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Cresson is a city at the corners of Hood, Johnson, and Parker counties, at the intersection of U.S. Highway 377 and State Highway 171 about 25 miles southwest of Fort Worth.

The town is traditionally said to be named for John Cresson, captain of a wagon train that camped in the area before the Civil War, who later built several houses and a general store on the future townsite.

Stagecoaches were running through the Cresson area as early as 1856, linking it to Jacksboro, Weatherford, Cleburne, Waco, and Granbury.

The Fort Worth and Rio Grande Railway was built through Cresson in 1887, and the town was at one time served by three different railroad companies.

By 1905 Cresson was a thriving rail stop with two banks, eight general stores, a drugstore, a lumberyard, and two doctors.

The community remained unincorporated for well over a century and did not become a city until 2001.

Cresson's population nearly doubled in a single decade, from 741 at the 2010 census to 1,349 at the 2020 census, and Census Bureau estimates placed it above 2,100 by 2025.

Cresson sprawls across about 11.5 square miles of ranch country, all of it land, giving it a very low population density for a city in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex.