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Watauga is a fully built-out residential suburb of about 23,000 people, wedged into the Mid-Cities grid between Keller, Fort Worth, Haltom City, and North Richland Hills — so tightly surrounded by other municipalities that its 4.2 square miles have no room left to annex. That density cuts both ways for someone trying to get rid of a dead car: driveways and small lots mean a non-running vehicle is hard to hide from a code enforcement officer or an HOA, but it also means a tow truck can reach almost any address in Watauga within minutes from a dispatch point in Haltom City or NRH.

Geography of Watauga

Watauga sits in Tarrant County, in the Mid-Cities region between Fort Worth and North Richland Hills, with Keller bordering it to the north and Haltom City to the southwest. Most of the city lies east of US Highway 377 (Denton Highway), though a strip of homes and city offices extends west of that corridor. Rufe Snow Drive and Watauga Road form the commercial spine of the city, anchored by the roughly 72,000-square-foot Watauga Marketplace shopping center at their intersection.

Free towing is included anywhere in Watauga and the surrounding area. You can find more about local services on the City of Watauga's official website.

History of Watauga

The name Watauga comes from the Cherokee word for 'village of many springs,' carried west by Tennessee settlers who named the community after the pre-Revolutionary War Watauga Association settlement near the Sycamore Shoals of the Watauga River in what's now Elizabethton, Tennessee. Settlers from Tennessee — including the Walker, Evins, and Carlton families — began arriving around 1843, drawn by the natural springs. The Texas and Pacific Railway reached the settlement in 1877, using it as a service stop before trains continued on to Fort Worth, and Watauga got its own railroad station and post office in 1883. The city didn't formally incorporate until October 11, 1958, after a petition was filed and approved that September.

Culture of Watauga

Today Watauga is almost entirely residential, with local commerce concentrated along Rufe Snow Drive and Denton Highway. The city has leaned on sales tax rebates, property tax rebates, and development fee incentives through its Economic Development Corporation to try to pull more retail investment onto Watauga Road, mirroring what's already happened along the US 377 corridor. Because the city is landlocked by its neighbors, most economic activity is redevelopment and infill rather than greenfield growth.

Severe weather is a recurring fact of life in this stretch of the Mid-Cities. In March 2022, a line of storms tied to the same system that produced an EF-1 tornado near Davis Boulevard in North Richland Hills also dropped trees along Western Center Boulevard in Watauga, and separately, storm damage in 2022 tore off a section of roof at Hardeman Elementary School in the city. Watauga's outdoor warning sirens are tied into a shared communication network with Haltom City, Richland Hills, and North Richland Hills, so a tornado warning in any one of those cities triggers sirens across all of them — a reminder of how often hail and wind damage push Mid-Cities residents to finally deal with a car that's been sitting since the last storm.