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Lake Worth, Texas

17 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 76135. It lies near Willow Island. The Survey maps it on the Lake Worth quadrangle. 4,711 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 643 feet above sea level.

Lake Worth within Tarrant County

Population over time

2 figures

Lake Worth grew from 4,584 to 4,711 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
20104,584
20204,711+127 (+3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 17 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

229 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 229 fires within 5 miles of Lake Worth between 2005 and 2020, burning about 325 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/undetermined195
Power generation/transmission/distribution11
Equipment and vehicle use7
Debris and open burning6
Smoking5
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Arson/incendiarism1
Natural1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
6 September 2014Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceSHERMAN
27 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceWHITE SETTLEMENT
26 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceNW 820
25 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHODGKINS
25 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceJACKSBORO
24 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceJACKSBORO
23 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceNW 20TH
22 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE IH 820

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tarrant County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Lake Worth: 4 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Silica, Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Lake Side Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Bajemi Corp. PitSilicaProducer
Williams PitSilicaProducer

Every working recorded in Tarrant County

Storms near this place

21 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lake Worth in 21 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 10 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 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
June 2007Flash FloodLake Worth$300,000High water was reported in Lake Worth on Jacksboro Highway from Boat Club Road to Interstate 820. Flooding was also reported at the insection of Alta Vista Road and Golden Triangle north of Fort Worth, and over Denton Highway and Broadway Road in Haltom City. Homes which were flooded recently were flooded again. Cars were submerged up to their windows near Interstate 820 in Haltom City. Fort Worth responded to about 75 reports of high water.
September 2010LightningLake Worth$200,000A lightning strike started a fire at a home in the 3900 block of Estrella Court in northwest Fort Worth.
April 2015Thunderstorm WindLake Worth$15,000Shingles were damaged on many roofs in the Lake Worth area.
April 2011HailLake Worth$10,000Penny to golfball sized hail fell over Lake Worth for 5 minutes.
June 2009LightningLake Worth$10,000A home near Boat Club Road and Caballo Street was struck by lightning and sustained moderate damage. The lightning bolt entered through the roof and emerged through the laundry room. No possessions in the home were lost.
June 2007Flash FloodLake Worth$10,000A high water rescue was required at White Settlement Road and also on Jacksboro Highway near Loop 820.
February 2013Thunderstorm WindLake Worth$8,000A 64 MPH wind gust was reported at Huffines Blvd and 10 Mile Bridge Road near Marine Creek Lake in northwest Fort Worth.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindLake Worth$8,000A COOP Observer measured 75 mph winds on Boat Club Road in Lake Worth.
March 2016Thunderstorm WindLake Worth$5,000A social media report indicated damage at a Tarrant Community College Northwest Campus building.
December 2022Tornado (EF1)Lake Worth$1,000The parent mesocyclone that impacted the NAS JRB continued moving off to the northeast, developing another tornado that mainly impacted the Marion Sansom Park. Damage was confined to trees, with a few trees snapped near the top of the trunk. The tornado crossed Roberts Cut Off Rd, causing more tree damage and minor fence damage before dissipating as it entered the city of Sansom Park. Maximum estimated winds were 105 mph.
May 2011HailLake Worth$1,000Quarter sized hail fell for 10 minutes in Lake Worth.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindLake Worth$500Large tree limbs were broken off on NW 28th Street near Meacham Blvd in Fort Worth.
April 2026HailLake Worth-Report of 1 inch hail from mPING.
March 2023HailLake Worth-Quarter size hail was reported a few times in Sansom Park via mPing.
August 2022Flash FloodLake Worth-Fort Worth Fire and Rescue was working 25 high water calls at 10 AM CDT.
March 2019HailLake Worth-Amateur radio reported half-dollar sized hail near the intersection of Azle Avenue and Loop 820 in the city of Lake Worth, TX.
May 2016HailLake Worth-A trained spotter reported nickel sized hail at Loop 820 and Jacksboro Highway.
December 2014HailLake Worth-Hail up to the size of dimes fell in Lake Worth.
August 1994HailLake Worth-Dime-size hail occurred in western Tarrant County 3 miles west of Benbrook on Interstate 20.
April 1994HailLake Worth-Hail nickel- to quarter-size fell at WSFO Fort Worth, at the intersection of North Beach Street and Loop 820.
April 2011HailLake Worth-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
Sansom Park2.2 miles17
Lakeside2.8 miles17
White Settlement3.2 miles17
River Oaks3.3 miles17
Westworth3.7 miles17
Lake Crest Estates4.2 miles17
Westover Hills4.5 miles15
Castle Hill Estate5.7 miles15

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 Lake WorthAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q977384The 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 1339528. 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.