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Byers, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Byers-Petrolia census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76357. The Survey maps it on the Petrolia quadrangle. 454 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,010 feet above sea level.

Byers within Clay County

On record in Byers

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Byers fell from 496 to 454 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
2010496
2020454-42 (-8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 10 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.

Fires near this place

110 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 110 fires within 5 miles of Byers between 2005 and 2020, burning about 2,317 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 1 was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined57
Equipment and vehicle use22
Debris and open burning13
Power generation/transmission/distribution10
Natural6
Recreation and ceremony1
Arson/incendiarism1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
4 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined450 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSCHAFFNER FIRE
30 September 2013Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceELLEDGE N MORGAN
24 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMCADAMS FIRE
21 September 2020Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service9212020
20 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSCHAFFNER FIRE
17 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM171VALENTINERDGRASS
16 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSCHAFFNER FIRE
10 September 2013Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY 79 AT BYERS M/A GRASS FIRE 10-22

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clay County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Byers: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Unknown Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Clay County

Storms near this place

22 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Byers in 22 storm reports between 1993 and 2026: 15 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2006Thunderstorm WindByers$150Several tree limbs were downed.
April 2026HailByers-The report was relayed through mPING.
April 2026HailByers-The report was relayed through mPING.
March 2024HailByers-Relayed report via amateur radio.
November 2024Tornado (EF1)Byers-A storm chaser observed a tornado at times across northeastern Clay County. The tornado initially developed south of Byers and moved north and then northeast into the far northeastern edge of Clay County dissipating near the Red River. The tornado may have extended into Jefferson County Oklahoma, but no evidence could be found on the Oklahoma side of the Red River.||At least two homes experienced significant roof damage, a couple of barns were significantly damaged and a few large trees were snapped or uprooted.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindByers-Power lines downed on highway 79 between Patrolia and Byers.
May 2015Tornado (EF0)Byers-Spotters observed a multiple-vortex tornado believed to be south of the Red River approximately 4 miles south of Ryan OK. No damage was reported.
May 2015HailByers-No damage reported.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindByers-Numerous large tree limbs were blown down by winds estimated at 65 mph.
July 1994HailByers-Thunderstorms in the western part of north Texas during the evening hours of the 7th produced hail up to nickel-size and damaging winds. Thunderstorm winds uprooted trees and broke off tree limbs in Byers and damaged a mobile home just east of Byers.
July 1994Thunderstorm WindByers-Thunderstorms in the western part of north Texas during the evening hours of the 7th produced hail up to nickel-size and damaging winds. Thunderstorm winds uprooted trees and broke off tree limbs in Byers and damaged a mobile home just east of Byers.
March 2018HailByers-no account filed
March 2013HailByers-no account filed
May 2012HailByers-no account filed
April 2004HailByers-no account filed
May 2001HailByers-no account filed
June 1995HailByers-no account filed
June 1995HailByers-no account filed
August 1994Thunderstorm WindByers-no account filed
August 1994HailByers-no account filed
March 1993HailByers-no account filed
March 1993HailByers-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Clay 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Petrolia4.4 miles10
Charlie6.9 miles11
Hurnville7.6 miles8
Thornberry10.5 miles10
Dean11.6 miles8
Stanfield12.2 miles10
Jolly16.4 miles8
Walton16.8 miles8

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 ByersAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q982221The 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 1353465. 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.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.