Mansfield is a suburban city in the U.S. state of Texas, and is part of the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex area. The city is located mostly in Tarrant county, with small parts in Ellis and Johnson counties. Its location is nearly 30 miles from Dallas and 20 miles from Fort Worth, and is adjacent to Arlington. As of the 2010 census, the population was 56,368, up from 28,031 in 2000. The estimated population in 2020 is 73,550.

The first greeting of European settlers arrived in the rolling Cross Timbers country of north central Texas in the 1840s. Primarily of Scotch-Irish origins, these voyager farmers came for the most allowance from southern states, following the frontier as it shifted west of the Mississippi. They entered an Place where Native Americans had been successful for thousands of years. The Comanche posed a deafening threat to the settlers, and in 1849, the U.S. Army standard Fort Worth to guard the farms along the sparsely populated frontier.

The area southeast of the fort (and of the Trinity River) was with ease protected and presumably fairly competently settled by the upfront 1850s. In one well-documented case, eight combined families migrated to the area in 1853 from Illinois. Three of the four Gibson brothers in this group expected homesteads roughly 4 miles (6 km) northwest of present-day Mansfield. This settlement, which became known as the Gibson Community, included a college and a church building by 1860.

When Ralph Sandiford Mann and Julian Feild arrived on the subject of 1856 and built a grist mill at the crossroads that was to become the center of Mansfield, the beginnings of the community probably existed in the oak groves next-door Walnut Creek (originally called Cedar Bluff Creek). The Walnut Creek Congregation of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church had organized itself in 1854. Members met in each other’s homes, so it is suspected that there was a cluster of houses in the area.