Inwood Forest is a community about a 3/4 mile west of historic Acres Homes in northwest Houston, Texas, United States. Land in what is now Inwood Forest was originally Native American hunting grounds. In the 1860s German American farmers settled along the White Oak Bayou. For a 100-year period until 1963, the Fuchs family owned the land that w…Inwood Forest is a community about a 3/4 mile west of historic Acres Homes in northwest Houston, Texas, United States. Land in what is now Inwood Forest was originally Native American hunting grounds. In the 1860s German American farmers settled along the White Oak Bayou. For a 100-year period until 1963, the Fuchs family owned the land that would become Inwood Forest and surrounding subdivisions; during that year a real estate developer bought the land. Many of the original houses in Inwood Forest were developed for oil company executives. Wayne Norden, the president of the Near Northwest Management District, stated in 2011 that Inwood Forest was a different kind of neighborhood in the 1970s than in the 2010s. The City of Houston annexed the Inwood Forest area in 1975, adding 2,125 acres of land to the city limits. The neighborhood began to change after a recession in the late 1980s. Many businesses shut down, and former residents moved to suburbs.
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