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Gasoline, Texas
Gasoline, Texas
ghost town
	Gasoline, Texas Gasoline, Texas
	Coordinates: 34°20′33″N 101°0′42″W / 34.34250°N 101.01167°W
Country	United States
State	Texas
County	Briscoe
Became ghost town	1948
Time zone	UTC-6 (Central (CST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-5 (CDT)

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

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]

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

[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.

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Gasoline, Texas
ghost town
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Coordinates: 34°20′33″N 101°0′42″W / 34.34250°N 101.01167°W / 34.34250; -101.01167
Country	United States
State	Texas
County	Briscoe
Became ghost town	1948
Time zone	UTC-6 (Central (CST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-5 (CDT)

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