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Gastonia, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Crandall census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75114. The Survey maps it on the Scurry quadrangle. It stands 446 feet above sea level.

Gastonia within Kaufman County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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.

Fires near this place

175 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 175 fires within 5 miles of Gastonia between 2005 and 2020, burning about 1,417 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning70
Missing data/not specified/undetermined47
Equipment and vehicle use20
Smoking16
Misuse of fire by a minor9
Power generation/transmission/distribution8
Arson/incendiarism5

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2014Smokingunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY 175
9 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
4 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceTURN AROUND AGAIN
4 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceTURN AROUND
30 September 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSOUTHBEND
3 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service275
3 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceDALLAS EAST
28 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceW HWY 175

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kaufman County

Storms near this place

1 since 2024

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gastonia in 1 storm report in 2024: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
May 2024Thunderstorm WindGastonia$12,000Two RVs were overturned at the Rusted Rail RV park between Crandall and Kaufman.

Every storm recorded in Kaufman 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
Crandall3.0 miles12
Lone Star3.2 miles10
Warsaw Center4.0 miles11
Warsaw4.4 miles11
Post Oak Bend City4.9 miles10
Talty5.0 miles12
Kaufman5.2 miles10
Post Oak Bend5.5 miles10

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 GastoniaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22076489The 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 1378346. 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.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

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.