Crime Scene and Trauma Cleanup in Flower Mound, TX

Flower Mound takes its name from a 12.5-acre mound in the center of town that rises about 50 feet above the surrounding Blackland Prairie and blooms with Indian paintbrush and other wildflowers; early settlers never plowed it, and local tradition holds it was once a Wichita ceremonial site.

Presbyterian settlers held religious camps in the area during the 1840s and founded the Flower Mound Presbyterian Church in 1854, but the community stayed sparsely populated for more than a century.

Residents voted to incorporate on February 25, 1961, specifically to avoid annexation by the city of Irving, when the town had only a few hundred residents.

In 1970 the federal HUD-backed 'Flower Mound New Town' planned-community project, backed by $18 million in loan guarantees, tried to remake the town, but residents resisted and the project collapsed by the mid-1970s - Texas Monthly even gave it a 'Bum Steer Award' in 1976.

The opening of Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport just four miles south in 1974 ignited explosive growth: Flower Mound went from 1,685 residents in 1970 to 50,702 in 2000, making it the nation's tenth fastest-growing community in the 1990s.

With 75,956 residents at the 2020 census, Flower Mound is the largest municipality in Texas that calls itself a 'town' - and was the only Texas town over 20,000 people in that census.

The 2020 census counted 25,686 households in Flower Mound, and more than 70% of them were married-couple households.

Most of Flower Mound is served by the Lewisville Independent School District, which is also the town's largest employer with more than 1,600 employees.

In 1994 an amateur collector found a fossilized hadrosaur dinosaur in shale near Grapevine Lake in Flower Mound; the new species was named Protohadros byrdi in his honor.

Flower Mound borders Grapevine Lake and has built an extensive public trail network, and journalist Peter Kilborn famously labeled it a 'Reloville' because so many of its affluent residents are corporate relocators - 57% were born in another state or country as of 2006.