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History

 

POTEET, TEXAS. Poteet is on Farm Road 476 and State Highway 16, twenty miles south of San Antonio in north central Atascosa County. It was named for its first postmaster, Francis Marion Poteet, who operated the post office out of his blacksmith shop beginning in 1886. The town had a cotton gin, a gristmill, and a wagon maker in 1892. In 1896 Mr. and Mrs. Henry T. Mumme settled in the area, on land that had been part of the original Joaquín de la Garza land grant, and opened a general store. Mumme succeeded Poteet as postmaster and in 1904 found artesian wells in the area; this ready source of water made the location more attractive to farmers.

 

In 1910 the Mummes also donated land for the new town site, three miles southwest of the original post office, and built a new store there. Mumme began to grow strawberries on the irrigated land in 1911, and strawberries rapidly became one of the town's major claims to fame. A three-day strawberry festival began in Poteet in 1948 and during the early 1990s was still being held there each year.

 

Poteet is an incorporated city with a mayor-alderman form of government. In 1990 its population was 3,206. In addition to its fame as the "Strawberry City," Poteet achieved nationwide recognition in the 1950s when Milton Caniff, author of the "Steve Canyon" comic strip, named one of his characters after the town. The population was 3,305 in 2000.

 

Poteet is a city in Atascosa County, Texas, United States. The population was 3,305 at the 2000 census. It is part of the San Antonio Metropolitan Statistical Area.

 

Poteet is known for its "Poteet Strawberry Festival" and being the birthplace of country singer George Strait. In the comic strip Steve Canyon, by Milton Caniff, Steve's daughter is named "Poteet" after the town in Texas.

 

Geography

 

Poteet is located at 29°2′23″N 98°34′27″W / 29.03972°N 98.57417°W / 29.03972; -98.57417 (29.039751, -98.574292).  According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 1.5 square miles (3.9 km²), all of it land.

 

Education

 

Poteet is served by the Poteet Independent School District.

 

 

 

 

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