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Gober, Texas

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Leonard census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75496. The Survey maps it on the Gober quadrangle. It stands 650 feet above sea level.

Gober within Fannin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 6 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

130 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 130 fires within 5 miles of Gober between 1993 and 2020, burning about 1,642 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 6 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 burning59
Equipment and vehicle use30
Missing data/not specified/undetermined29
Arson/incendiarism6
Natural2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Recreation and ceremony1
Smoking1

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 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE ON SIDE OF ROAD HWY 34
4 September 2014Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service842 CR 3135
4 September 2012Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
30 September 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service1510 FM 1552
3 September 2019Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBURGESS FIRE
3 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use40 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBAILEY FIRE
28 September 2016Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service1029 CR 3130
27 September 2013Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fannin County

Storms near this place

5 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gober in 5 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 2 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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
October 2021Thunderstorm WindGober$20,000Emergency management reported that the west side of the community center lost its roof in Gober, TX. An 18-wheeler was also knocked on its side and the playground was knocked on its side.
November 2020Thunderstorm WindGober$10,000Thunderstorm winds caused damage to a property on FM 68. A dumpster was moved and flipped. Tree branches were broken. A feed barrel was moved nearly 100 yards. Fencing was broken, tin was torn off the roof of a barn, and porch columns were leaning.
May 2024Flash FloodGober-Emergency management reported that several county roads in southern Fannin County were closed due to flooding.
April 2023HailGober-A public report indicated quarter sized hail about 5 miles southeast of Bonham.
June 1997HailGober-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Fannin 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
Clutter Point2.7 miles6
Hail2.8 miles6
Cotton Center3.3 miles6
Bartley Woods3.5 miles6
Prairie Point3.7 miles6
Bailey4.8 miles6
Silver City4.9 miles8
Shady Grove5.1 miles6

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 GoberAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5575441The 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 1381921. 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.