Kerrville, Texas "Kerrville"
Kerrville, Texas Kerrville City Hall Kerrville City Hall Location of Kerrville, Texas Location of Kerrville, Texas Kerrville is a town/city in Kerr County, Texas, United States. It is the governmental center of county of Kerr County.
In 2009, the populace was 22,826. Kerrville is titled after James Kerr, a primary in the Texas Revolution, and friend of settler-founder Joshua Brown, who settled in the region to start a shingle-making camp. Being nestled in the hills of Texas Hill Country, Kerrville is best known for its beautiful parks that line the Guadalupe River, which runs directly through the city; other features include its close-by youth summer camps, hunting ranches, and RV parks.
It is also the home of Texas' Official State Arts & Crafts Fair, the Kerrville Folk Festival, Mooney Aviation Company, James Avery Jewelry, and Schreiner University.
Kerrville around 1900.
Archeological evidence suggests that humans dwelled in the region known as Kerrville as early as 10,000 years ago.
The settlement was referred to as "Brownsborough," but after the region was formally platted in 1856 by James Kerr, a primary in the Texas Revolution, the settlement was formally known as "Kerrville" and maintained a governmental center of county with Texas.
Schreiner rode Kerrville's newly found popularity, by serving Kerrville's mercantile needs.
Schreiner established a family-run empire that helped build Kerrville's early prosperity by owning almost all of Kerrville's company sectors, including freighting enterprises, retail, wholesale, banking, ranching, marketing, and brokering operations.
Schreiner's elegant downtown home, a Romanesque contemporary structure at 226 Earl Garrett Street, is the site of the Hill Country Museum in downtown Kerrville.
Charles Schreiner Mansion Historic Site and Education Center in downtown Kerrville was originally the home of Charles Schreiner, a rancher, businessman, banker, philanthropist, and captain of the Kerr County Home Guard.
The Civil War slowed Kerrville's development, but with the start of the Reconstruction era, Kerrville's economic boom and ethnic diversification continued anew as demand interval in San Antonio for lumber, produce, and craftsmen.
Kerrville's boom was also catalyzed by the combination of the cessation of Indian raids and the expansion into the company of cattle, sheep, and goat ranching.
In 1887, the San Antonio and Aransas Pass Railway reached Kerrville, and in 1889 the town incorporated, with an "Aldermanic" form of town/city government.
The Kerrville Water Works Company began to furnish water for town dwellers in 1894.
Kerrville adopted a "commission" form of town/city government in 1917, then changed to the "city-manager" form in 1928.
Kerrville has displayed steady populace growth throughout the 20th century, increasing from 1,423 inhabitants in 1900 to 2,353 in 1920, 5,572 in 1940, 8,901 in 1960, and 15,276 in 1980.
By the mid-1990s the Wall Street Journal described Kerrville as one of the wealthiest small suburbs in America.
By 1995, the city's official populace was still under 18,000, with another 20,000 citizens in mostly well-to-do residentiary areas south of the river and in the rest of the county.
Much of the expansion in populace included retirees and young professionals and semiprofessionals; for many years Kerrville also experienced momentous out-migration of young grownups raised in the area.
Kerrville is positioned at (20000)_region:US-TX 30 02 47 N 99 8 26 W. This is 58 miles (93 km) northwest of San Antonio and 85 miles (137 km) west of Austin.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 16.9 square miles (44 km2).
Kerrville Folk Festival is an annual summer festival which features folk musicians from around the nation and Canada. The Tax - Exempt - World.com website, which compiles Internal Revenue Service data, reported that in 2013, 465 distinct , active, tax exempt/nonprofit organizations in Kerrville, excluding credit unions, had a total income of $414.4 million and assets of $958.8 million. One example of a performing arts nonprofit organization in Kerrville would be Art 2 Heart.
Bridge over the Guadalupe River in Kerrville Kerrville is home to the annual Texas State Arts and Crafts Fair which features artisans and entertainers from around the state. The Texas Lions Camp and Echo Hill Ranch Summer Camp are also positioned in Kerrville.
Kerrville also hosted the Olympic Trials for shooting sports for the 2012 Summer Olympics at the Hill Country Shooting Center. Kerrville is served by the Kerrville Independent School District, which maintains four elementary schools (Tally, Nimitz, Starkey, and Daniels), two middle schools (BT Wilson 6th Grade and Peterson), and two high schools (Hill Country High School and Kerrville (TX) Tivy). Our Lady of the Hills Catholic High School and Notre Dame Catholic School and Grace Academy of Kerrville are also positioned in Kerrville, serving as the major alternative to the enhance school system.
Kerrville is home to Schreiner University, a private four-year college which was established in 1923 by an ex-Texas Ranger, Captain Charles Schreiner.
Jimmie Rodgers "the Father of Country Music" called Kerrville home for his family when he moved them there in 1929. Ace Reid Cowpokes cartoons, artist and humorist, lived in Kerrville from the early 1950s until his death in 1991 Konni Burton Republican member of the Texas State Senate from Tarrant County; born in Kerrville in 1963 Jesse Edward Grinstead author of Western fiction and beginning owner and editor of The Kerrville Mountain Sun and one-time mayor of Kerville Laird, president of Laredo Community College in Laredo, Texas, 1960 to 1974; retired to Kerrville and died there in 1986 Nugent former Kerr County attorney and former member of the Texas House of Representatives and Texas Railroad Commission Lou Halsell Rodenberger Texas author; lived in Kerrville in the 1940s when she was a journalist for the Kerrville Times Charles Schreiner, III, rancher and businessman who in 1964 established the Texas Longhorn Breeders Association of America; grandson of Charles Schreiner Speck, Arkansas politician, spent later years in Kerrville Nimitz lived in Kerrville from about age six until his admission to the Naval Academy while in his senior year at Tivy High School.
Kerr Arts and Cultural Center in Kerrville Kerrville Folk Festival Kerrville Kroc Center According to the Koppen Climate Classification system, Kerrville has a humid subtropical climate, abbreviated "Cfa" on climate maps. "Kerrville, Texas (TX 78028) profile: population, maps, real estate, averages, homes, statistics, relocation, travel, jobs, hospitals, schools, crime, moving, homes, news, sex offenders".
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"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
"Enumeration 2000 Profiles | Profile of General Demographic Characteristics | Geographic area: Kerrville city, Texas" (PDF).
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