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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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Poteet within Atascosa County

Population over time

2 figures

Poteet 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.

YearPeople Change
20103,260
20202,795-465 (-14%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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.

Photographs

8 of 9 photographs shown, 1939 to 2014

Taken 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.

Wildflower field near Poteet in Atascosa County, Texas
Wildflower field near Poteet in Atascosa County, Texas
Highsmith, Carol M, 2014. Library of Congress
Scene from the "Bad Company Rodeo," part of the annual Poteet Strawberry Festival in Poteet, a small city in Atascosa County, near San Antonio, Texas
Scene from the "Bad Company Rodeo," part of the annual Poteet Strawberry Festival in Poteet, a small city in Atascosa County, near San Antonio, Texas
Highsmith, Carol M, 2014. Library of Congress
Real estate office. Poteet, Texas
Real estate office. Poteet, Texas
Lee, Russell, 1939. Library of Congress
Naomi Brander, of San Antonio, aboard her horse Punch at the annual Poteet Strawberry Festival in Poteet, a small city in Atascosa County, Texas, near San Antonio. Naomi was one of the youngest contestants in the festival's "Bad Company Rodeo"
Naomi Brander, of San Antonio, aboard her horse Punch at the annual Poteet Strawberry Festival in Poteet, a small city in Atascosa County, Texas, near San Antonio. Naomi was one of the youngest contestants in the festival's "Bad Company Rodeo"
Highsmith, Carol M, 2014. Library of Congress
Bronc rider about to take a spill at the rodeo in Poteet, Texas
Bronc rider about to take a spill at the rodeo in Poteet, Texas
Highsmith, Carol M, 2014. Library of Congress
Scene from the "Bad Company Rodeo," part of the annual Poteet Strawberry Festival in Poteet, a small city in Atascosa County, Texas, near San Antonio
Scene from the "Bad Company Rodeo," part of the annual Poteet Strawberry Festival in Poteet, a small city in Atascosa County, Texas, near San Antonio
Highsmith, Carol M, 2014. Library of Congress
Scene from the "Bad Company Rodeo," part of the annual Poteet Strawberry Festival in Poteet, a small city in Atascosa County, near San Antonio, Texas
Scene from the "Bad Company Rodeo," part of the annual Poteet Strawberry Festival in Poteet, a small city in Atascosa County, near San Antonio, Texas
Highsmith, Carol M, 2014. Library of Congress
Naomi Brander, of San Antonio, aboard her horse Punch at the annual Poteet Strawberry Festival in Poteet, a small city in Atascosa County, Texas, near San Antonio. Naomi was one of the youngest contestants in the festival's "Bad Company Rodeo"
Naomi Brander, of San Antonio, aboard her horse Punch at the annual Poteet Strawberry Festival in Poteet, a small city in Atascosa County, Texas, near San Antonio. Naomi was one of the youngest contestants in the festival's "Bad Company Rodeo"
Highsmith, Carol M, 2014. Library of Congress

Every photograph of Atascosa County

Fires near this place

237 since 2005

Regional 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 burning98
Missing data/not specified/undetermined91
Equipment and vehicle use36
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Smoking4
Recreation and ceremony2
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
8 September 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceUNKNOWN
7 September 2008Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
5 September 2014Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2145
5 September 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceKASEY BARTEX
28 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceMELVIN MYERS
28 September 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 306
25 September 2011Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceMEADOWS & HWY 16S
23 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceKEITH BURRIS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Atascosa County

Storms near this place

23 since 1993

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 1997Thunderstorm WindPoteet$80,000no account filed
April 2007Thunderstorm WindPoteet$75,000A 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 1993Thunderstorm WindPoteet$50,000The Sheriff's Office reported several mobile homes damaged in Poteet.
June 2003Tornado (F0)Poteet$40,000The 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 1999Thunderstorm WindPoteet$40,000The Atascosa County Sheriff's Department reported power lines blown down by high winds just east of Poteet
June 2003Thunderstorm WindPoteet$30,000The Atascosa Sheriff's Department reported that severe thunderstorm winds blew down trees near Poteet in the north central part of the county.
February 1998Thunderstorm WindPoteet$20,000no account filed
August 1996Thunderstorm WindPoteet$10,000no account filed
May 2019Thunderstorm WindPoteet$5,000There was reported tree and roof damage in the city of Poteet due to high winds associated with a thunderstorm.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindPoteet$500A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 60 mph which knocked down several large tree limbs.
January 2024HailPoteet-A thunderstorm produced 1.5 inch diameter hail in Poteet.
May 2024HailPoteet-A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail in Poteet.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindPoteet-A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 70 mph that blew down powerlines in Poteet along Hwy 16.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindPoteet-A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 70 mph that uprooted a tree on Ave. I in Poteet.
July 2007Flash FloodPoteet-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 2006HailPoteet-no account filed
May 2006HailPoteet-no account filed
November 2004HailPoteet-no account filed
May 2001HailPoteet-no account filed
April 2000HailPoteet-no account filed
February 1998HailPoteet-no account filed
May 1995HailPoteet-no account filed
May 1995HailPoteet-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Atascosa 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
Ditto3.8 miles9
Amphion4.6 miles8
Leming5.0 miles9
Espey6.5 miles9
Las Gallinas6.5 miles9
Rossville6.9 miles9
Pleasanton6.9 miles9
Anchorage7.5 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 PoteetAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q973174The 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.