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History · Benbrook

Benbrook’s post office opened in 1880

More historic than 17% of U.S. towns · #352 of 642 in Texas. What drives it

Most of Benbrook was built recently: 1% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1983. Below: 2 old photos and papers, maps from 1955 on, and the census since 1950.

1880first post office
0on the National Register
1%homes built before 1940
2old photos & papers
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From Benbrook’s archive · credits on each photo
Quick answers

How Benbrook began

When was Benbrook founded?

1880

The Benbrook post office opened in 1880, the earliest record of the town by name.

First census: 617 in 19502020 census: 24,520146 years

How historic is Benbrook?

C−

More historic than 17% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.

What drives the grade ↓
Founding year: the first Benbrook post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).
History grade

What drives Benbrook’s History grade

On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Benbrook is more historic than 17% of U.S. towns, #352 of 642 in Texas. Its age holds the grade up; its share of homes from before 1940 pulls it down.

C−
HistoryA character grade: shown, never part of Benbrook’s overall grade.
Founding era1880, from the first post office: founded 1850–1899, an older era than 37% of U.S. townsC+Homes built before 19401.4% of homes (±1.3) · typical TX town 1.6% · U.S. 8.4%DNational RegisterNo listings counted · typical TX town 0.0 per 10,000 · U.S. 2.4C
All U.S. towns we grade (21,289)Ahead of 17%
NewerOlder
Texas towns of 2,500+ (642)Ahead of 45%

Few Texas towns list much on the Register (a typical Texas town has 0.0 per 10,000 residents, the U.S. 2.4), so Benbrook’s 0.0 sits below most of its state (34% of Texas towns have fewer) while its 0 listings outnumber those of 23% of U.S. towns.

How sure. Graded on any two of the three inputs instead, the letter would range from D to C. The pre-1940 share (±1.3 points) is firm at this size. The founding year is the first post office, not a stated founding date.

Founding year: the first post office (other dates in Quick answers). Homes: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register: National Park Service, May 2026 list; each listing counted once (boundary changes and added documentation belong to their listing), and a historic district counts its contributing buildings. How TownRatings grades history →

What stands out about Benbrook’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

A history waiting to be writtenOnly 2 old photos are in the public archives. The rest are in attics and albums.
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Start Benbrook’s collection

The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Benbrook’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
00s10s20s30s40s50s60s70s80s90s
1 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
Date a photo1 archive item has no date. Guess the decade.+2Retake an old viewLiberty Bonds - 4th Campaign - Carruthe…: stand where they stood+15Share a family photoSign in to add one+10
The story so far

Benbrook, in brief

Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Benbrook yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.

Benbrook is a town located in the southwestern corner of Tarrant County, Texas, United States, and a suburb of Fort Worth. As of the 2010 United States census, the population was 21,234, reflecting an increase of 1,026 from the 20,208 counted in the 2000 census, which had in turn increased by 644 from the 19,564 counted in the 1990 census. As of the 2020 census, the population grew to 24,520.

Its first post office opened in 1880. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 21,234 to 24,520 (+15%).

Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.

Timeline

Benbrook, 1880 to 1958

Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.

  1. 19th century
  2. 1880Post officeThe Benbrook post office opens
  3. 20th century
  4. 1917In the archiveLiberty Bonds - 4th Campaign - Carruthers field
  5. 1955On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  6. 1958Post officeThe Benbrook post office closes
By decade

Benbrook, decade by decade

One decade in the archive so far: the 1910s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.

1910s1 item
Liberty Bonds - 4th Campaign - Carruthers field1917Liberty Bonds - 4th Campaign - Carruthers field
1920s–1990snothing yet
Nothing in the archives for these yearsWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
Add from your album
Date unknown1 to date
USACE Benbrook Lake and DamDate?USACE Benbrook Lake and Dam
Today2 recent
Water tower in Benbrook, Texas (newer)2014Water tower in Benbrook, Texas (newer)TXMap-doton-Benbrook2004TXMap-doton-Benbrook
On the map

Benbrook on the map, 1955 to 1995

Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Benbrook. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.

Benbrook on the 1955 USGS mapBenbrook on the 1968 USGS mapBenbrook on the 1972 USGS mapBenbrook on the 1981 USGS mapBenbrook on the 1995 USGS map1955Benbrook sheet · 1:24,000

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Benbrook.

Then & now

Stand where they stood

No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as an old one and they appear here side by side.

Liberty Bonds - 4th Campaign - Carruthers field
Retake this viewLiberty Bonds - 4th Campaign - Carruthers field, 1917

Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on Benbrook’s page.

Retake this view · +15
People over time

Benbrook, census by census

05,00010,00015,00020,00025,000196019802000202024,520

Grew from 617 people in 1950 to 24,520 in 2020, more than tenfold.

8 censuses, 1950–2020.

U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Benbrook’s Wikipedia page.

Places that used to be

Lost post offices

Benbrook had its own post office from 1880 to 1958.

Benbrook
1880–1958
18801950today

US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

Stories next door

History across the town line

Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.

Fort Worth103 historic placesA−

Questions about Benbrook’s history

What year was Benbrook founded?

The Benbrook post office opened in 1880, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

How does Benbrook rank for history?

Benbrook is more historic than 17% of U.S. towns, #352 of 642 in Texas. The History grade combines the town’s founding era, the share of homes built before 1940 and its National Register listings. It’s a character grade, so it isn’t part of the overall grade. How it works.

How old are the homes in Benbrook?

1% of Benbrook’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±1.3 points), against a typical 1.6% for a Texas town; the median home was built in 1983.

Memory lane

What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.

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Sources

Where this page comes from

Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

From Wikimedia Commons (4), U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.