Willow Park, Texas
Willow Park is a city in Parker County, in the rolling hill-and-prairie country west of Fort Worth, sitting along Interstate 20 about 19 miles west of the city and just east of Weatherford. It began as a rural farming community and grew into a residential suburb as the Fort Worth metro expanded westward, and it remains one of the faster-growing corners of a fast-growing county. The land around it mixes wooded creek bottoms with open ranchland.
Place essentials
Official Census snapshot- Census place type
- City
- July 2025 population
- 7,439
- Change from 2020 base
- +38.9%
- Land area
- 6.4 sq. mi.
- County footprint
- Parker County
Place type, county footprint, and land area use the Census Bureau's January 1, 2025 geography. Population uses Vintage 2025 estimates through July 1, 2025; change compares that estimate with the April 1, 2020 estimates base. Geography file | Population file
Property here runs through the appraisal district and tax office for Parker County. The homestead exemption, appraisal cap, protests, and any MUD, PID, or special districts all sit at the parcel level.
Official routes
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County context
What to know around Willow Park
County lines carry much of the property, land, water, and outdoors context around Willow Park.
County History
Parker County was formed in 1855 and named for a settler leader
Parker County was carved out of Bosque and Navarro counties after settlers petitioned the state legislature in 1855.
Property Tax
Two offices handle property taxes in Parker County
Two doors next to each other on Santa Fe Drive split the job. One decides what your property is worth, the other handles your license plates.
Indigenous History
Kiowa and Comanche raids shaped early Parker County
Kiowa and Comanche bands controlled the Parker County area before and during early European settlement, with raids continuing into the early 1870s.
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