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Indian Gap, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Hamilton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76531. The Survey maps it on the Indian Gap quadrangle. It stands 1,562 feet above sea level.

Indian Gap within Hamilton County

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

46 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 46 fires within 5 miles of Indian Gap between 2005 and 2020, burning about 1,226 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 1 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
Equipment and vehicle use17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Debris and open burning10
Natural3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Arson/incendiarism1
Recreation and ceremony1
Smoking1

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
9 September 2009Natural1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePARTIN
4 September 2010Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR623
22 September 2019Power generation/transmission/distribution40 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBUFFE
22 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceINDIAN GAP CR 630
8 August 2016Power generation/transmission/distribution15 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 622
31 August 2011Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHARRIS
12 August 2015Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceNOLTE
9 July 2016Natural5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLIGHTNING

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hamilton County

Storms near this place

11 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Indian Gap in 11 storm reports between 1993 and 2017: 7 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 flood. 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 2011Thunderstorm WindIndian Gap$300,000Severe thunderstorm winds damaged barns, outbuildings, and trees across Hamilton County. Some trees were fully uprooted. The combination of severe winds and large hail damaged oat and wheat fields that were already suffering from the ongoing drought.
October 1993Thunderstorm WindIndian Gap$50,000Thunderstorm winds destroyed barns and killed some calves.
May 2013HailIndian Gap$5,000Trained spotters reported golf ball sized hail, just south of Indian Gap.
May 2017HailIndian Gap-Amateur radio reported quarter sized hail approximately 3 miles east of the city of Indian Gap, TX.
May 2015FloodIndian Gap-The Hamilton County Sheriff's Department reported flooding was beginning across several low water crossings.
May 2007Flash FloodIndian Gap-Cowhouse Creek flooded Highway 218 at Indian Gap and Pottsville.
May 2003HailIndian Gap-no account filed
January 2002HailIndian Gap-no account filed
March 2000HailIndian Gap-no account filed
October 1996HailIndian Gap-no account filed
October 1993HailIndian Gap-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hamilton 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
Pottsville4.7 miles13
Springdale6.2 miles13
Pecan Wells6.4 miles13
Shive10.1 miles13
McGirk10.9 miles13
Midway11.3 miles13
Schoolerville12.6 miles13
Gentrys Mill13.4 miles15

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 Indian GapAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14710524The 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 1338427. 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.