Gas City, Indiana
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Mill Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46933. It stands on City Run. The Survey maps it on the Gas City quadrangle. 6,157 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 856 feet above sea level.
On record in Gas City
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 3 records
Gas City High Schoollisted 2004
Thompson-Ray Houselisted 2009
West Ward Schoollisted 1985
Population over time
2 figuresGas City grew from 5,965 to 6,157 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 | 5,965 | |
| 2020 | 6,157 | +192 (+3%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 13 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.
- 1953 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1956 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Gas City quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1986 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
In the county-history sources
12,490 words on this townshipHistory of Grant County, Indiana, published 1886 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.
The chapter on Mill Township covers the township.
Read the chapter on Mill Township - 12,490 words.
Mines and quarries near this place
4 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Gas City: 4 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gas City-Own Crews | Stone | Producer | ||
| Grant Co. Hwy. Dept. | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Grant Co. Hwy. Dept.- Own Crews | Stone | Producer | ||
| Marion Plant | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
29 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gas City in 29 storm reports between 1998 and 2026: 17 hail, 10 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood, 1 tornado. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2026 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gas City | $1,000 | Video on Facebook shows a large tree falling in Gas City. |
| May 2024 | Hail | Gas City | $1,000 | In addition to the hail, the spotter recorded a 51mph wind gust via anemometer. |
| March 2024 | Hail | Gas City | $1,000 | no account filed |
| April 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gas City | - | A mesonet station IN008 Gas City. |
| March 2023 | Tornado (EF3) | Gas City | - | This intense tornado developed just southeast of Gas City and tracked rapidly|northeast before dissipating just east of 900 E and just south of 100 S. Numerous|homes sustained minor to major damage along this track with extensive tree damage|noted in many areas. The hardest hit area was just east off Blackthorn Drive where|several homes were destroyed. Tornado weakened as it crossed I-69 yet continued to|produce varying degrees of damage to barns, trees and homes before it dissipated. |
| May 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gas City | - | Emergency management officials reported damage to a house from a tree falling onto it. |
| November 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gas City | - | A 50 foot section of wall and roof collapsed at the Dollar General Warehouse. |
| June 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gas City | - | A mesonet site recorded a 58 mph wind gust. |
| August 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gas City | - | Trained spotters reported trees down across the county. One large tree was blocking the road at State Route 18 and Western Avenue. |
| September 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gas City | - | Six trees, each approximately 12 inches in diameter, were blown down. |
| September 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gas City | - | Numerous power and telephone lines blown down. |
| August 2001 | Flood | Gas City | - | Intersections flooded at SR 15 and 22, and SR 9 and 22, and SR 22 and US 35. |
| July 1998 | Hail | Gas City | - | GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL NEAR I-69 AND STATE ROADS 22 AND 35. |
| July 1998 | Hail | Gas City | - | ONE TO ONE AND A QUARTER INCH MEASURED IN GAS CITY. |
| June 2018 | Hail | Gas City | - | no account filed |
| March 2016 | Hail | Gas City | - | no account filed |
| August 2016 | Hail | Gas City | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Gas City | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Gas City | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Gas City | - | no account filed |
| September 2001 | Hail | Gas City | - | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Hail | Gas City | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Hail | Gas City | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Gas City | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Hail | Gas City | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Gas City | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Gas City | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gas City | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gas City | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jonesboro | 0.9 miles | 12 | |
| Brookhaven | 2.2 miles | 11 | |
| Bethevan | 2.8 miles | 12 | |
| Home Corner | 2.9 miles | 12 | |
| Kiley | 4.5 miles | 12 | |
| Lake Wood | 5.1 miles | 11 | |
| Michaelsville | 5.3 miles | 12 | |
| Fairmount | 5.3 miles | 12 |
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 Gas City | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1023000 | 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 434985. 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.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
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.



