Mineral Wells, Texas

Mineral Wells population, 2020 to 2024

Mineral Wells added 859 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +5.8%. In the latest year it moved by +225. Among 384 Texas places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 168th; the median place changed by +4.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in Texas has 15,345 people, so Mineral Wells is 1.0 times that size.

Mineral Wells covers 20.40 square miles of land and 0.76 of water, for 769 people per square mile of land. The median Texas place of 5,000+ has 1,561, so Mineral Wells is less dense than the typical town.

The 2 counties Mineral Wells spans

Mineral Wells crosses county lines. The Census county-part estimates split its 15,688 residents as follows; Palo Pinto County holds 98.9% of them. The shaded shapes are on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Mineral Wells

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Mineral Wells by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 76067, 76088. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a city that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Mineral Wells is

The Census internal point of Mineral Wells is at 32.823500, -98.078800. Austin, the capital, is 177.3 miles S in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Weatherford, TX (39,397 people), 18.5 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Fort Worth, TX, 42.5 miles away.

Daylight in Mineral Wells

At 32.82° N, Mineral Wells gets about 14 h 19 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 59 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 20 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Mineral Wells

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Texas, measured between internal points. The closest is Weatherford, 18.5 miles away, with 39,397 people.