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Pyote, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Barstow-Pyote census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79777. The Survey maps it on the Pyote West quadrangle. 72 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,625 feet above sea level.

Pyote within Ward County

Population over time

3 figures

Pyote fell from 131 to 72 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
2000131
2010114-17 (-13%)
202072-42 (-37%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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

27 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Pyote between 2006 and 2011, burning about 287 acres in total. 3 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
Equipment and vehicle use16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Natural3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Smoking1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
29 September 2011Natural3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service44
14 September 2011Natural2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service42
6 August 2008Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
15 August 2007Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
27 July 2008Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
16 July 2008Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
15 July 2006Equipment and vehicle use15 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
11 July 2007Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ward County

Storms near this place

31 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pyote in 31 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 21 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 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
May 2019HailPyote$5,000A thunderstorm moved across Ward County and produced tennis ball sized hail in Pyote. The hail resulted in broken wind shields. The cost of damage is a very rough estimate.
May 2005Thunderstorm WindPyote$4,000Local officials reported that severe thunderstorm winds blew down a utility pole in Pyote.During the early morning hours of the 26th, an organized line of convection evolved into a bow-shaped complex and propagated southeastward across the Upper Trans Pecos region of west Texas. A widespread swath of severe winds accompanied the bow over Loving, Ward, and Winkler Counties. Significant damage occurred in Loving County, where three trailer houses located at remote oil fields were destroyed by winds estimated at 80 MPH. Three oil field workers were injured. In addition, at least twenty-five power poles were blown down by the winds.
March 2019HailPyote$3,000A thunderstorm moved across Ward County and produced baseball sized hail seven miles north of Pecos. Baseball sized hail was observed along County Road 200 north of Pecos. The hail severely damaged a vehicle. The cost of damage is a very rough estimate.
September 2014Flash FloodPyote$1,000Heavy rain fell across Ward County and produced flash flooding in Pyote. Water was several feet deep over Farm to Market road 2355 in Pyote. The cost of damage is a very rough estimate.
April 2025HailPyote-A report of hen egg-sized hail was received from mPING. The time was estimated from radar.
May 2021Thunderstorm WindPyote-A thunderstorm produced an estimated 50 to 60 mph wind gust in Pyote.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindPyote-A thunderstorm moved across Ward County and produced a 58 mph wind gust seven miles west northwest of Pyote.
May 2015HailPyote-A thunderstorm moved across Ward County and produced half dollar sized hail near Pyote. The hail was covering I-20 between mile markers 58 and 66.
May 2015HailPyote-A thunderstorm moved across Ward County and produced tennis ball sized hail near Pyote on I-20 between mile marker 59 and 62.
April 2006Tornado (F0)Pyote-A staff member at the West Texas State School reported a tornado touched down briefly in open rangeland to the northwest of the school.
April 2006HailPyote-Quarter to half-dollar size hail fell in Pyote.
June 2005HailPyote-A severe thunderstorm produced penny size hail in Pyote.
June 2004HailPyote-Nickel size hail was reported along Interstate 20.
May 1999Thunderstorm WindPyote-Estimated by chaser.
June 1999HailPyote-A hailstorm that sat over I-20 in Ward County coated the highway with ice. An 18-wheeler truck overturned on the slick highway near Mile Marker 58.
September 1996Thunderstorm WindPyote-Outflow winds from a thunderstorm knocked down trees in Pyote.
May 2022HailPyote-no account filed
April 2020HailPyote-no account filed
May 2019HailPyote-no account filed
May 2014HailPyote-no account filed
May 2007HailPyote-no account filed
June 2007HailPyote-no account filed
June 2007HailPyote-no account filed
June 2005HailPyote-no account filed
June 2002HailPyote-no account filed
May 2001Thunderstorm WindPyote-no account filed
May 1999HailPyote-no account filed
October 1998HailPyote-no account filed
June 1996Thunderstorm WindPyote-no account filed
May 1996Thunderstorm WindPyote-no account filed
May 1996HailPyote-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ward 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
Wickett7.1 miles8
Three Corner Windmill7.8 miles7
Thorntonville11.4 miles8
Monahans13.0 miles8
Barstow15.1 miles9
Royalty17.7 miles9
Grandfalls19.8 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 PyoteAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q973435The 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 1365876. 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.