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.
Population over time
3 figuresPyote 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 131 | |
| 2010 | 114 | -17 (-13%) |
| 2020 | 72 | -42 (-37%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 8 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.
- 1954 USGS Pecos quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Pecos quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Pyote West quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Kermit quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
27 since 2006Regional 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 use | 16 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 September 2011 | Natural | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 44 |
| 14 September 2011 | Natural | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 42 |
| 6 August 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 15 August 2007 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 27 July 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 16 July 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 15 July 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | 15 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 11 July 2007 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
31 since 1996Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2019 | Hail | Pyote | $5,000 | A 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 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pyote | $4,000 | Local 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 2019 | Hail | Pyote | $3,000 | A 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 2014 | Flash Flood | Pyote | $1,000 | Heavy 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 2025 | Hail | Pyote | - | A report of hen egg-sized hail was received from mPING. The time was estimated from radar. |
| May 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pyote | - | A thunderstorm produced an estimated 50 to 60 mph wind gust in Pyote. |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pyote | - | A thunderstorm moved across Ward County and produced a 58 mph wind gust seven miles west northwest of Pyote. |
| May 2015 | Hail | Pyote | - | 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 2015 | Hail | Pyote | - | A thunderstorm moved across Ward County and produced tennis ball sized hail near Pyote on I-20 between mile marker 59 and 62. |
| April 2006 | Tornado (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 2006 | Hail | Pyote | - | Quarter to half-dollar size hail fell in Pyote. |
| June 2005 | Hail | Pyote | - | A severe thunderstorm produced penny size hail in Pyote. |
| June 2004 | Hail | Pyote | - | Nickel size hail was reported along Interstate 20. |
| May 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pyote | - | Estimated by chaser. |
| June 1999 | Hail | Pyote | - | 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 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pyote | - | Outflow winds from a thunderstorm knocked down trees in Pyote. |
| May 2022 | Hail | Pyote | - | no account filed |
| April 2020 | Hail | Pyote | - | no account filed |
| May 2019 | Hail | Pyote | - | no account filed |
| May 2014 | Hail | Pyote | - | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Hail | Pyote | - | no account filed |
| June 2007 | Hail | Pyote | - | no account filed |
| June 2007 | Hail | Pyote | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Pyote | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Pyote | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pyote | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Pyote | - | no account filed |
| October 1998 | Hail | Pyote | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pyote | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pyote | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Hail | Pyote | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wickett | 7.1 miles | 8 | |
| Three Corner Windmill | 7.8 miles | 7 | |
| Thorntonville | 11.4 miles | 8 | |
| Monahans | 13.0 miles | 8 | |
| Barstow | 15.1 miles | 9 | |
| Royalty | 17.7 miles | 9 | |
| Grandfalls | 19.8 miles | 9 |
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 Pyote | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q973435 | 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 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.



