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Ranked shortlist · 10 of 46 arts and entertainment
Best arts and entertainment in Fort Worth
The 10 most notable arts and entertainment in Fort Worth, in rank order. The order is curation quality — how well attested and how complete each record is — not popularity, and no place on this list paid to be on it.
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1
Fort Worth Water Gardens
1502 Commerce St
185 m from Texas & Pacific Passenger Terminal and Freight Buildings, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.369, percentile 100 of 46
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2
Capp Smith Park
5800 Hightower Dr
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.364, percentile 97.78 of 46
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3
Chisenhall Park
500 W Hidden Creek Pkwy
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.336, percentile 95.56 of 46
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4
Bonded Hearts Quarter Horses
9452 Gregory Rd
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 2.292, percentile 93.33 of 46
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5
Will Rogers Equestrian Center
1501 Rip Johnson Dr
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 2.242, percentile 91.11 of 46
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6
Riverside Arts District
2600-3100 Race St
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 2.242, percentile 88.89 of 46
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7
Magnolia Green
1201 Lipscomb St
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.110, percentile 86.67 of 46
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8
Coliseum Group Sales
121 E Exchange Ave
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.95 · rank score 2.108, percentile 84.44 of 46
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9
Fairmount Community Garden
1510 5th Ave
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.066, percentile 82.22 of 46
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10
Nance Field
808 Schoolhouse Rd
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 2.037, percentile 80 of 46
How this list is made
Every place in this group was scored by the same model, with each term z-normalised inside the group and capped, so a famous chain cannot win by being famous everywhere. The weights, verbatim:
- attestation by independent providers
- +0.35
- record completeness (website, phone, address)
- +0.25
- Overture existence confidence
- +0.20
- Michelin designation (Wikidata, CC0)
- +0.40
- brand fame (Wikidata sitelinks)
- −0.15
- same-name chain collision
- −0.30
Curation quality, not popularity: how well attested and how complete a record is.
No licensable popularity signal; this ranks curation quality, not taste
Independent check: 5,951 places listed in Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0; validation only, never published or scored) were matched to our records by name within 250 m. Across the 5,651 that fall in groups of at least 10, the median matched place sits at percentile 73 and 24.2% are in the top decile, against 10% by chance; five families have enough anchors to report (arts, food and drink, lodging, shopping, sport), while health care (5), lifestyle services (17), travel (26) have too few and are not validated. A match needs both the guide and the catalogue to name the same place, which favours well-attested places — a term this rank itself rewards — so these are lower bounds; Michelin's 528 in-group anchors have a median percentile of 100, but that is partly circular: across the Wikivoyage matches, the 17 that also carry the designation term this rank scores sit at 99.93, against 72.55 for the 5,934 without it.
The catalogue carries no rating, review count, price or opening hours, so this file has none.
Station locations from Wikidata (CC0-1.0). Nearest station, not service: no frequency, timetable or departures.
Nobody paid for placement: no ads, no sponsored results, no ratings for sale.
Data: AllThePlaces (CC0-1.0), BrightQuery (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), DAC (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Foursquare Open Source Places (Apache-2.0), Meta (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Microsoft (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), PinMeTo (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), RenderSEO (CDLA-Permissive-2.0).