Biohazard and Crime Scene Remediation in Westlake, TX

Westlake is a small town straddling the Tarrant-Denton county line in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, sitting on State Highway 114 about nineteen miles north-northeast of Fort Worth.

The Westlake area was originally settled in 1847 by Charles and Matilda Medlin, who arrived with about twenty other families.

In the mid-twentieth century the land was known as Circle T Ranch, a 2,000-acre ranch founded by Dallas attorney and oilman J. Glenn Turner.

Ranchers and homeowners incorporated the town in 1956 as Westlake, choosing the name because a town called Southlake already existed nearby.

Westlake stayed tiny for decades — just 207 residents in 2000 — before booming to 992 in 2010 and 1,623 in the 2020 census.

Westlake is one of the wealthiest small towns in Texas: Census survey estimates for 2024 put its median household income above $200,000 and its median home value above $1,000,000.

In the late 1990s Westlake nearly ceased to exist when its Board of Aldermen voted to disannex the Circle T Ranch lands being developed by Ross Perot Jr., effectively dissolving the town — a fight reversed in 1998 and later featured on the radio program This American Life.

Westlake is home to Westlake Academy, a K-12 public charter school opened in 2003 that is the only municipally owned and operated charter school in Texas, with the town council serving as its board of trustees.

Westlake Academy is an International Baccalaureate World School and was the first school in Texas authorized to offer all three IB programs — Primary Years, Middle Years, and Diploma — on a single campus.