Forest Hill Texas Map

About Forest Hill, Texas

Forest Hill is a locality in Wood County, Texas, United States. It has a population of 13,955. The population density is 1291.8 people per km². Forest Hill is located at 32.6619°N, 97.2662°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Forest Hill is an incorporated locality. ZIP codes: 76119, 77023, 75783.

Forest Hill occupies a stretch of North Texas prairie where the horizon broadens under a sky that seems to push against the earth with an immense, quiet weight. It lies 23.4 miles south-southeast of Sulphur Springs, TX (from Sulphur Springs, TX: bearing 153°T), and is situated 3.4 miles northeast of Quitman. Muddy Creek carves a slow, seasonal path through the local topography, its banks anchoring the verdant swaths of growth that break up the grid of residential streets. During the humid transitions of late afternoon, the light here takes on a bruised, golden quality, catching the dust motes that hang suspended above the dry grasses. Only twelve miles to the west, the silhouette of Stivers Hill rises as a distant, steady sentinel against the fading sun, while the stillness of Lake Quitman offers a cooling presence just two miles beyond the town’s eastern reach.

Forest Hill emerged from the expansion of the surrounding regional corridor, evolving from early agrarian roots into a place defined by its steady, industrious character and its proximity to the pulse of larger metropolitan transit. The local economy relies on a mixture of service and commercial enterprise, maintaining a pace that balances the demands of modern employment with the enduring habits of a settled neighborhood. Residents often gather at East Dam Park, a local space that serves as a quiet reprieve where the interplay of shade and open ground reflects the town’s modest, unpretentious spirit. Life in Forest Hill moves with a deliberate, rhythmic consistency, characterized by the hum of commuters and the familiar, everyday persistence of a community that has found its own way of enduring through the changing decades.

About This Forest Hill Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Forest Hill, Texas. Coordinates: 32.661936, -97.266235. Live weather conditions are sourced directly from the National Weather Service. Real-time local and world news feeds keep the page current.

Detailed location data for Forest Hill includes the ZIP code (76119, 77023, 75783), telephone area code (903, 817), county seat of Wood County (Quitman), and school district assignment (Fort Worth Independent School District).

Location data is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) and cross-verified against 2020 US Census records by coordinate proximity. Population figures are sourced from the 2020 US Census.