7 county-level rules, plus city-specific rules for 4 cities in Denton County, Texas.
Verified from official government sources
Unincorporated Denton County has no fence height ordinance. Property owners may build fences of any height on their own land without county approval. HOA deed restrictions in subdivisions typically limit fences to 6 feet in rear yards and 4 feet in front yards.
Tex. Prop. Code Sec. 202.023 (Security Measures - Perimeter Fencing)
Sec. 202.023. SECURITY MEASURES. (b) A property owners' association may not adopt or enforce a restrictive covenant that prevents a property owner from building or installing security measures, including but not limited to a security camera, motion detector, or perimeter fence. (c) This section does not prohibit a property owners' association from: (2) regulating the type of fencing that a prop...
Denton County does not require fence permits in unincorporated areas. Texas counties lack zoning and building code authority for residential fencing. Property owners may build fences without county approval unless they affect county road rights-of-way or floodplains.
Denton County has no good-neighbor fence ordinance. Texas has no state statute requiring shared fence costs between neighbors. Boundary fences and disputes are governed by common law and resolved through civil courts.
Texas Agriculture Code, Sec. 143.001-143.002 (Fences; Gates)
Sec. 143.001. SUFFICIENT FENCE REQUIRED. Except as provided by this chapter for an area in which a local option stock law has been adopted, each gardener or farmer shall make a sufficient fence around cleared land in cultivation that is at least five feet high and will prevent hogs from passing through. Sec. 143.002. GATE. A person may not build, join, or maintain around cleared land in cultiva...
Denton County does not require permits for residential retaining walls in unincorporated areas. Walls affecting county drainage or located in floodplains may need review by Public Works. There is no county height limit for retaining walls.
Texas Health and Safety Code Chapter 757 establishes minimum pool barrier requirements statewide. Residential pools must have a barrier at least 48 inches high with self-closing, self-latching gates. Denton County follows state law in unincorporated areas.
Texas Health and Safety Code, Sec. 757.004 (Gates)
Sec. 757.004. GATES. (a) Except as otherwise provided by Section 757.005, a gate in a fence or wall enclosing a pool yard as required by Section 757.003 must: (1) have a self-closing and self-latching device; (2) have hardware enabling it to be locked, at the option of whoever controls the gate, by a padlock or a built-in lock operated by key, card, or combination; and (3) open outward away fro...
Denton County imposes no general fence requirements in unincorporated areas. There is no mandatory fencing for residential properties. Agricultural operations in this closed-range county must fence in livestock under Texas Agriculture Code Chapter 143.
Texas Agriculture Code, Sec. 143.028 (Fences)
Sec. 143.028. FENCES. (a) A person is not required to fence against animals that are not permitted to run at large. Except as otherwise provided by this section, a fence is sufficient for purposes of this chapter if it is sufficient to keep out ordinary livestock permitted to run at large. (b) In order to be sufficient, a fence must be at least four feet high and comply with the following requi...
Denton County has no ordinance restricting fence materials in unincorporated areas. Property owners may use any fencing material including wood, metal, wire, chain link, pipe, stone, or vinyl. HOAs commonly restrict materials in subdivisions.
4 cities in Denton County have their own fence regulations rules. Each link goes to that city's dedicated page with code citations.
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