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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.

Butterfield within El Paso County

Population over time

2 figures

Butterfield 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.

YearPeople Change
2010114
2020100-14 (-12%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 17 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.

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Hueco PitLimestone, Dimension, Limestone, GeneralProducer
Paisano QuarryStone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, GeneralProducerLimestone
Unnamed ProspectPlatinum, Gold, SilverOccurrence
Jobe Quarry No. 2Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Paisano Rock QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
R.O.H.K. ProspectUraniumOccurrenceCarnotite
Unnamed ProspectsUraniumOccurrenceCarnotite

Every working recorded in El Paso 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.

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 ButterfieldAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q974633The 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.