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Watauga is a city in Tarrant County, Texas, and an inner suburb of Fort Worth in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, with most of its businesses and retail strung along Highway 377.

The first settlers came to the Watauga area of Tarrant County in 1843, and the Texas and Pacific Railway came through present-day Watauga in 1881, spurring a settlement of large farms and ranches.

Watauga took its name from the pre-Revolutionary War Watauga Association settlement in East Tennessee, near the Sycamore Shoals of the Watauga River around present-day Elizabethton.

Watauga received a railroad station and a post office in 1883, but it stayed tiny for decades — the population was only about 65 in the mid-1930s and 1940s, after the railroad station had closed.

Defense plants in the Fort Worth area fueled Watauga's growth past 1,000 residents in the 1960s, and suburbanization pushed it to 7,050 people by 1976 and about 20,000 by 1990.

Watauga had a population of 23,650 in the 2020 census, almost unchanged from 23,497 in 2010, as the nearly built-out city has leveled off.

Watauga has about 7,951 households according to Census QuickFacts, averaging 2.91 persons per household, larger than the national average.

About 78% of Watauga's homes are owner-occupied, and the median value of an owner-occupied home is about $250,500, reflecting its established suburban character.

Watauga is a mostly residential, landlocked Mid-Cities community surrounded by Fort Worth, North Richland Hills, Keller, and Haltom City.