Willow Park, Texas
16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Weatherford Southeast census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76087. It stands on Reservoir Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lake Weatherford quadrangle. 4,936 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 932 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresWillow Park grew from 3,982 to 4,936 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 | 3,982 | |
| 2020 | 4,936 | +954 (+24%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 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.
- 1891 USGS Weatherford quadrangle1:125000
- 1893 USGS Weatherford quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1932 USGS Springtown quadrangle1:62500
- 1954 USGS Dallas quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Dallas quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Lake Weatherford quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Fort Worth quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
102 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 102 fires within 5 miles of Willow Park between 2005 and 2017, burning about 254 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/undetermined | 58 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 16 |
| Debris and open burning | 12 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 11 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 September 2011 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | NORTH LAKE |
| 13 September 2011 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 201 DORRIS COURT |
| 12 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 16000 WHITE SETTLEMENT RD |
| 6 August 2009 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | G&L |
| 4 August 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 2000 UNDERWOOD RD |
| 24 August 2009 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | TACKETT CT |
| 20 August 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | IH-20 NSR & FM 3325 |
| 20 August 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 5300 FM 730 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
3 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Willow Park in 3 storm reports between 1993 and 1994: 2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Willow Park | $50,000 | Thunderstorm winds destroyed a mobile home and blew down power lines. |
| April 1994 | Hail | Willow Park | - | no account filed |
| April 1994 | Hail | Willow Park | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hudson Oaks | 3.0 miles | 16 | |
| Annetta North | 3.3 miles | 17 | |
| Annetta | 3.9 miles | 17 | |
| Dicey | 4.0 miles | 16 | |
| Punkin Center | 4.2 miles | 16 | |
| Center Point | 4.5 miles | 17 | |
| Wampler | 4.6 miles | 16 | |
| Earls | 5.2 miles | 17 |
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 Willow Park | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q976120 | 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 1388568. 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.






