Forest Hill is a suburb of Fort Worth in Tarrant County, Texas, United States. The population was 12,355 at the 2010 census.

Forest Hill began re 1860. The community was called Brambleton Station and Forest Hill Village before brute named Forest Hill. By 1896 the community had its first schools and was usual as a suburb of Fort Worth. In 1905 Old Mansfield Road and Forest Hill Drive were the city’s two main roads. In 1912 citizens drilled a “crooked hole well,” the first private water system in the community. By 1925 the community had 25 residents and two businesses. Forest Hill gained a additional source of water in the early 1940s. By 1944 Trentman Company and the Johnson Campbell Company began building homes. The owners of the private water system sold it to Texas Water Company.

The community incorporated as a village on March 16, 1946. In the late 1940s the village had all but 90 people. In 1949 the village petitioned to be relabeled as a city after reaching 500 citizens; on April 8 of that year the village was relabeled as a city. By 1954 the volunteer blaze department, the court, and the corporation court opened. The city had 1,519 people in the mid-1950s.

The city expanded in the 1960s. In 1967 the city had 3,800 people; the city grew due to its proximity to Fort Worth. By the into the future 1970s the city adopted the Forest Hill Home Rule Charter in order to more easily annex territory and to permit for enlarged governance. The city had 10,250 people in 1976 and 11,482 in 1990. In the 1970s, it elected its first female mayor, Jackie Larson.