Pflugerville City Hall Pflugerville City Hall Location of Pflugerville, Texas Pflugerville / flu rv l/ is a town/city in Travis County, Texas with a small portion in Williamson County.
Pflugerville is a suburb of Austin and part of the Austin Round Rock San Marcos Metropolitan Statistical Area.
3.1 Pflugerville Community Development Corporation Pflugerville is positioned at 30 26 46 N 97 37 26 W (30.446122, -97.623989), 14 miles (23 km) northeast of downtown Austin along FM 1825 (Pecan Street) in northern Travis County. Pflugerville is situated 15 miles (24 km) northeast of the Colorado River.
According to the 2010 United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total territory area of 22.32 square miles. And Pflugerville has 40.39 square miles in the extraterritorial jurisdiction. The town/city has one body of water - Lake Pflugerville - created in 2005 to serve as a water reservoir and recreation area, and two creeks, Gilleland Creek and Wilbarger Creek.
Public education in the town/city of Pflugerville is provided by the Pflugerville Independent School District (Pf - ISD).
The precinct encompasses all or part of six municipalities including Pflugerville, Austin, Coupland, Hutto, Manor and Round Rock. As of the 2016-2017 school year, Pf - ISD has an enrollment of approximately 24,000 students and directed 3 high schools (Pflugerville, Connally, and Hendrickson), 6 middle schools, 20 elementary schools, and 2 alternative campuses.
While a mile stretch of Interstate 35 is often referred by small-town media and inhabitants as "in Pflugerville", the town/city of Austin actually controls this land, either as part of the town/city or through its extraterritorial jurisdiction.
In November 2006, the first parts of a central Texas tollway fitness opened, including State Highway 130 and State Highway 45 increasing accessibility to Pflugerville.
David's Health - Care 24-hour emergency care facility. With its close adjacency to the Austin Executive Airport and SH 130, the connectivity of the region is attracting businesses and bringing jobs to Pflugerville.
Before the Stone Hill evolution and the close-by Pfluger Crossing (a evolution that includes a Wal-Mart Supercenter) opened their first stores in 2007, the city's two biggest retailers were an Albertsons grocery store (which directed from 1996 to 2006) near Pflugerville High School and an H-E-B grocery store (operating since 2000) east of downtown.
Pflugerville Community Development Corporation The Pflugerville Community Development Corporation (PCDC) has overseen economic evolution for the town/city since late 2009 as a Texas 4 - B Economic Development Corporation that collects a one-half cent revenue tax off taxable goods purchased in the City of Pflugerville for the purpose of promoting economic evolution in Pflugerville.
The PCDC is a separate entity that reports to City Council and is the economic arm for Pflugerville.
On August 6, 2013, the town/city agreed on a evolution deal with Harvest Family Entertainment to build the sixth and biggest Hawaiian Falls water park just south of the intersection of State Highway 130 and State Highway 45 athwart from Stone Hill Town Center.
The proposed $21-million water park would consist of a 15-acre water park along with a 5-acre adventure park that would turn into Hawaiian Falls Pflugerville the biggest water park in the company. Hawaiian Falls Pflugerville opened June 2014.
The operator of Hawaiian Falls water and adventure parks defaulted on the October 2015 payment for Hawaiian Falls Pflugerville and requested a deferment. Hawaiian Falls' operator caught up with payments by December 18, 2015. The operator again defaulted on lease payments beginning in September 2016. The town/city began negotiations with Typhoon Texas to take over the water park lease. Pflugerville's postal service opened in 1893 with Louis Bohls serving as its first postmaster. The populace reached approximately 250 amid the mid-1890s and a small downtown advanced even though most inhabitants did their branching and shipping in Round Rock, eight miles (13 km) to the northwest. Wooden buildings were erected on Main Street and Pecan Street, many by Conrad Pfluger one of Henry Pfluger, Sr.'s eight sons.
In 1904, the Missouri Kansas Texas Railroad (MKT) instead of its track between Georgetown and Austin, passing just outside Pflugerville.
Its close adjacency to the line, however, caused the improve to expanded rapidly. On February 19, 1904, the town site of Pflugerville was platted by George Pfluger and his son, Albert, dedicating streets and alleys for the town from the Alexander Walter and C.
On June 8, 1906, the Farmers State Bank of Pflugerville opened with William Pfluger as its president and A.W.
County records listed the settlement as Pflugerville's Colored Addition in April 1910. The first German Day celebration in Pflugerville took place on May 29, 1910.
During that period, a several area school districts merged with Pflugerville High School. Around 580 citizens lived in the improve in 1930.
In the years immediately after World War II, the improve lost around a quarter of its populace as people moved to Austin and other larger metros/cities with greater employment opportunities. Even with the challenges of populace loss and limited economic development, Pflugerville managed to survive.
The improve attained national consideration when the Pflugerville Panthers won 55 consecutive football games from 1958 to 1962.
Pflugerville's populace began to comebackafter its incorporation and by the 1970 census, it stood at 549.
During most of the 1980s, new evolution made Pflugerville one of the quickest burgeoning cities in Texas.
Estimates from the late 1980s were as high as 3,900. Although the boom was slowed by a statewide recession, Pflugerville's populace interval to 4,444 in 1990.
Pflugerville and communities such as Cedar Park, Round Rock, and Georgetown came to or more than doubled in size by the next census in 2000.
Since then, Pflugerville has grown by approximately 20,000, with the total number of inhabitants approaching 40,000 as of 2008. The 2010 Enumeration placed Pflugerville's populace at 46,936, however with annexations since the 2010 census, the city's own populace estimate is estimated to be 53,752 as of July 2013. The 2006 NBC tv drama Friday Night Lights was filmed in Pflugerville and Austin, Texas.
Enumeration Bureau's 2008-2012 American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, the median income for a homehold in the town/city was $75,119, and the median income for a family was $84,449.
The City of Pflugerville has more than 15 parks, 30.5 miles of trail, 16 playscapes, 500 acres of parks and 528 acres of open space all inside Pflugerville's town/city limits.
Lake Pflugerville is a 180-acre reservoir assembled to furnish the people of Pflugerville with drinking water.
Lake Pflugerville Park includes a 3-mile walking/jogging trail, playground, boat launch, pavilion and beach area.
While not positioned in the town/city limits but at the north end of Austin, the park does furnish additional amenities to the community.
Hawaiian Falls opened a water park and adventure park in Pflugerville on Memorial Day Weekend 2014. The water park is now known as Typhoon Texas. In 2015, the town/city purchased a 237-acre tract of territory for a improve park with a new sports complex and nature areas for $4.276 million.
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