Discover Pecan Acres: A Growing Community Near Fort Worth


By: Laurie E. Jasinski

Published: April 27, 2005

Updated: October 2, 2020

Pecan Acres is an unincorporated community located west of U.S. Highway 81 about twenty miles northwest of Fort Worth on the northwestern border of Tarrant County and southeastern border of Wise County. The community began as a residential development near the northeastern shores of Eagle Mountain Reservoir by the mid-1980s. In 1990 the population was 1,587. That figure had increased to 2,289 in 2000.

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The following, adapted from the Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition, is the preferred citation for this entry.

Laurie E. Jasinski, “Pecan Acres, TX,” Handbook of Texas Online, accessed May 19, 2026, https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/pecan-acres-tx.

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April 27, 2005
October 2, 2020

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