Poth, Texas
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1936 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Poth census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78147. The Survey maps it on the Poth quadrangle. 1,819 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 404 feet above sea level.
Population over time
3 figuresPoth fell from 1,850 to 1,819 between 2000 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 1,850 | |
| 2010 | 1,908 | +58 (+3%) |
| 2020 | 1,819 | -89 (-5%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 10 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.
- 1936 USGS Floresville quadrangle1:62500
- 1954 USGS San Antonio quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS San Antonio quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Poth quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS San Antonio quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
Fires near this place
9 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Poth between 2006 and 2011, burning about 96 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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 | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 May 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 25 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 19 May 2006 | Debris and open burning | 25 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 19 March 2006 | Debris and open burning | 20 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 6 February 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 4 February 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 20 February 2011 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | BUS LOOP 181 |
| 20 February 2011 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | BUS 181 REKINDLE |
| 29 December 2007 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
19 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Poth in 19 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 6 flash flood, 6 hail, 4 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2020 | Flash Flood | Poth | $1,000,000 | Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that led to flash flooding closing CR 220 west of Poth. The Emergency Manager also reported that there was damage to the road. |
| August 2007 | Flash Flood | Poth | $200,000 | The area of extremely heavy rainfall associated with the remains of Tropical Storm Erin continued northwestward into Wilson County. General rain totals over the county varied from 3 to 4 inches. The highest amounts were 8 inches and stretched northwestward from Floresville to the Bexar County line. Roads across the northwest part of the county were closed due to flash flooding, including FM1303, FM536, and FM2579. |
| August 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Poth | $50,000 | A barn was destroyed by a microburst with estimated winds of 80 mph. Debris from the barn was thrown hundreds of yards downwind. An adjacent house also sustained shingle damage and part of the chimney collapsed. Two trees sustained significant damage. |
| February 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Poth | $30,000 | High winds blew down several trees in the Poth area. |
| May 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Poth | $20,000 | Damaging thunderstorm winds blew the roofs off eight homes in Floresville and caused widespread window damage. The roof was blown off buildings at the Boening Dairy between Floresville and Pleasanton in southwest Wilson County. Trees were also leveled by the storm. Over 10,000 acres of corn, cotton, milo, vegetables and watermelons were destroyed, mostly in the western part of the county. |
| July 2008 | Tornado (EF0) | Poth | $10,000 | The Wilson County sheriff reported a tornado along CR202W which twisted an oak tree, lifted a car port, and damaged some gutters outside of Poth. |
| April 2024 | Hail | Poth | - | A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail near the intersection of Hwy 181 and Westmeyer St. in Poth. |
| April 2024 | Hail | Poth | - | A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail at the Poth Fire Department. |
| March 2022 | Hail | Poth | - | A thunderstorm produced half dollar size hail in Poth. |
| May 2015 | Tornado (EF0) | Poth | - | A NWS storm survey team concluded a tornado touched down south of Floresville in Wilson County. A car port awning of a business was ripped off. A few tree limbs were also reported down. Peak winds were estimated at 70 mph. |
| March 2015 | Flash Flood | Poth | - | Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that caused flash flooding. County Road 201 between FM541 and FM250 near Poth was closed due to water over the roadway. |
| April 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Poth | - | The Wilson County emergency manager reported several large tree limbs snapped by strong winds just west of Highway 181 between Poth and Falls City. |
| April 2013 | Hail | Poth | - | A thunderstorm produced hail for 15 minutes the largest of which was golf ball size. |
| May 2012 | Flash Flood | Poth | - | Thunderstorms produced 5 inches of rain near Poth prompting the high water rescue team to be called in. |
| May 2012 | Flash Flood | Poth | - | Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that flooded numerous small roads in Wilson County. |
| April 2013 | Hail | Poth | - | no account filed |
| February 1998 | Hail | Poth | - | no account filed |
| February 1998 | Funnel Cloud | Poth | - | no account filed |
| September 1996 | Flash Flood | Poth | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ridout | 3.3 miles | 10 | |
| Sunnyside | 5.1 miles | 9 | |
| Dewees | 5.9 miles | 10 | |
| Floresville | 5.9 miles | 10 | |
| Plummer Crossing | 7.1 miles | 10 | |
| Kosciusko | 7.4 miles | 10 | |
| Three Oaks | 7.9 miles | 12 | |
| Darilek | 8.0 miles | 10 |
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 Poth | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q982651 | 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 1365682. 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.




