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Pawnee, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Pettus-Pawnee census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78145. The Survey maps it on the Pawnee quadrangle. 140 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 384 feet above sea level.

Pawnee within Bee County

Population over time

2 figures

Pawnee fell from 166 to 140 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
2010166
2020140-26 (-16%)

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

48 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 48 fires within 5 miles of Pawnee between 2006 and 2020, burning about 2,182 acres in total. 1 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
Equipment and vehicle use21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Debris and open burning10
Smoking1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Arson/incendiarism1
Natural1

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
5 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
4 August 2011Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBALES ON FIRE
31 August 2012Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE ON SIDE OF ROAD
30 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresTexas A & M Forest Service136
30 August 2012Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE SIDE OF ROAD
19 August 2011Equipment and vehicle use20 acresTexas A & M Forest Service623&CR 128
11 August 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS AND STRUCTURAL FIRE
4 July 2016Misuse of fire by a minor2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bee County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Pawnee: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Uranium, Molybdenum, Selenium. 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
Pawnee MineUranium, Molybdenum, SeleniumPast ProducerStratabound
Intercontinental Energy CorpUraniumProducer
Nell PlantUraniumProducer

Every working recorded in Bee County

Storms near this place

11 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pawnee in 11 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 6 hail, 3 tornado, 1 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2021Thunderstorm WindPawnee$15,000Bee County emergency management reported damage to barns and outbuildings from thunderstorms.
April 2017HailPawnee$5,000Public reported quarter sized hail in Pawnee through social media.
April 2025HailPawnee-A mPing report of 1.25 was submitted.
April 2025HailPawnee-Trained spotter reported 1.75 hail outside of Pawnee.
April 2025HailPawnee-Photos showing windows completely broken out on all sides of police vehicle from very large hail (estimated 2.75) while officer was in vehicle.
May 2012Tornado (EF0)Pawnee-Storm Chaser group observed a cyclic tornadic supercell produce a brief second tornado about 1.5 miles west of Pawnee, immediately to the north of the previous tornado and from a second wall cloud. The tornado touched down in an open field. No damage was observed.
May 2012Tornado (EF0)Pawnee-Storm chaser group observed a third and slightly larger tornado touch down northwest of Pawnee. The tornado touched down in an open field. No damage was observed.
May 2012Tornado (EF0)Pawnee-Storm chaser group observed a brief tornado about 3 miles southwest of Pawnee. The tornado touched down in an open field. No damage was observed.
February 1998HailPawnee-NWS Spotter report of dime sized hail.
February 1998HailPawnee-no account filed
February 1998Flash FloodPawnee-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Bee 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
Oaks3.4 miles9
Caesar5.5 miles10
Monteola5.6 miles10
Mineral8.9 miles9
Tulsita9.9 miles9
Pettus10.9 miles9
Tuleta12.3 miles9
Normanna14.4 miles9

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 PawneeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q981649The 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 1364905. 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.