Coyanosa, Texas facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Coyanosa, Texas
village
Location of Coyanosa, Texas
Country	United States
State	Texas
County	Pecos
Area
• Total	0.2 sq mi (0.5 km2)
• Land	0.2 sq mi (0.5 km2)
• Water	0.0 sq mi (0.0 km2)
Elevation	2,608 ft (795 m)
Population  (2020)
• Total	155
• Density	780/sq mi (310/km2)
Time zone	UTC-6 (Central (CST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-5 (CDT)
ZIP code	79730
Area code(s)	432
FIPS code	48-17408
GNIS feature ID	1355271

Coyanosa is a small desert village in Pecos County, located in West Texas, United States. It's part of the Permian Basin area. In 2020, about 155 people lived there.

A natural waterway called the Coyanosa Draw runs close to the west side of the village. Coyanosa has a few local businesses. You can find a food store, two Mexican restaurants, a public library, an RV park, and a post office.

The village is mentioned in the book "The man from Coyanosa" (1998) by Lauran Paine. People who live in Coyanosa are sometimes called Coyanosans. Coyanosa is also the main part of a special area called a census-designated place (CDP).

History of Coyanosa

Coyanosa started as a place for ranching in the early 1900s. A post office opened there in 1908, but it closed ten years later.

The village began to grow more in the 1950s. Many water wells were dug to help grow cotton on nearby farms. By 1958, about 200 people lived in Coyanosa. The post office reopened, and by the early 1960s, the population grew to 600.

However, in the mid-1970s, fuel prices went up. This made it too expensive to water the cotton farms, and many of them closed. Because of this, the number of people living in Coyanosa started to go down. By 1990, there were around 270 people. This number fell to 138 by the year 2000.

Where is Coyanosa?

Coyanosa is located at 31°14′26″N 103°03′58″W / 31.240532°N 103.066121°W / 31.240532; -103.066121. It is south of where Farm Roads 1776 and 1450 meet. This is about 26 miles northwest of Fort Stockton in the northwestern part of Pecos County.

In 2000, the village covered about 0.1 square miles (0.26 square kilometers) of land. By 2010, it had grown slightly to 0.2 square miles (0.52 square kilometers), all of it land.

Weather in Coyanosa

Coyanosa gets a lot of sunshine, with about 261 sunny days each year. On average, it gets about 2 inches of snow and 14 inches of rain every year.

July is the hottest month in Coyanosa. The average high temperature is 97.7°F (36.5°C), which is warmer than most places in Texas. January has the coldest nights, with an average temperature of 28.3°F (-2.1°C). This makes it one of the colder spots in Texas during winter.

People of Coyanosa

Since 1980, Coyanosa has been part of a "census-designated place" (CDP). This means the U.S. Census Bureau collects information for the whole area, not just the village itself.

In 2000, there were 138 people living in the CDP. There were 46 households and 39 families. The population density was about 1,153 people per square mile (445 people per square kilometer).

• Most people (100%) were White.
• About 85.5% of the population were Hispanic or Latino.

Many households had children. About 45.7% of households had children under 18 living with them. Most households (67.4%) were married couples. The average household had 3 people, and the average family had 3.18 people.

The median age in the CDP was 34 years old.

• 31.9% of people were under 18.
• 10.9% were between 18 and 24.
• 19.6% were between 25 and 44.
• 28.3% were between 45 and 64.
• 9.4% were 65 or older.

Education in Coyanosa

Students in Coyanosa attend schools in the Fort Stockton Independent School District.

Religion in Coyanosa

Coyanosa has one church, the St. Isidore Catholic Church. It is part of the Roman Catholic Diocese of San Angelo.

Oil in Coyanosa

Coyanosa is also located on top of an oil field. There are oil wells in the area that go down as deep as 2 miles (3.2 kilometers) into the ground.

See also

In Spanish: Coyanosa (Texas) para niños