Hickory Creek, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Lewisville-Flower Mound census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75065. It stands on Carter Branch. The Survey maps it on the Lewisville West quadrangle. 4,718 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 577 feet above sea level.

Hickory Creek within Denton County

Population over time

2 figures

Hickory Creek grew from 3,247 to 4,718 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	3,247
2020	4,718	+1,471 (+45%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 12 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.

1954 USGS Sherman quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Sherman quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Lewisville West quadrangle1:24000, 6 printings
1985 USGS Denton quadrangle1:100000
1991 USGS Denton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

48 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 48 fires within 5 miles of Hickory Creek between 2005 and 2017, burning about 204 acres in total. None 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/undetermined	21
Debris and open burning	16
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Smoking	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Arson/incendiarism	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
23 August 2014	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	9100 TEASLEY
20 August 2009	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	JERNIGAN
16 August 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	SWISHER ROAD FIRE
30 July 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	BRAZOS @ POST OAK
3 July 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	1.5 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	KYLE CT
25 July 2011	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	INDIAN LAKE
11 July 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	N/A
1 July 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	25 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Denton County

Storms near this place

1 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hickory Creek in 1 storm report in 1994: 1 hail. 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
April 1994	Hail	Hickory Creek	-	During the evening hours of the 25th, three supercell thunderstorms moved across the Dallas/Fort Worth metropolitan area producing torrential rain, large hail, high winds, and six tornadoes. Three persons were killed and 55 injured from the tornadoes. The ,hailstorms across Tarrant County did 50-100 million dollars damage, the DeSoto tornado approximately 50 million dollars damage, and the Lancaster tornado approximately 100 million dollars damage. Storm A moved across northern Tarrant and northern Dallas counties between 1800 CST and 1930 CST producing hail up to 2 inches in diameter and torrential rains. Storm B moved eastward into western Tarrant County at approximately 1800 CST. This storm had a history of producing large hail across Stephens, Palo Pinto, and Parker Counties. Once again, this storm produced large hail across the southern half of Fort Worth and Arlington, and a brief tornado touchdown in south Fort Worth 2 miles south of Edgecliff Village at 1842 CST. By 1930 CST, Storm B had moved into southwest Dallas County, producing a brief tornado touchdown at Joe Pool Lake. A second tornado occurred at approximately 1950 CST, doing considerable damage in DeSoto. At 2030 CST, a strong tornado developed rapidly just west of Lancaster, and the storm began turning to the right, moving east-southeast. At 2040 CST, Lancaster was devastated by a tornado producing upper scale F3 and lower scale F4 damage. At 2058 CST, Storm B moved to the Dallas-Ellis county line, and a tornado was reported 2 miles south of Red Oak, in extreme northern Ellis County. Storm C began developing rapidly at 1840 CST, 5 miles southwest of Weatherford, moving to the east. Storm C quickly became severe, producing hail up to golf ball-size on the Parker-Tarrant county line by 1930 CST. Storm C continued to move east across southern Tarrant County producing torrential rain and up to baseball-size hail. At 2030 CST, Storm C, now located in southeast Tarrant County near Mansfield, turned right and began moving southeast toward Midlothian. At 2058 CST, a tornado was reported 4 miles west of Midlothian.

Every storm recorded in Denton 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Harbor Grove	0.8 miles	12
Lake Dallas	1.0 miles	12
Hidden Hill	1.2 miles	12
Highland Village	2.1 miles	12
Corinth	2.5 miles	11
Shady Shores	3.0 miles	11
Camp Dallas	3.1 miles	10
Copper Canyon	3.4 miles	12

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 Hickory Creek	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q978128	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 1380859. 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.