Forest Hill, Texas
16 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 76119. The Survey maps it on the Fort Worth quadrangle. 13,955 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 682 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresForest Hill grew from 12,355 to 13,955 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 12,355 | |
| 2020 | 13,955 | +1,600 (+13%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 16 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1894 USGS Fort Worth quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS Dallas quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1955 USGS Fort Worth quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
- 1958 USGS Dallas quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Fort Worth quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1995 USGS Fort Worth quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
507 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 507 fires within 5 miles of Forest Hill between 2005 and 2020, burning about 884 acres in total. None started naturally. 7 were 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/undetermined | 447 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 13 |
| Debris and open burning | 11 |
| Smoking | 8 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 7 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 6 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 5 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 4 |
| Other causes | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | SOUTH FREEWAY |
| 6 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | WILLBARGER |
| 5 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | ROSEDALE |
| 4 September 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | E MORPHY |
| 30 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | JENNINGS |
| 30 September 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | AVE G |
| 3 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | CIRCLE DR |
| 3 September 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | SOUTH FRWY |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
7 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Forest Hill in 7 storm reports between 1993 and 2017: 4 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2010 | Flash Flood | Forest Hill | $50,000 | Several high water rescues were conducted at intersections in south Arlington due to heavy rainfall. |
| April 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Forest Hill | $5,000 | Fences and some trees were blown down. |
| January 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Forest Hill | - | Grand Prairie Municipal Airport recorded a 63 MPH wind gust. |
| April 1994 | Hail | Forest Hill | - | Quarter-size hail was reported in West Arlington at the intersection of Highway 287 and Interstate 20. |
| October 1993 | Hail | Forest Hill | - | Two planes were severely damaged, and two construction trailers were blown over at the Arlington Municipal Airport in southeast Arlington. |
| September 1999 | Hail | Forest Hill | - | no account filed |
| April 1994 | Hail | Forest Hill | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kennedale | 2.9 miles | 16 | |
| Lindberg | 3.0 miles | 16 | |
| Everman | 3.0 miles | 16 | |
| Lytle | 4.0 miles | 16 | |
| Edgecliff Village | 4.0 miles | 16 | |
| Tate Springs | 4.1 miles | 16 | |
| Fort Worth | 4.6 miles | 16 | |
| Belt Junction | 4.9 miles | 16 |
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 Forest Hill | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q26492 | The 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 1336023. 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.
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.





