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Gun Barrel City, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Cedar Creek Lake census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75156. The Survey maps it on the Tool quadrangle. 6,190 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 351 feet above sea level.

Gun Barrel City within Henderson County

Population over time

2 figures

Gun Barrel City grew from 5,672 to 6,190 between 2010 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
20105,672
20206,190+518 (+9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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

117 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 117 fires within 5 miles of Gun Barrel City between 1998 and 2020, burning about 1,817 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 4 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 burning57
Missing data/not specified/undetermined31
Equipment and vehicle use9
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Smoking5
Arson/incendiarism4
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Natural2
Recreation and ceremony1

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
7 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
4 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceALLEN RANCH RD
4 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMEADOW HEATH
26 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceDEL MAR - GRANADA FIRE
25 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceBEDFORDS BEND
21 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceTOOL FIRE
20 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service2011-422
17 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2011-419

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Henderson County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Gun Barrel City: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Jomac Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Henderson County

Storms near this place

5 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gun Barrel City in 5 storm reports between 1993 and 1994: 3 hail, 2 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
February 1993Thunderstorm WindGun Barrel City$500,000A severe thunderstorm caused damage to houses, airplanes, and signs across the city.
April 1993HailGun Barrel City$50,000A severe thunderstorm from southern Kaufman County near Kemp to Seven Points in northern Henderson County, moved eastward to just north of Athens producing widespread hail damage across the northern part of Henderson County. Several hundred homes received hail damage, with numerous cars, trucks and signs also damaged.
May 1994Thunderstorm WindGun Barrel City$5,000Power lines and gas pumps were blown over by thunderstorm winds.
April 1994HailGun Barrel City-no account filed
April 1994HailGun Barrel City-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Henderson 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
Seven Points3.4 miles12
Tool4.7 miles12
Pauline5.2 miles14
Enchanted Oaks5.3 miles14
Aley5.7 miles9
Payne Springs5.9 miles14
Harmony6.2 miles9
Eustace7.9 miles14

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 Gun Barrel CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q981778The 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 1337131. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.