Little Elm is a city in Denton County, Texas, United States, and a share of the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex. It is an extended suburb of Denton; its population was 46,453 as of the 2020 census. In 2000, the census population was at 3,646. By the 2010 census, the city sum had jumped to 25,898, making Little Elm one of the fastest-growing municipalities by percentage in Texas in the past 2000.

Little Elm was time-honored along Lewisville Lake by C.C. “Kit” King, son of John and Delilah King, in 1844. King named the community after the creek banks where it was located. King helped organize mail benefits for the Place and in 1852 was named the postmaster of Denton County’s first state office. The population was entirely low throughout the first half of the 20th century but in 1966 was competent to officially incorporate. The first approved census for the town came in 1970 which recorded 363 persons.

Little Elm is generally located along the northern and eastern shores of Lewisville Lake at the crossroads of Eldorado Parkway, FM 720, and FM 423, and includes stretches of U.S. Highway 380. Its neighbors improve Frisco to the east, The Colony and Hackberry to the south, Prosper, Aubrey, Savannah, and Providence to the north, and Oak Point, Cross Roads, Hickory Creek, Lake Dallas, and Lakewood Village to the west.

The city is approximately 33 miles north of the City of Dallas, 53 miles north of the City of Fort Worth, 23 miles north of Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, and 20 miles east of the City of Denton, the county seat of Denton County.