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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.

Gustine within Comanche County

Population over time

3 figures

Gustine 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.

YearPeople Change
2000457
2010476+19 (+4%)
2020392-84 (-18%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

43 since 2006

Regional 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 use13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Debris and open burning10
Arson/incendiarism2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Recreation and ceremony1
Natural1

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
6 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service3 TIMES
19 August 2010Equipment and vehicle use25 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceADAMS
31 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use25 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY 36 OCHOA
27 July 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceKING FIRE
25 July 2019Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceRIPLEY
23 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGUSTINE FIRE
22 July 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined4,100 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLAMKIN
15 July 2010Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGARY MOORE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Comanche County

Storms near this place

19 since 1993

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2007Flash FloodGustine1 killed, 1 hurt, $30,000A 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 1995Thunderstorm WindGustine$20,000Two homes were damaged, and numerous trees were uprooted by high winds.
June 1994Thunderstorm WindGustine$5,000Two trees were blown down by thunderstorm winds.
October 1993Thunderstorm WindGustine$5,000Wind damaged irrigation equipment.
February 2009Thunderstorm WindGustine$3,000Power poles were down in Gustine.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindGustine-A social media report indicated trees blown down near Gustine.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindGustine-Thunderstorm winds blew down large tree limbs in Gustine, which is approximately 10 miles east of Comanche.
July 2007Flash FloodGustine-A foot-and-a-half of water was reported over FM 2823.
June 2007FloodGustine-Flooding continued from previous rains on FM 2823 northeast of Gustine and along Highway 36 from Gustine to the Comanche/Hamilton County line.
October 2007HailGustine-Reported on FM 2382 in the southeastern part of the county.
June 2004HailGustine-Golfball size hail from the Hamilton County line to Energy.
May 1995HailGustine-Up to golf ball-size hail fell, accumulating to a foot deep, causing severe crop damage.
May 1995HailGustine-Up to golf ball-size hail fell, accumulating to a foot deep, causing severe crop damage.
October 1993HailGustine-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 2003HailGustine-no account filed
March 2002Thunderstorm WindGustine-no account filed
March 2001HailGustine-no account filed
April 1995HailGustine-no account filed
April 1994HailGustine-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Comanche 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
Siloam3.4 miles14
Fleming4.3 miles13
Hazeldell4.5 miles14
Energy5.9 miles14
Newburg7.5 miles13
Lamkin7.5 miles14
Hasse7.8 miles14
Wilson9.3 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 GustineAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q738989The 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.