Poteet, Texas
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Poteet census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78065. The Survey maps it on the Poteet quadrangle. 2,795 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 446 feet above sea level.
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Population over time
2 figuresPoteet fell from 3,260 to 2,795 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 | 3,260 | |
| 2020 | 2,795 | -465 (-14%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 9 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.
- 1954 USGS San Antonio quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS San Antonio quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS Poteet quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS San Antonio quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
Photographs
8 of 9 photographs shown, 1939 to 2014Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.
Highsmith, Carol M, 2014. Library of Congress
Highsmith, Carol M, 2014. Library of Congress
Lee, Russell, 1939. Library of Congress
Highsmith, Carol M, 2014. Library of Congress
Highsmith, Carol M, 2014. Library of Congress
Highsmith, Carol M, 2014. Library of Congress
Highsmith, Carol M, 2014. Library of Congress
Highsmith, Carol M, 2014. Library of Congress
Every photograph of Atascosa County
Fires near this place
237 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 237 fires within 5 miles of Poteet between 2005 and 2020, burning about 948 acres in total. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 98 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 91 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 36 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 5 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2015 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | UNKNOWN |
| 7 September 2008 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 5 September 2014 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 2145 |
| 5 September 2014 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | KASEY BARTEX |
| 28 September 2016 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | MELVIN MYERS |
| 28 September 2016 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CR 306 |
| 25 September 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | MEADOWS & HWY 16S |
| 23 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | KEITH BURRIS |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
23 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Poteet in 23 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 11 thunderstorm wind, 10 hail, 1 tornado, 1 flash flood. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Poteet | $80,000 | no account filed |
| April 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Poteet | $75,000 | A severe thunderstorm struck Atascosa County with wind gusts estimated near 70 knots, damaging and rolling a mobile home and blowing down trees just northwest of Poteet. |
| October 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Poteet | $50,000 | The Sheriff's Office reported several mobile homes damaged in Poteet. |
| June 2003 | Tornado (F0) | Poteet | $40,000 | The public reported that a short-lived and small tornado touched down west of Poteet shortly after the strong winds had begun. The tornado knocked over several trees, then lifted up and dissipated. |
| May 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Poteet | $40,000 | The Atascosa County Sheriff's Department reported power lines blown down by high winds just east of Poteet |
| June 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Poteet | $30,000 | The Atascosa Sheriff's Department reported that severe thunderstorm winds blew down trees near Poteet in the north central part of the county. |
| February 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Poteet | $20,000 | no account filed |
| August 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Poteet | $10,000 | no account filed |
| May 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Poteet | $5,000 | There was reported tree and roof damage in the city of Poteet due to high winds associated with a thunderstorm. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Poteet | $500 | A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 60 mph which knocked down several large tree limbs. |
| January 2024 | Hail | Poteet | - | A thunderstorm produced 1.5 inch diameter hail in Poteet. |
| May 2024 | Hail | Poteet | - | A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail in Poteet. |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Poteet | - | A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 70 mph that blew down powerlines in Poteet along Hwy 16. |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Poteet | - | A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 70 mph that uprooted a tree on Ave. I in Poteet. |
| July 2007 | Flash Flood | Poteet | - | A cluster of thunderstorms stretching from near Pearsall in Frio County across southern Bexar County and northern Atascosa County, through Seguin and Stockdale to Gonzales produced general 2 to 3 inch rain totals and spotty flash flooding problems. Highest rain amounts in Atascosa County were 5 inches northwest of Charlotte. SH173, FM1549, and FM2504 were closed due to high water. |
| May 2006 | Hail | Poteet | - | no account filed |
| May 2006 | Hail | Poteet | - | no account filed |
| November 2004 | Hail | Poteet | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | Poteet | - | no account filed |
| April 2000 | Hail | Poteet | - | no account filed |
| February 1998 | Hail | Poteet | - | no account filed |
| May 1995 | Hail | Poteet | - | no account filed |
| May 1995 | Hail | Poteet | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ditto | 3.8 miles | 9 | |
| Amphion | 4.6 miles | 8 | |
| Leming | 5.0 miles | 9 | |
| Espey | 6.5 miles | 9 | |
| Las Gallinas | 6.5 miles | 9 | |
| Rossville | 6.9 miles | 9 | |
| Pleasanton | 6.9 miles | 9 | |
| Anchorage | 7.5 miles | 9 |
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 Poteet | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q973174 | 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 1365680. 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.



