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Lytle is a city in the far northwest corner of Atascosa County, Texas, with city limits that also extend into neighboring Bexar and Medina counties.

Lytle sits on Interstate 35 about 30 minutes southwest of San Antonio and is part of the San Antonio metropolitan area.

The town was named for John T. Lytle, a rancher and trail driver who was active in the area in the 1860s and possibly as early as 1846.

Lytle grew up around a railroad station established in 1882 on land near the Lytle-McDaniel Ranch, and a post office followed in 1883.

Lytle's first school was built on property owned by Fitch S. Adams under a verbal agreement that the land would belong to the school as long as the school building stood there.

In its early years Lytle was a shipping point and retail center for area ranchers and corn and cotton farmers, and coal mining added to the local economy in the late 1890s.

The Lytle State Bank was chartered in 1910, and by 1914 the town had about 600 residents and its own newspaper, the Herald.

Lytle incorporated on December 8, 1948.

The 2020 census counted 2,914 residents in Lytle, up from 2,492 in 2010.

Lytle had 1,013 households at the 2020 census, and nearly 4 in 10 of them — 39.3% — had children under the age of 18 living at home.