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DeCordova Bend Estates was platted in the late 1960s on the east shore of what was about to become Lake Granbury, with development running in parallel to the Brazos River Authority's 1969 impoundment of the lake at the De Cordova Bend Dam. The community and the dam share a name — both come from the river bend at this point on the Brazos — which makes DeCordova Bend one of the few Lake Granbury subdivisions whose history is literally tied to the geological feature that created the lake. The footprint covers roughly 855 acres with 26 miles of internal roadways patrolled by community security. The community is fully gated with two guarded entrances and regular roving patrols, governed and operated through the DeCordova Bend Country Club, with monthly HOA dues running approximately $167. That dues figure covers the common-area infrastructure that defines the place: two golf courses, a full-service clubhouse with on-site dining, a marina with private boat ramps for residents, tennis courts, a fitness center, a swimming pool with lake views, playgrounds, and a volunteer fire department. The amenity stack is closer to a private resort than a typical Texas HOA — which is exactly what made it attractive to the first wave of retirees and weekenders from Fort Worth and Dallas in the early 1970s. One geographic note that confuses out-of-state heirs: DeCordova is also separately incorporated as a small city in Hood County, and the city boundary overlaps part of the same geographic area as DeCordova Bend Estates. The estates are in ZIP 76049 on the east side of Lake Granbury, roughly 45 minutes from downtown Fort Worth via US-377. For mail, tax assessment, and probate filing, addresses route through Granbury and Hood County — the Hood County Clerk's office at 1200 W. Pearl Street in Granbury is where any probate matter on a DeCordova Bend home is filed regardless of the city-of-DeCordova designation. Because development began in the late 1960s, DeCordova Bend's housing stock pre-dates Pecan Plantation's 1971 golf course and is genuinely 50-plus years old in many cases. That makes it, structurally, the largest inherited-estate pipeline of any named Lake Granbury subdivision — the original buyer cohort from the first lots is now in the 80-plus age bracket, and the calls we take here are almost entirely about estates, aging-in-place downsizes, and out-of-state heirs trying to wind up a parent's lake house without flying in to manage a renovation.