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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.

Gas City within Grant County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Gas 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.

YearPeople Change
20105,965
20206,157+192 (+3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 13 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.

In the county-history sources

12,490 words on this township

History 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 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Gas City-Own CrewsStoneProducer
Grant Co. Hwy. Dept.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Grant Co. Hwy. Dept.- Own CrewsStoneProducer
Marion PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Grant County

Storms near this place

29 since 1998

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2026Thunderstorm WindGas City$1,000Video on Facebook shows a large tree falling in Gas City.
May 2024HailGas City$1,000In addition to the hail, the spotter recorded a 51mph wind gust via anemometer.
March 2024HailGas City$1,000no account filed
April 2023Thunderstorm WindGas City-A mesonet station IN008 Gas City.
March 2023Tornado (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 2019Thunderstorm WindGas City-Emergency management officials reported damage to a house from a tree falling onto it.
November 2013Thunderstorm WindGas City-A 50 foot section of wall and roof collapsed at the Dollar General Warehouse.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindGas City-A mesonet site recorded a 58 mph wind gust.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindGas City-Trained spotters reported trees down across the county. One large tree was blocking the road at State Route 18 and Western Avenue.
September 2001Thunderstorm WindGas City-Six trees, each approximately 12 inches in diameter, were blown down.
September 2001Thunderstorm WindGas City-Numerous power and telephone lines blown down.
August 2001FloodGas City-Intersections flooded at SR 15 and 22, and SR 9 and 22, and SR 22 and US 35.
July 1998HailGas City-GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL NEAR I-69 AND STATE ROADS 22 AND 35.
July 1998HailGas City-ONE TO ONE AND A QUARTER INCH MEASURED IN GAS CITY.
June 2018HailGas City-no account filed
March 2016HailGas City-no account filed
August 2016HailGas City-no account filed
May 2011HailGas City-no account filed
May 2011HailGas City-no account filed
May 2011HailGas City-no account filed
September 2001HailGas City-no account filed
August 2001HailGas City-no account filed
May 2000HailGas City-no account filed
May 1999HailGas City-no account filed
June 1999HailGas City-no account filed
May 1999HailGas City-no account filed
May 1998HailGas City-no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindGas City-no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindGas City-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Grant 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
Jonesboro0.9 miles12
Brookhaven2.2 miles11
Bethevan2.8 miles12
Home Corner2.9 miles12
Kiley4.5 miles12
Lake Wood5.1 miles11
Michaelsville5.3 miles12
Fairmount5.3 miles12

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 CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1023000The 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.