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River Oaks, 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 76114. It stands on Farmers Branch. The Survey maps it on the Lake Worth quadrangle. 7,646 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 600 feet above sea level.

River Oaks within Tarrant County

Population over time

2 figures

River Oaks grew from 7,427 to 7,646 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
20107,427
20207,646+219 (+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

409 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 409 fires within 5 miles of River Oaks between 2005 and 2020, burning about 128 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 3 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/undetermined359
Power generation/transmission/distribution14
Equipment and vehicle use10
Smoking6
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Debris and open burning4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Arson/incendiarism3
Recreation and ceremony3
Natural2

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 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceOAKHURST SCENIC
8 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceFARNSWORTH
7 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service2500
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
4 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceN HENDERSON
4 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceW LANCASTER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tarrant County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of River Oaks: 3 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Silica. 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
Williams PitSilicaProducer
General Portland Inc Ft Worth PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
General Portland Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Tarrant County

Storms near this place

12 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names River Oaks in 12 storm reports between 1997 and 2026: 7 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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
April 2008HailRiver Oaks$10,000,000Car dealerships reported damage to about 8,000 vehicles in the metroplex. Roofs of homes and private vehicles were also damaged.
September 2011Thunderstorm WindRiver Oaks$50,000Trees were blown down onto homes off of Roberts Cut Off Road in River Oaks. Damage also occurred to businesses along River Oaks Boulevard. A bank drive-thru was damaged, the roof of a barbershop was partially peeled back, the windows were knocked out of a grocery store, a restaurant had its sign twisted, and a clinic lost part of its roof.
November 2008Flash FloodRiver Oaks$15,000Garages and porches were flooded in River Oaks and a swift water rescue was required in Westworth. High water was reportedly a foot deep on I-30 near Ridgmar Mall. Vehicles were stranded by high waters on Bryant Irvin just south of I-20.
April 2026HailRiver Oaks-NWS employee reported 1.25 inch hail near River Oaks.
March 2022Tornado (EF0)River Oaks-The tornado began along Inspiration Lane in River Oaks. It then moved northeast and produced widespread tree damage through a neighborhood just southwest of Jacksboro Highway. Some EF1 tornado damage was found on Hillside Drive and Circle Ridge Drive where multiple tree trunks were snapped and/or uprooted. As the tornado crossed Jacksboro Highway, additional EF0 damage was found between 18th Street and 22nd Street between Menefee Avenue and Long Avenue. Maximum estimated winds were 100 mph.
October 2019Thunderstorm WindRiver Oaks-A 62 MPH wind gust was measured by the Automated Weather Observation System at Fort Worth Naval Air Station.
April 2017HailRiver Oaks-A social media report indicated quarter-sized hail approximately 3 miles west of Fort Worth.
April 2017HailRiver Oaks-Emergency Management reported that quarter-sized hail fell for 3 minutes in the |city of River Oaks.
May 2011HailRiver Oaks-Nickel to quarter sized hail fell 2 miles southeast of River Oaks.
May 2011HailRiver Oaks-no account filed
April 2007Thunderstorm WindRiver Oaks-no account filed
April 1997HailRiver Oaks-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
Westworth1.6 miles17
Sansom Park2.0 miles17
Westover Hills2.4 miles15
Lake Worth3.3 miles17
White Settlement3.6 miles17
Fort Worth5.3 miles16
Belt Junction5.7 miles16
Melody Hills5.8 miles18

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 River OaksAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q177080The 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 1345261. 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.