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.
Population over time
3 figuresGorman 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 1,236 | |
| 2010 | 1,083 | -153 (-12%) |
| 2020 | 976 | -107 (-10%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 13 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.
- 1894 USGS Eastland quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
- 1954 USGS Abilene quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Abilene quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS Gorman quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Stephenville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
44 since 2006Regional 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/undetermined | 18 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 10 |
| Debris and open burning | 7 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 7 |
| Natural | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 September 2014 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | WILLIAMS |
| 29 August 2010 | Debris and open burning | 7.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | LODERER FIRE |
| 25 August 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | PLASTIC POOL FIRE |
| 19 August 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | BURNS FIRE |
| 5 July 2011 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 100 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | DEAD DEER FIRE |
| 31 July 2010 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.5 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HIGGINBOTHAM |
| 28 July 2014 | Natural | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | RUCKER GRASS FIRE |
| 25 July 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 25 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | LOVE FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
26 since 1993Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2023 | Hail | Gorman | $100,000 | A trained spotter reported 3 inch hail near Gorman near Highway 6. |
| April 2023 | Hail | Gorman | $50,000 | A social media picture near Gorman measured tennis ball sized hail. |
| May 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gorman | $15,000 | Wind gusts to 70 miles an hour blew down trees, damaged carports and outbuildings. |
| March 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gorman | $10,000 | The roof of the Baptist church in Kokomo was partially removed. |
| April 2015 | Hail | Gorman | $8,000 | no account filed |
| August 2005 | Lightning | Gorman | $5,000 | Lightning struck a transformer and started a fire in Desdemona. |
| July 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gorman | $5,000 | A school roof was damaged by thunderstorms. Trees and power lines were also blown down. |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gorman | $5,000 | Thunderstorm winds blew down a storage building and took a sheet metal roof from a house. |
| April 2008 | Hail | Gorman | $5,000 | no account filed |
| March 2009 | Hail | Gorman | $1,000 | Large quantities of penny size hail fell in western and northern sections of Gorman. |
| March 2016 | Hail | Gorman | - | Quarter sized hail was reported on the west side of Gorman. |
| April 2013 | Hail | Gorman | - | Quarter sized hail was reported 12 miles north of Gorman. |
| June 2007 | Flash Flood | Gorman | - | A railroad had to shut down portions of its line through town due to high water. |
| April 2006 | Hail | Gorman | - | Reported by Gorman Police Department along CR 575. |
| July 1999 | Flash Flood | Gorman | - | Street flooding was reported in Gorman. |
| May 1997 | Flash Flood | Gorman | - | Highway 8 was reported flooded. |
| June 2004 | Hail | Gorman | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Gorman | - | no account filed |
| April 1999 | Hail | Gorman | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Gorman | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Gorman | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gorman | - | no account filed |
| March 1998 | Hail | Gorman | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gorman | - | no account filed |
| February 1997 | Flash Flood | Gorman | - | no account filed |
| April 1993 | Hail | Gorman | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ellison Springs (historical) | 2.8 miles | 13 | |
| Kokomo | 5.1 miles | 12 | |
| Desdemona | 7.5 miles | 12 | |
| Carbon | 9.3 miles | 12 | |
| Staff | 10.2 miles | 12 | |
| Chaney | 10.8 miles | 12 | |
| Punkin Center | 11.1 miles | 12 | |
| Okra | 12.0 miles | 13 |
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 Gorman | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q982436 | 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 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.




