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.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 11 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.
- 1954 USGS Dallas quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Kaufman quadrangle1:62500
- 1958 USGS Dallas quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Scurry quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Dallas quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
Fires near this place
175 since 2005Regional 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 burning | 70 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 47 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 20 |
| Smoking | 16 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 9 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 8 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 5 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2014 | Smoking | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | HWY 175 |
| 9 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 4 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | TURN AROUND AGAIN |
| 4 September 2011 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | TURN AROUND |
| 30 September 2016 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | SOUTHBEND |
| 3 September 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 275 |
| 3 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | DALLAS EAST |
| 28 September 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | W HWY 175 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
1 since 2024Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gastonia | $12,000 | Two RVs were overturned at the Rusted Rail RV park between Crandall and Kaufman. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Crandall | 3.0 miles | 12 | |
| Lone Star | 3.2 miles | 10 | |
| Warsaw Center | 4.0 miles | 11 | |
| Warsaw | 4.4 miles | 11 | |
| Post Oak Bend City | 4.9 miles | 10 | |
| Talty | 5.0 miles | 12 | |
| Kaufman | 5.2 miles | 10 | |
| Post Oak Bend | 5.5 miles | 10 |
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 Gastonia | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q22076489 | 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 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.




