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La Pryor, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the La Pryor census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78872. The Survey maps it on the La Pryor quadrangle. 1,294 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 745 feet above sea level.

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La Pryor within Zavala County

Population over time

2 figures

La Pryor fell from 1,643 to 1,294 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
20101,643
20201,294-349 (-21%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 9 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

55 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 55 fires within 5 miles of La Pryor between 2005 and 2019, burning about 784 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 were 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/undetermined35
Debris and open burning8
Arson/incendiarism6
Equipment and vehicle use3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Smoking1

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
8 August 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 1436
11 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
4 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
29 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
21 July 2006Smoking20 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
16 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
14 July 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
2 April 2009Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE

Every fire recorded in Zavala County

Storms near this place

27 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names La Pryor in 27 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 14 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 6 flash flood, 1 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
June 1998Thunderstorm WindLa Pryor$60,000Wind damage was reported to the roofs of numerous buildings in LaPryor.
April 2002Thunderstorm WindLa Pryor$50,000Severe thunderstorm winds knocked over trees, and blew down tree limbs in and around the LaPryor area.
September 2000Thunderstorm WindLa Pryor$50,000Severe thunderstorm winds blew the roof off a school, and also knocked down several trees.
May 2001Thunderstorm WindLa Pryor$30,000Severe thunderstorm winds blow over power lines near La Pryor.
March 1999HailLa Pryor$30,000Hail broke windows in the town of LaPryor.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindLa Pryor$5,000The Zavala County Emergency Manager reported wind damage to several trees and mobile homes on the east side of La Pryor.
May 1994HailLa Pryor$5,000The worst damage was done east and south of Crystal City, where a combination of wind and hail damaged trees and destroyed gardens. Roofs, windowns and vehicle windshields were ruined. Many trees were also reported to have been uprooted.
February 2026HailLa Pryor-A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail in La Pryor. There were pictures of the hail on social media.
May 2022HailLa Pryor-A thunderstorm produced hail slightly bigger than a quarter in La Pryor.
April 2019Thunderstorm WindLa Pryor-A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 70 mph that knocked down several trees and tree limbs in La Pryor.
May 2019HailLa Pryor-A thunderstorm produced one inch hail in La Pryor.
August 2016Flash FloodLa Pryor-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that caused flash flooding closing Hwy 83 between La Pryor and Crystal City.
August 2016Flash FloodLa Pryor-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that caused flash flooding closing Hwy 83 just south of La Pryor and Hwy 57 near Batesville.
May 2015Flash FloodLa Pryor-Many roads in the city of La Pryor, including Highway 83 and 57 were closed due to water over the road.
May 2015Flash FloodLa Pryor-Water was reported over highway 57 at mile marker 390 between La Pryor and Batesville.
October 2015Flash FloodLa Pryor-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that caused flash flooding closing several roads west and south of La Pryor including Highways 83 and 57.
August 2005Flash FloodLa Pryor-The thunderstorms in Kinney and Maverick County spread northeastward into western Zavala County in the early afternoon. They dropped between 1 and 2 inches of rain across the area, with up to 3 inches just west of LaPryor. Flash flooding was reported at low water crossings along US57 east of LaPryor and US83 north of LaPryor.
November 2004Tornado (F0)La Pryor-Deputies from the Zavala County Sheriff's Department observed a small and short-lived tornado as it touched down west of LaPryor in the late afternoon. The tornado moved briefly over open country and caused no known damage. It was rated F0 on the Fujita Scale.
February 2016HailLa Pryor-no account filed
February 2016HailLa Pryor-no account filed
May 2013HailLa Pryor-no account filed
April 2010HailLa Pryor-no account filed
May 2008HailLa Pryor-no account filed
May 2007HailLa Pryor-no account filed
November 2004HailLa Pryor-no account filed
February 1998HailLa Pryor-no account filed
March 1996HailLa Pryor-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Zavala 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
Nueces Campsite Lots Colonia10.7 miles9
Batesville12.3 miles8
Bee Crest Colonia13.7 miles10
Las Colonias14.5 miles10
Loma Grande Colonia15.1 miles10
Triangula Colonia15.2 miles10
Amaya Colonia15.9 miles10
Bushy Creek Colonia16.7 miles10

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 La PryorAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q977283The 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 1360810. 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.

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.