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Benbrook was established about 1857 by settlers from Tennessee and other southern states, and the community was originally called Miranda.

When the Texas and Pacific Railway extended its tracks through the area in 1876, the community was renamed for James M. Benbrook, an Indiana native who had persuaded the railroad to build its line - and a depot - through the site; a post office opened in 1880.

Benbrook stayed remarkably small for a place so close to Fort Worth: the first population figures reported in the mid-1920s counted only about 20 residents.

Benbrook was incorporated as a village in 1947, and in 1949 voters made the sale of beer and liquor illegal in the city.

The city's growth was driven by Benbrook Lake, formed in 1952 when the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers completed Benbrook Dam on the Clear Fork of the Trinity River after construction that began in May 1947.

Benbrook's population grew from 3,300 in 1965 to 20,208 in 2000 and reached 24,520 at the 2020 census.

Benbrook has around 10,062 households, and about 68% of its homes are owner-occupied.

Benbrook is a suburb of Fort Worth in the southwestern corner of Tarrant County, at the junction of Interstate 20 and U.S. Highway 377, about 10 miles southwest of downtown Fort Worth.

Benbrook does not run its own schools - its old district was consolidated into the Fort Worth Independent School District in 1962, and the city is served today by Western Hills High School and by Benbrook Middle-High School, which opened as a middle school in 2011 and added high school grades starting in 2014.

Roughly 5.6% of Benbrook's 12.2 square miles is water, almost all of it the southern reach of Benbrook Lake, whose shores hold parks such as Dutch Branch Park.