Gasoline, Texas

Gasoline is a ghost town in Briscoe County, Texas, United States.^[1]

Gasoline, Texas
ghost town
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Coordinates: 34°20′33″N 101°0′42″W
Country	United States
State	Texas
County	Briscoe
Became ghost town	1948
Time zone	UTC-6 (Central (CST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-5 (CDT)

A post office called Gasoline was established in 1907, and remained in operation until 1948.^[2] The community was named after a gasoline-powered cotton gin near the original town site.^[3]

References

1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Gasoline
2. "Post Offices". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved January 5, 2017.
3. Moyer, Armond; Moyer, Winifred (1958). The origins of unusual place-names. Keystone Pub. Associates. p. 55.