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Blue Mound, Texas

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Fort Worth census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76131. The Survey maps it on the Haltom City quadrangle. 2,393 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 673 feet above sea level.

Blue Mound within Tarrant County

Population over time

2 figures

Blue Mound fell from 2,394 to 2,393 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20102,394
20202,393-1 (-0%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 18 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

277 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 277 fires within 5 miles of Blue Mound between 2006 and 2020, burning about 315 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined241
Power generation/transmission/distribution10
Equipment and vehicle use9
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Recreation and ceremony3
Smoking3
Debris and open burning3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Arson/incendiarism1
Natural1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceSIDE SADDLE
9 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWINDY RYON
6 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCOLD SPRINGS
6 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceNE 23RD
6 September 2014Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceSHERMAN
30 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceNORTH WEST LOOP 820
3 September 2014Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceDEEN
26 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceNW 820

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tarrant County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Blue Mound: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
General Portland Inc Ft Worth PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
General Portland Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Tarrant County

Storms near this place

28 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Blue Mound in 28 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 17 hail, 5 flash flood, 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 lightning. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2021HailBlue Mound$20,000,000Hail two inches in diameter was reported a few miles north of Saginaw.
April 2021HailBlue Mound$18,000,000Golf ball size hail was reported near Bailey Boswell Road and Business 287.
April 2021HailBlue Mound$18,000,000Golf ball size hail was reported near Harmon Road and Blue Mound Road.
April 2021HailBlue Mound$18,000,000Two inch hail was reported by an NWS Employee. Numerous homes and vehicles were damaged.
August 2021LightningBlue Mound$10,000Broadcast media reported a house fire that was caused by lightning at the 8300 block of Horse Whisper Lane in Fort Worth, TX.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindBlue Mound$10,000The wood frame of a house under construction was completely knocked down in thunderstorm winds in the Bar C Ranch neighborhood near Saginaw.
June 2014Flash FloodBlue Mound$5,000Heavy rainfall caused road closures in the 9500 block of Saginaw Blvd.
June 2009Flash FloodBlue Mound$5,000Training echoes for several hours dropped several inches of rain that caused Big Fossil Creek to flow out of its banks on the east side of Saginaw. Some lanes of FM 156/Blue Mound Road at East Bailey-Boswell Road were flooded and barricaded. In some locations, the water was about a foot deep.
July 1998Thunderstorm WindBlue Mound$5,000Thunderstorm winds peeled off the roof from a building.
March 2016Thunderstorm WindBlue Mound$1,000A public report indicated that damage occurred to the siding of a service station on Blue Mound Road.
April 2021LightningBlue Mound$500Lightning struck a water heater gas line connected to a house, causing a small fire that the homeowner extinguished.
March 2025HailBlue Mound-Reported via mPing.
March 2025HailBlue Mound-NWS employee 3 miles north of Saginaw reported hail mostly between 0.5 to 0.75 inches in diameter, but a few 1 inch diameter hail mixed in.
September 2022HailBlue Mound-A public report indicated quarter sized hail near Blue Mound, TX.
September 2022HailBlue Mound-A public report indicated quarter sized hail about 1.35 miles east-northeast of Blue Mound, TX.
September 2022HailBlue Mound-A public report indicated quarter sized hail on the north side of Saginaw, TX.
September 2022HailBlue Mound-A public report indicated half-dollar sized hail about one mile northeast of Blue Mound, TX.
April 2021HailBlue Mound-A report of ping pong ball size hail was received via social media near the intersection of U.S. 287 and Harmon Road.
June 2017Flash FloodBlue Mound-Fort Worth PD reported that Harmon Road at the intersection of Presidio Vista Dr was flooded.
May 2015Flash FloodBlue Mound-Broadcast media reported street flooding in north Fort Worth along Interstate 35 from Alliance to Hwy 183.
June 2000Flash FloodBlue Mound-Water covered the road at Blue Mound and Interstate 820.
May 1995HailBlue Mound-A tractor-semitrailer was overturned by high winds at Loop 820 and Rufe Snow.
April 1994HailBlue Mound-Street flooding was reported in Azle.
March 2021HailBlue Mound-no account filed
June 2001HailBlue Mound-no account filed
March 2000HailBlue Mound-no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindBlue Mound-no account filed
June 1998HailBlue Mound-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Tarrant County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Saginaw1.3 miles18
Melody Hills2.4 miles18
Lake Crest Estates4.0 miles17
Watauga4.5 miles18
Sansom Park4.9 miles17
Haltom City5.4 miles18
North Richland Hills6.0 miles20
Eagle Mountain6.1 miles16

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on Blue MoundAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q969870The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1330911. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.