White Settlement, Texas

White Settlement is a city in Tarrant County, Texas, United States, and a northwestern suburb of Fort Worth.

[5] The city is bordered by Lockheed Martin and the Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Fort Worth.

[9] While early life was not easy for the settlers with frequent clashes with indigenous populations, White Settlement became a trading outpost.

As the migrating settlers carved out homesteads among the various indigenous tribes, outsiders and Native Americans referred to the area as "the white settlement.

[10] In modern times, the city of White Settlement is the gateway to national defense, bordered by Lockheed Martin and the Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Fort Worth.

As federal properties, the White Settlement Police Department has concurrent jurisdiction for calls for service and patrols at the military base and aircraft plant.

[14][15] The city got its name as it was a lone settlement of white colonists amid several Native American villages in the Fort Worth area in the Texas Republic territory in the 1840s.

The city boasts amenities including a city-owned water park, Splash Days, that operates during the summer months.

The majority of White Settlement residents identify as Protestant Christians; however, there is also a Mormon church as well as a Buddhist temple within the city limits.

Castleberry Baptist Church, a Baptist church in White Settlement, September 2018
Tarrant County map