Pecan Gap, Texas
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Pecan Gap census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75469. The Survey maps it on the Pecan Gap quadrangle. 178 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 571 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresPecan Gap fell from 203 to 178 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 203 | |
| 2020 | 178 | -25 (-12%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 9 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.
- 1953 USGS Texarkana quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Texarkana quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Pecan Gap quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Sulphur Springs quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Sulphur Springs quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
74 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 74 fires within 5 miles of Pecan Gap between 2005 and 2018, burning about 734 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 5 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 burning | 27 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 23 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 16 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 5 |
| Natural | 3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 September 2012 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | FM 64 & CR 3400 |
| 28 September 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | 4.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 25 September 2015 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 22 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 19 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | PG ROAD FIRE |
| 15 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 11 September 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 11 September 2013 | Natural | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CR 3544 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
8 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pecan Gap in 8 storm reports between 1995 and 2022: 4 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 2015 | Flood | Pecan Gap | $50,000 | Several county and farm-to-market roads remained flooded across the county after several inches of heavy rain. |
| May 2006 | Hail | Pecan Gap | $5,000 | no account filed |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pecan Gap | $1,000 | The metal covering over a house roof was partially peeled off. |
| April 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pecan Gap | $100 | Thunderstorm winds knocked trees and power lines down. |
| April 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pecan Gap | - | 60 mph wind reported. |
| April 2005 | Hail | Pecan Gap | - | no account filed |
| February 1999 | Hail | Pecan Gap | - | no account filed |
| May 1995 | Hail | Pecan Gap | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rattan | 3.7 miles | 9 | |
| Jot-Em-Down | 3.8 miles | 9 | |
| Antioch | 4.8 miles | 9 | |
| Ben Franklin | 5.0 miles | 9 | |
| Yowell | 6.4 miles | 9 | |
| Price | 6.8 miles | 8 | |
| Gough | 6.9 miles | 9 | |
| Crossroads | 7.5 miles | 8 |
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 Pecan Gap | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q977197 | 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 1364973. 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.




