Pecan Gap is a city in Delta and Fannin counties within the U.S. state of Texas. It is sometimes informally referred to as “The Gap” by area residents. The population was 178 at the get older of the 2020 census. It is named for the gap between two pecan trees, but unfortunately one of the two pecan trees was destroyed by a tornado in 1963.

The first inhabitants of the area that is now Pecan Gap were the Caddo people, who fixed large portions of eastern Texas as beforehand as 800 CE. The Caddo were very advanced, living in large wooden structures, and were talented farmers. The first European to visit the Place was French buccaneer François Hervey, around 1750. A few decades afterwards, European disorder and attacks from adjoining tribes as well as attacks from European settlers goaded the Caddo out of the area around Pecan Gap. Around 1820, Delaware, Quapaw, and Seminole tribes began settling in the area. In 1836, the Republic of Texas officially qualified the region re Pecan Gap as allowance of Red River County. In 1840, Lamar County was formed, which absorbed much of the Place just south of Pecan Gap. However, just six years later, the region was designated as part of the newly formed Hopkins County. In 1870 Delta County was created. As Pecan Gap grew it expanded west into Fannin County.

Pecan Gap is one of just two incorporated communities in Delta County. The city is the second largest in the county, population-wise, behind Cooper. According to statistics from the Census Bureau, the city covers a total area of 0.63 square miles (1.64 km), of which 0.01 square miles (0.02 km²), or 1.13%, is water.

Pecan Gap, as with ease as most of Delta County, is located in the Texas blackland prairies region, a flat, tallgrass prairie ecosystem that covers a large allowance of north-central Texas. The region’s height rarely varies from regarding 400 to 500 feet (120 to 150 m). The area’s geology consists mainly of deep clay, or clay tainted with a dark-colored loam. However, the county is as well as known to have high-quality topsoil, ideal for crop growing. A specific enlargement of the soil in the region is known as Pecan Gap Chalk, named for the city behind it was discovered within reach in 1918. The growth is a blue-gray, sandy chalk substance, which is fossil-rich and is located in much of the Pecan Gap vicinity.