Gustine, Texas
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Gustine census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76455. It stands on Holmsley Creek. The Survey maps it on the Gustine quadrangle. 392 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,191 feet above sea level.
Population over time
3 figuresGustine fell from 457 to 392 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 | 457 | |
| 2010 | 476 | +19 (+4%) |
| 2020 | 392 | -84 (-18%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 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.
- 1888 USGS Hamilton quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Hamilton quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1954 USGS Brownwood quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Gustine quadrangle1:62500
- 1956 USGS Gustine quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Comanche quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
43 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 43 fires within 5 miles of Gustine between 2006 and 2020, burning about 4,294 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 13 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 12 |
| Debris and open burning | 10 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Natural | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 3 TIMES |
| 19 August 2010 | Equipment and vehicle use | 25 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | ADAMS |
| 31 July 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 25 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HWY 36 OCHOA |
| 27 July 2012 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | KING FIRE |
| 25 July 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | RIPLEY |
| 23 July 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GUSTINE FIRE |
| 22 July 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4,100 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | LAMKIN |
| 15 July 2010 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | GARY MOORE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
19 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gustine in 19 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 9 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 flood. The reports record 1 death and 1 injury. 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 2007 | Flash Flood | Gustine | 1 killed, 1 hurt, $30,000 | A car was swept into a creek near CR 370 off of FM 1702 near the Hazeldell community. An 82-year-old man was rescued. A female occupant in the vehicle drowned. Also, in Proctor, a woman drove a truck into a flooded creek at Old Fleming Road at the Proctor cut off. She was rescued by two citizens who broke the back window of the truck out. She suffered minor injuries from broken glass and some bruises. |
| May 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gustine | $20,000 | Two homes were damaged, and numerous trees were uprooted by high winds. |
| June 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gustine | $5,000 | Two trees were blown down by thunderstorm winds. |
| October 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gustine | $5,000 | Wind damaged irrigation equipment. |
| February 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gustine | $3,000 | Power poles were down in Gustine. |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gustine | - | A social media report indicated trees blown down near Gustine. |
| May 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gustine | - | Thunderstorm winds blew down large tree limbs in Gustine, which is approximately 10 miles east of Comanche. |
| July 2007 | Flash Flood | Gustine | - | A foot-and-a-half of water was reported over FM 2823. |
| June 2007 | Flood | Gustine | - | Flooding continued from previous rains on FM 2823 northeast of Gustine and along Highway 36 from Gustine to the Comanche/Hamilton County line. |
| October 2007 | Hail | Gustine | - | Reported on FM 2382 in the southeastern part of the county. |
| June 2004 | Hail | Gustine | - | Golfball size hail from the Hamilton County line to Energy. |
| May 1995 | Hail | Gustine | - | Up to golf ball-size hail fell, accumulating to a foot deep, causing severe crop damage. |
| May 1995 | Hail | Gustine | - | Up to golf ball-size hail fell, accumulating to a foot deep, causing severe crop damage. |
| October 1993 | Hail | Gustine | - | The last three entries were due to a separate thunderstorm that had moved south from Stephens and Eastland county. Damage in Deleon was estimated at over 2.5 million dollars. |
| May 2003 | Hail | Gustine | - | no account filed |
| March 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gustine | - | no account filed |
| March 2001 | Hail | Gustine | - | no account filed |
| April 1995 | Hail | Gustine | - | no account filed |
| April 1994 | Hail | Gustine | - | 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.
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 Gustine | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q738989 | 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 1337142. 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.





