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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.

Willow Park within Parker County

Population over time

2 figures

Willow 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.

YearPeople Change
20103,982
20204,936+954 (+24%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 16 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

102 since 2005

Regional 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/undetermined58
Power generation/transmission/distribution16
Debris and open burning12
Equipment and vehicle use11
Smoking1
Natural1
Recreation and ceremony1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
30 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceNORTH LAKE
13 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service201 DORRIS COURT
12 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service16000 WHITE SETTLEMENT RD
6 August 2009Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceG&L
4 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service2000 UNDERWOOD RD
24 August 2009Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceTACKETT CT
20 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceIH-20 NSR & FM 3325
20 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service5300 FM 730

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Parker County

Storms near this place

3 since 1993

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 1993Thunderstorm WindWillow Park$50,000Thunderstorm winds destroyed a mobile home and blew down power lines.
April 1994HailWillow Park-no account filed
April 1994HailWillow Park-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Parker 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
Hudson Oaks3.0 miles16
Annetta North3.3 miles17
Annetta3.9 miles17
Dicey4.0 miles16
Punkin Center4.2 miles16
Center Point4.5 miles17
Wampler4.6 miles16
Earls5.2 miles17

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 ParkAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q976120The 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.