekly schedule populates from MaxPreps DFW + each ISD's athletics site.
📜 On this day in Tarrant County sports
1988
🏈 Carroll (Southlake) Dragons claim 1st state football championship — beginning of the dynasty that would produce 8 UIL state titles. Under coach Bob Ledbetter.
1993
🏈 Carroll Dragons capture their 3rd state football title (1988, 1992, 1993 = three-in-a-row 3A run under Coach Ledbetter; QB Kris Brown led the '93 squad past Cuero).
2011
🏈 Carroll Dragons win their 8th and most recent UIL state football title — capping the program's run as Tarrant County's most successful HS football dynasty.
2018
🥎 Mansfield Tigers softball reaches UIL state semifinals — anchor moment for MISD's growing softball program under HC Gregory George's broader program leadership.
2026
🏃 Keller ISD sends 11 athletes to UIL State Track & Field — multiple medal-stand finishes per district release.
📻 Radio guide
Southlake Carroll Dragons football
KKGM 1630 AM (Fort Worth; news/sports) — exclusive radio home of Carroll football
Dragon Sports Network
Aledo Bearcats football (Tarrant-area marquee program)
KTFW-FM 92.1 'Hank FM' (LKCM Radio Group; country) — flagship for Aledo broadcasts
Aledo Sports Network
Arlington ISD football (Martin · Lamar · Bowie)
NFHS Network (streaming platform) — official AISD broadcast partner
NFHS Network
Mansfield Tigers football
NFHS Network (streaming platform) — Mansfield ISD live broadcasts
NFHS Network
Keller / Fossil Ridge (Keller ISD) football
NFHS Network (streaming platform) — Keller ISD live broadcasts
NFHS Network
Fort Worth-area HS football game of the week
KTCU-FM 88.7 'The Choice' (TCU student station, Fort Worth)
KTCU 88.7
🏆 UIL playoff bracket
No active Tarrant County UIL playoff bracket on the desk. Populates when a Tarrant County team is in a UIL playoff round (football, basketball, baseball/softball, volleyball). Source: UIL playoff records.
Activities
Things to do in Sansom Park
Kids, library, sports, fitness, classes, camps, open play — sourced from libraries, parks, and partner orgs across Sansom Park.
No activities currently on the desk for Sansom Park. New programs are added when partner orgs publish a public schedule. See this weekend across Tarrant County or tip the desk on a missing program.
Civic & Government
Civic & Government
Sansom Park city hall, schools, and county connection
Government
Type A general-law city
Sansom Park has a mayor and five aldermen elected at large. The city was incorporated as Sansom Park Village on March 24, 1949, and renamed the City of Sansom Park in 2000.
Schools
Served by Castleberry ISD
Most Sansom Park students attend schools in Castleberry ISD, which also serves River Oaks and parts of west Fort Worth.
County
Tarrant County (judge Tim O'Hare)
Sansom Park sits in Tarrant County. Commissioners Court meets at 100 E. Weatherford St., Fort Worth. Tarrant County Judge Tim O'Hare; sheriff Bill Waybourn.
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By the Numbers
By the Numbers
Pop
~5,152 residents — among Tarrant's smaller cities
Among smaller incorporated Tarrant cities. Compact size + built-out footprint mean demographic + economic profile is closely tied to west + NW FW around it.
Recent Census · Source: Wikipedia
Schools
Shares Castleberry ISD — ~4,000 students total
Sansom Park + River Oaks together make up bulk of Castleberry ISD enrollment. Sharing district reinforces practical connection between two cities even though governed as separate municipalities.
Recent · Source: Castleberry ISD
Location
~7 mi NW of downtown FW
Close enough that residents have easy access to FW employment, medical, cultural centers while still living inside separate municipality with own elected officials + police force.
Ongoing · Source: Wikipedia
Population
5,152
Type
city
School District
castleberry-isd
Ask the Desk
Questions about Sansom Park
What are Tarrant County's 2025 property tax rates?
Tarrant County (general portion): ~$0.19 per $100. City of Fort Worth: $1.0624. City of Arlington: $1.0929 (down ~1¢ from 2024). Combined rates from Fort Worth ISD + City of Fort Worth + Tarrant County College bring the total for most Fort …
Who is Tarrant County's County Judge?
Tim O'Hare. He is the 33rd County Judge of Tarrant County since the county's founding in 1849, took office January 1, 2023, and his current term runs through January 1, 2027. He is running for re-election November 3, 2026, and has said the …
Who is Tarrant County's Sheriff?
Bill E. Waybourn. Source: Tarrant County elected officials (tarrantcountytx.gov).
Who is the State Senator for Tarrant County's District 9?
Taylor Rehmet (Democrat), who won the November 4, 2025 special election to replace Republican Kelly Hancock — Hancock left to become acting state comptroller. Rehmet won by roughly 14,000 votes (~15% margin) and is completing the remainder …
Which ISD serves Sansom Park?
Castleberry ISD serves Sansom Park, along with neighboring River Oaks and parts of west Fort Worth. Castleberry enrolls approximately 4,000 students and earned a B on TEA 2024 accountability (2024-25 pending). The mascot is the Lions. Sanso…
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History
Founded 1949
From cattle baron's ranch to Jacksboro Highway town
Between roughly 1910 and 1920, pioneer families left Fort Worth, River Oaks and Saginaw for cheaper, quieter land on what they called Broad View Acres. The new community sat on land that cattle baron Marion Sansom Sr. had begun assembling in 1904; Sansom would eventually own about 7,000 acres between Lake Worth and Marine Creek. The 1930s construction of the Jacksboro Highway (TX-199) connected the area to Fort Worth and brought the gas stations, motels and roadhouses that filled in the future city. Residents incorporated as Sansom Park Village on March 24, 1949, with Tarrant County Judge Gus Brown signing the order. The city dropped 'Village' from its name in 2000. Marion Sansom Park, on the bluffs above Lake Worth, preserves the family name in the Fort Worth city park system. Sources: TSHA Handbook of Texas; City of Sansom Park; Wikipedia.
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