Butterfield, Texas
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the El Paso East census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79938. The Survey maps it on the Helms West Well quadrangle. 100 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,219 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresButterfield fell from 114 to 100 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 | 114 | |
| 2020 | 100 | -14 (-12%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
13 surveys from 17 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.
- 1896 USGS El Paso quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1908 USGS El Paso quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1939 USGS Heuco Tanks quadrangle1:62500
- 1940 USGS Heuco Tanks quadrangle1:62500
- 1944 USGS Heuco Tanks quadrangle1:62500
- 1948 USGS Helms West Well quadrangle1:24000
- 1953 USGS El Paso quadrangle1:250000
- 1955 USGS Helms West Well quadrangle1:24000
- 1959 USGS El Paso quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1964 USGS El Paso quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS El Paso quadrangle1:250000
- 1983 USGS El Paso quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1995 USGS Helms West Well quadrangle1:24000
Mines and quarries near this place
7 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Butterfield: 3 occurrences, 3 producers, 1 unknown. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Uranium, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Platinum, Gold, Silver, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hueco Pit | Limestone, Dimension, Limestone, General | Producer | ||
| Paisano Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General | Producer | Limestone | |
| Unnamed Prospect | Platinum, Gold, Silver | Occurrence | ||
| Jobe Quarry No. 2 | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Paisano Rock Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Unknown | ||
| R.O.H.K. Prospect | Uranium | Occurrence | Carnotite | |
| Unnamed Prospects | Uranium | Occurrence | Carnotite |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Butterfield City Number 3 Colonia | 0.2 miles | 17 | |
| Butterfield City Number 1 Colonia | 0.2 miles | 17 | |
| Butterfield City Number 2 Colonia | 0.2 miles | 17 | |
| Butterfield City Number 4 Colonia | 1.9 miles | 17 | |
| Hueco Mountain Estates Number 9 Colonia | 2.4 miles | 17 | |
| Mountain Meadows Estates Colonia | 2.5 miles | 17 | |
| Montana Land Estates Colonia | 2.6 miles | 17 | |
| Paso View Colonia | 2.7 miles | 17 |
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 Butterfield | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q974633 | 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 1852689. 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.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.












