Lytle is a city in Atascosa, Bexar, and Medina counties in the U.S. state of Texas. The population was 2,492 at the 2010 census. It is ration of the San Antonio Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Lytle grew out of 321 acres located regarding the head of Atascosa Creek which were patented to Henry Volkner in 1856. Volkner was the assignee of Mahan Matter, and the patent was signed by Elisha M. Pease, Governor of Texas. In 1870, Volkner sold the 321 acres for $175 to Fitch S. Adams. Lytle’s first school was built upon Adams’ property considering a verbal taking office that as long as the teacher building was there, the land on which it stood would link the school.

In 1881, officials from the International–Great Northern Railroad made an appointment with B. G. Andrews in which he was to give land for a further station (“Andrews Station”). There was some misunderstanding in making the deed, and the clash ended taking into account Mr. Andrews refusing to give in the property deed. Traildriver and cattleman Captain John Thomas Lytle (1844–1907) then secured house some three miles southwest of Andrews Station, and one hours of daylight in 1882 railroad employees loaded Andrews Station on two flat cars and moved it to the gift site close the Lytle-McDaniel Ranch, which became known as Lytle or Lytle Station. When a proclaim office was arranged in 1883, the town furthermore consisted of a general store, a bar, and a casketmaker named W. J. Garnand, who as a consequence became the first postmaster. An undated newspaper clipping entitled “Pioneer of Lytle” reads, “…W. J. Garnand was the first man to find in the town of Lytle. That was in 1883. He was the first postmaster there and has been a leading citizen whatever the time.”

In 1884, Lytle had a population of fifty and the town included a hold church, a district school, a hotel, and a physician. By 1892 the population doubled and grown to count four general stores, two livestock breeders, and a Methodist church. Lytle’s forward settlers were primarily engaged in gardening and in raising cattle. Over time, Lytle became a major shipping lessening for cattle, and for years the old buildup pens and loading chute were aware landmarks until they were removed in the late 1960’s and in front 1970’s. Cotton and corn were moreover two important crops, and cotton gins were located in both Lytle and in now-abandoned Benton City. In the late 1890s, coal mining also contributed to the local economy. By 1896, the population had risen to 150. By 1914 the town had grown to count telephone service, another general store, two lumberyards, and a weekly newspaper called The Herald, and the population had grown to 600. Lytle School had 127 students. During the Great Depression, the scholarly was improved as allowance of a WPA project.