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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.

Pecan Gap within Delta County

Population over time

2 figures

Pecan 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.

YearPeople Change
2010203
2020178-25 (-12%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

74 since 2005

Regional 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 burning27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined23
Equipment and vehicle use16
Arson/incendiarism5
Natural3

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
3 September 2012Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 64 & CR 3400
28 September 2008Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
25 September 2015Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
22 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
19 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePG ROAD FIRE
15 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
11 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
11 September 2013Natural3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 3544

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Delta County

Storms near this place

8 since 1995

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
December 2015FloodPecan Gap$50,000Several county and farm-to-market roads remained flooded across the county after several inches of heavy rain.
May 2006HailPecan Gap$5,000no account filed
May 2022Thunderstorm WindPecan Gap$1,000The metal covering over a house roof was partially peeled off.
April 1999Thunderstorm WindPecan Gap$100Thunderstorm winds knocked trees and power lines down.
April 2005Thunderstorm WindPecan Gap-60 mph wind reported.
April 2005HailPecan Gap-no account filed
February 1999HailPecan Gap-no account filed
May 1995HailPecan Gap-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Delta 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
Rattan3.7 miles9
Jot-Em-Down3.8 miles9
Antioch4.8 miles9
Ben Franklin5.0 miles9
Yowell6.4 miles9
Price6.8 miles8
Gough6.9 miles9
Crossroads7.5 miles8

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 GapAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q977197The 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.