Junction, Texas Junction, Texas Junction City Hall Junction City Hall Location of Junction, Texas Location of Junction, Texas Junction is a town/city in and the governmental center of county of Kimble County, Texas, United States. The populace was 2,618 at the 2000 census.
Junction is positioned at 30 29 23 N 99 46 17 W (30.489772, -99.771335), approximately 105 miles (169 km) northwest of San Antonio and 120 miles (190 km) west of Austin in central Kimble County. According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 2.3 square miles (6.0 km2), of which, 2.3 square miles (6.0 km2) of it is territory and 0.44% is veiled by water.
Junction is titled for its locale at the confluence of the North and South Llano Rivers. The improve was established in 1876 after the organization of Kimble County earlier that year. The initial town site was titled Denman after Marcellus Denman, who had surveyed and platted the new community.
The name Denman was quickly changed to Junction City.
In late 1876, Junction City won the designation of governmental center of county from the unsuccessful and flood-prone settlement of Kimbleville.
Around 300 citizens were living in Junction City in 1882.
The West Texas, Kimble County's first newspaper, began publishing in 1882.
In 1894, Junction City became known simply as Junction. Infrastructure improvements marked the decade of the 1890s.
Businessman Ernest Holekamp provided the city's first waterworks with a canal dug from the South Llano to Junction in 1895.
Junction continued to quickly grow, with around 800 inhabitants living in the improve in 1910.
A town/city officers' election took place on October 13, 1927, with Ernest Holekamp propel as Junction's first mayor. During the mid-1920s, highway connections from Junction to Menard and San Angelo were made available.
Junction was the chief shipping and commercial center of Kimble County, as well as a tourist resort and hunting center.
In the mid-1940s, the cedar-oil company enhanced the economy, but the city's expansion slowed. Throughout the latter half of the 20th century, Junction's populace continued to hover around 2,600.
The town/city of Junction is a "Type A" General Law municipality under Texas law.
Electric power for the town/city of Junction is provided by AEP/West Texas Utilities, while member-owned Pedernales Electric distributes power to non-urban Kimble County.
Public education in the town/city of Junction is provided by the Junction Independent School District .
Junction is home to the Texas Tech University Center at Junction, a satellite school of Texas Tech University in Lubbock.
Andrew Murr, Stevenson's grandson, who was born two years after Stevenson's death, is the incoming 2015 Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives from Kimble County, and the former county judge, posts that Stevenson himself also once held.
Clinton Manges, South Texas businessman, spent some of his impoverished childhood in Junction where his grandfather renovated mattresses. Major celebrations in Junction include the Billie Sale and Parade held in August, and the annual Kimble Kow Kick, which takes place in September. Fisher Museum, homed in the Kimble County Library, contains an exact duplicate of the Washington office of the long-time Congressman who represented the Junction area.
Junction is home to a several parks, including the 507-acre (2.05 km2) South Llano State Park.
The Fort Mc - Kavett State Historic Site is also positioned near Junction.
While coaching at Texas A&M University, Paul "Bear" Bryant's 10-day summer football camp was held in Junction in 1954.
According to the Koppen climate classification system, Junction has a humid subtropical climate, Cfa on climate maps. City of Junction, Texas - Official site.
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His family moved south to Junction, where his grandfather renovated mattresses; young Clinton rode with him from ranch to ranch to pick up old bedding.
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Cities in Texas - Cities in Kimble County, Texas - County seats in Texas - 1876 establishments in Texas
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