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Gorman, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Gorman census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76454. The Survey maps it on the Gorman quadrangle. 976 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,453 feet above sea level.

Gorman within Eastland County

Population over time

3 figures

Gorman fell from 1,236 to 976 between 2000 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
20001,236
20101,083-153 (-12%)
2020976-107 (-10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

Fires near this place

44 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 44 fires within 5 miles of Gorman between 2006 and 2020, burning about 1,276 acres in total. 2 started naturally. None was 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Equipment and vehicle use10
Debris and open burning7
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Natural2

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
23 September 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWILLIAMS
29 August 2010Debris and open burning7.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLODERER FIRE
25 August 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePLASTIC POOL FIRE
19 August 2011Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBURNS FIRE
5 July 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution100 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceDEAD DEER FIRE
31 July 2010Equipment and vehicle use1.5 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHIGGINBOTHAM
28 July 2014Natural3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceRUCKER GRASS FIRE
25 July 2011Equipment and vehicle use25 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLOVE FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Eastland County

Storms near this place

26 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gorman in 26 storm reports between 1993 and 2023: 15 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 4 flash flood, 1 lightning. 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 2023HailGorman$100,000A trained spotter reported 3 inch hail near Gorman near Highway 6.
April 2023HailGorman$50,000A social media picture near Gorman measured tennis ball sized hail.
May 1995Thunderstorm WindGorman$15,000Wind gusts to 70 miles an hour blew down trees, damaged carports and outbuildings.
March 2004Thunderstorm WindGorman$10,000The roof of the Baptist church in Kokomo was partially removed.
April 2015HailGorman$8,000no account filed
August 2005LightningGorman$5,000Lightning struck a transformer and started a fire in Desdemona.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindGorman$5,000A school roof was damaged by thunderstorms. Trees and power lines were also blown down.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindGorman$5,000Thunderstorm winds blew down a storage building and took a sheet metal roof from a house.
April 2008HailGorman$5,000no account filed
March 2009HailGorman$1,000Large quantities of penny size hail fell in western and northern sections of Gorman.
March 2016HailGorman-Quarter sized hail was reported on the west side of Gorman.
April 2013HailGorman-Quarter sized hail was reported 12 miles north of Gorman.
June 2007Flash FloodGorman-A railroad had to shut down portions of its line through town due to high water.
April 2006HailGorman-Reported by Gorman Police Department along CR 575.
July 1999Flash FloodGorman-Street flooding was reported in Gorman.
May 1997Flash FloodGorman-Highway 8 was reported flooded.
June 2004HailGorman-no account filed
May 2002HailGorman-no account filed
April 1999HailGorman-no account filed
May 1999HailGorman-no account filed
May 1998HailGorman-no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindGorman-no account filed
March 1998HailGorman-no account filed
June 1997Thunderstorm WindGorman-no account filed
February 1997Flash FloodGorman-no account filed
April 1993HailGorman-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Eastland 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
Ellison Springs (historical)2.8 miles13
Kokomo5.1 miles12
Desdemona7.5 miles12
Carbon9.3 miles12
Staff10.2 miles12
Chaney10.8 miles12
Punkin Center11.1 miles12
Okra12.0 miles13

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 GormanAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q982436The 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 1336742. 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.