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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.

Poth within Wilson County

Population over time

3 figures

Poth 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.

YearPeople Change
20001,850
20101,908+58 (+3%)
20201,819-89 (-5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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

9 since 2006

Regional 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 burning4
Equipment and vehicle use2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
24 May 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
19 May 2006Debris and open burning25 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
19 March 2006Debris and open burning20 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
6 February 2006Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
4 February 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
20 February 2011Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBUS LOOP 181
20 February 2011Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBUS 181 REKINDLE
29 December 2007Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wilson County

Storms near this place

19 since 1995

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 2020Flash FloodPoth$1,000,000Thunderstorms 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 2007Flash FloodPoth$200,000The 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 2008Thunderstorm WindPoth$50,000A 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 1998Thunderstorm WindPoth$30,000High winds blew down several trees in the Poth area.
May 1995Thunderstorm WindPoth$20,000Damaging 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 2008Tornado (EF0)Poth$10,000The 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 2024HailPoth-A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail near the intersection of Hwy 181 and Westmeyer St. in Poth.
April 2024HailPoth-A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail at the Poth Fire Department.
March 2022HailPoth-A thunderstorm produced half dollar size hail in Poth.
May 2015Tornado (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 2015Flash FloodPoth-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 2015Thunderstorm WindPoth-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 2013HailPoth-A thunderstorm produced hail for 15 minutes the largest of which was golf ball size.
May 2012Flash FloodPoth-Thunderstorms produced 5 inches of rain near Poth prompting the high water rescue team to be called in.
May 2012Flash FloodPoth-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that flooded numerous small roads in Wilson County.
April 2013HailPoth-no account filed
February 1998HailPoth-no account filed
February 1998Funnel CloudPoth-no account filed
September 1996Flash FloodPoth-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Wilson 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
Ridout3.3 miles10
Sunnyside5.1 miles9
Dewees5.9 miles10
Floresville5.9 miles10
Plummer Crossing7.1 miles10
Kosciusko7.4 miles10
Three Oaks7.9 miles12
Darilek8.0 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 PothAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q982651The 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.