WSISD Brewers
Own school district · ~6,700 students
City · Tarrant County
White Settlement
Population ~18,000 · white-settlement-isd
☕ White Settlement brief Mon, Jun 1
NAS Fort Worth JRB (former Carswell)
Base proximity shaped 20th-c growth
Name has historical context
Origin as white settler outpost in mid-19th-c Tonkawa + Comanche region
Local News
White Settlement headlines
What's happening in White Settlement right now
Civic
Population around 18,000 west of Fort Worth
White Settlement recorded 17,851 residents in the 2020 U.S. Census, an enclave city immediately west of Fort Worth between the Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base and Lake Worth. Source: U.S. Census; City of White Settlement.
Updated 2026
Employer
NAS Fort Worth JRB anchors the local economy
Naval Air Station Fort Worth Joint Reserve Base, the former Carswell Air Force Base, borders White Settlement and is one of the largest single employers in west Tarrant County. Source: NAS Fort Worth JRB.
Ongoing
Heritage
2019 church shooting brought national attention
A December 29, 2019 shooting at West Freeway Church of Christ was stopped by a parishioner who was a member of the church's volunteer security team; the incident drew sustained national coverage and policy discussion. Source: ABC News; Texas Tribune.
December 2019
Council
Council meets second and fourth Tuesdays
The White Settlement City Council meets the second and fourth Tuesdays at 7 p.m. at City Hall, 214 Meadow Park Drive. Source: City of White Settlement.
Ongoing
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
White Settlement's places, people, and traditions
Landmark
NAS Fort Worth Joint Reserve Base
The base, originally Carswell Air Force Base, hosts Navy, Marine, Air Force Reserve, and Air National Guard units and shares the runway with Lockheed Martin's Fort Worth F-35 plant immediately to the south. Source: NAS Fort Worth JRB.
Year-round
Park
Veteran's Park and the senior center
Veteran's Park near City Hall anchors community-event programming and sits alongside the White Settlement Senior Center. Source: City of White Settlement.
Year-round
Heritage
White Settlement Historical Museum
The city's historical museum on White Settlement Road preserves frontier-era and aviation-base history including artifacts from the Republic of Texas settlement era and the Carswell AFB years. Source: White Settlement Historical Society.
Year-round
Park
Splash Dayz and Central Park
Central Park and the city's seasonal aquatic facilities anchor summer recreation for residents. Source: City of White Settlement Parks.
Seasonal
Known for
- Lockheed Martin / Air Force Plant 4 (F-35)
- Naval Air Station JRB Fort Worth adjacency
- Splash Dayz waterpark
- White Settlement Historical Museum
The Story of White Settlement
White Settlement has one of the most literal — and most debated — names in Texas. In the 1840s and 1850s, when several Native American villages and only a handful of pioneer homesteads dotted the land west of Fort Worth, outsiders simply called the scattered farms 'the white settlement.'
An organized community grew there in the late 1850s around the homesteads of three brothers from Tennessee — Elijah, David and Joseph Farmer — and the trading post became a place where settlers and comparatively peaceful local tribes did business.
The name endured as the area developed into a town on the western edge of Fort Worth, just off what is now Interstate 820.
Today White Settlement is a tight-knit working community beside Naval Air Station Fort Worth Joint Reserve Base, its historic name the subject of periodic but so-far-unsuccessful efforts to change it.
Sources: Texas State Historical Association, Handbook of Texas; White Settlement Historical Museum.
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28
Birdville ISD Board of Trustees
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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
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8
Carroll ISD Board of Trustees
5:30pm · agenda online
🎈 Kids Trading Post · White Settlement 2 activities →
Storytime, classes, camps, leagues, and open-play in White Settlement, sourced from libraries and partner orgs. Updated nightly · no manual data entry.
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Sports
White Settlement Sports (White Settlement ISD)
School-district athletics + city rec
ISD Athletics
White Settlement ISD — Brewers
White Settlement students participate in White Settlement ISD athletics. UIL classification varies by HS enrollment.
Source: White Settlement ISD
Community Rec
White Settlement parks + community programs
City Parks & Rec coordinates youth + adult community recreation programs scaled to White Settlement's pop.
Source: City of White Settlement
Cross-District
Friday-night football in the surrounding district
For HS football fans, the closest district games are in White Settlement ISD stadiums — typically a short drive within the Mid-Cities or NE/NW Tarrant corridor.
Source: White Settlement 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 White Settlement
Kids, library, sports, fitness, classes, camps, open play — sourced from libraries, parks, and partner orgs across White Settlement.
story-time
White Settlement Library Storytime
Weekly
White Settlement Public Library · 8215 White Settlement Rd, White Settlement
event
White Settlement Historical Museum Family Visits
Open hours
White Settlement Historical Museum · 8320 Hanon Dr, White Settlement
Civic & Government
Civic & Government
White Settlement city hall, schools, and county connection
Government
Council-manager government
White Settlement operates under a council-manager form with a mayor and council members. The city manager runs day-to-day operations from City Hall. Source: City of White Settlement.
Mayor
Mayor presides over at-large council
The White Settlement mayor is elected citywide and presides over the council that sets policy and appoints the city manager. Source: City of White Settlement.
Schools
White Settlement ISD serves the city
White Settlement ISD, with Brewer High School as its flagship campus, serves the city plus portions of west Fort Worth. Source: White Settlement ISD.
County
City sits in Tarrant County (judge Tim O'Hare)
White Settlement is fully within Tarrant County, governed at the county level by County Judge Tim O'Hare. Source: Tarrant County.
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By the Numbers
By the Numbers
Pop
~18,000 residents
Among mid-sized Tarrant cities. Pop pressed against FW boundaries to the east + south; NAS JRB to the north.
Census · Source: Wikipedia
Schools
White Settlement ISD ~6,700 students
Own school district — Brewers mascot. Distinct from FWISD coverage of surrounding FW neighborhoods.
Recent year · Source: WSISD
Founded
Settlement dates to mid-19th century
Per TSHA — community took its name from being a white settler outpost in an area surrounded by Tonkawa + Comanche communities in the 1840s-50s.
Historical · Source: TSHA
Population
18,000
Type
city
School District
white-settlement-isd
School ISDs in Tarrant County
Tarrant County ISDs by enrollment + TEA 2024-25 accountability rating.
| ISD | Enrollment | Rating | Mascot |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fort Worth ISD | 70,184 | C | Panthers |
| Arlington ISD | 56,000 | C | Various |
| Lewisville ISD | 50,000 | B | Various |
| Mansfield ISD | 35,000 | B | Tigers |
| Keller ISD | 34,078 | B | Indians |
| Northwest ISD | 32,000 | B | Texans |
| Birdville ISD | 22,637 | C | Hawks |
| Eagle Mountain-Saginaw ISD | 22,000 | B | Eagles |
| Hurst-Euless-Bedford ISD (HEB) | 22,000 | B | Trojans |
| Crowley ISD | 16,000 | C | Eagles |
| Grapevine-Colleyville ISD | 12,520 | B | Mustangs |
| Burleson ISD | 12,000 | B | Elks |
| Carroll ISD | 8,300 | A | Dragons |
| White Settlement ISD | 6,700 | C | Brewers |
| Azle ISD | 6,600 | C | Hornets |
| Everman ISD | 5,500 | C | Bulldogs |
| Castleberry ISD | 4,000 | B | Lions |
| Kennedale ISD | 3,400 | C | Wildcats |
| Lake Worth ISD | 2,700 | D | Bullfrogs |
Updated 2026-05-27
Ask the Desk
Questions about White Settlement
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 White Settlement?
White Settlement ISD primarily serves the city. The district enrolls approximately 6,700 students and earned a C on TEA 2024 accountability (2024-25 pending). The mascot is the Brewers (Brewer High School). White Settlement (~18,000 residen…
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History
Founded 1841
From a frontier Anglo settlement to a Cold War aviation town
White Settlement is one of the oldest continuously named places in Tarrant County, dating to 1841 when Anglo families established farms along Farmer's Branch west of present-day Fort Worth — the name reportedly used by neighboring Native American communities to distinguish the white settlers' encampment from their own villages. The community grew slowly through the 19th century as a small farming district. The arrival of the Army Air Forces' Fort Worth Army Airfield in 1942 — later renamed Carswell Air Force Base in 1948 and converted to Naval Air Station Fort Worth Joint Reserve Base in 1994 — transformed the area and drove the city's incorporation on April 26, 1941, just months before Pearl Harbor. Population leapt from a few hundred in 1940 past 7,000 by 1960 and past 16,000 by 2000. Modern White Settlement remains anchored by the NAS Fort Worth JRB, White Settlement ISD's Brewer High School, and proximity to Lockheed Martin's F-35 production facility to the south. Sources: TSHA; City of White Settlement; Wikipedia.
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