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Poynor, Texas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the LaRue-Poynor census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75782. It stands on Mill Branch. The Survey maps it on the Poynor quadrangle. 287 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 440 feet above sea level.

Poynor within Henderson County

Population over time

2 figures

Poynor fell from 305 to 287 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
2010305
2020287-18 (-6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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

136 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 136 fires within 5 miles of Poynor between 1992 and 2018, burning about 1,363 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 5 were 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 burning72
Missing data/not specified/undetermined28
Equipment and vehicle use20
Natural5
Arson/incendiarism5
Smoking4
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Recreation and ceremony1

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 September 2015Equipment and vehicle use8.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service7101
28 September 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceDAVIS FIRE
23 September 2000Natural40 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 560
21 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 114
2 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 454
2 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined75 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
17 September 1997Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
16 September 1997Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Henderson County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Poynor: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. 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
Poynor DepositsIronOccurrenceGoethite, Hematite

Every working recorded in Henderson County

Storms near this place

10 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Poynor in 10 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 5 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 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
December 2006Tornado (F1)Poynor$2,000,000At least two dozen houses were damaged in Poynor Friday night as a tornado ripped through the community. Dozens of sheds, barns, and storage units were demolished. Significant damage to roofs and garages occurred at residences, while dozens of fences and trees were blown down. At least one home was considered a total loss. A metal support beam from a destroyed storage unit was driven through a truck, and the truck was then rolled onto its side by the strong winds. Numerous other vehicles were rolled and damaged by debris. In addition, houses which had portions of their roofs removed sustained heavy water damage from the rainfall following the tornado.
March 2025HailPoynor$7,000Broadcast media reported golf ball sized hail in Berryville.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindPoynor$5,000A trained spotter reported that a 3-inch diameter tree and a few power poles were blown down in the city of Poyner, TX.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindPoynor$1,000Several large trees were damaged by thunderstorm winds on a property in the Poynor area.
July 2012HailPoynor-One inch hail fell near Poynor.
April 2005HailPoynor-Baseball size hail reported.
June 1999Flash FloodPoynor-Water was reported over Highway 315, north of Poyner. The water came from thunderstorms in the area.
April 1997Thunderstorm WindPoynor-Strong winds blew down a tree.
March 2000HailPoynor-no account filed
April 1996HailPoynor-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Henderson 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
Fincastle4.1 miles15
LaRue5.0 miles15
Coffee City6.0 miles15
Berryville6.8 miles15
New York7.5 miles15
Moore Station7.6 miles15
Sunrise Shores9.0 miles15
Baxter10.3 miles15

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 PoynorAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q975145The 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 1344473. 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.