San Marcos, Texas San Marcos, Texas Official seal of San Marcos, Texas Demonym(s) San Marcoan, San Martian San Marcos (/ s n m rk s/ san mar-k s) is a town/city in the U.S.
State of Texas, inside the Austin Round Rock San Marcos urbane area.
Founded on the banks of the San Marcos River, the region is thought to be among the earliest continuously inhabited sites in the Americas.
San Marcos is home to Texas State University and the Meadows Center for Water and the Environment. In 2010, San Marcos was listed in Business Week's fourth annual survey of the "Best Places to Raise your Kids". In 2013 and 2014, the United States Enumeration Bureau titled San Marcos the fastest-growing town/city in the United States. In December 2013, San Marcos was titled #9 on Business Insider's list of the "10 Most Exciting Small Cities In America". San Marcos is in Central Texas.
Along the fault, many springs emerge, such as San Marcos Springs, which forms Spring Lake and is the origin of the San Marcos River.
The San Marcos River and the Blanco River, part of the Guadalupe watershed, flow through the city, along with Cottonwood Creek, Purgatory Creek, Sink Creek, and Willow Springs Creek.
According to the Koppen climate classification system, San Marcos has a humid subtropical climate, Cfa on climate maps. For major and secondary education, San Marcos is served by the San Marcos Consolidated Independent School District.
San Marcos Baptist Academy, a private high school, is in the city.
San Marcos is also home to Aquarena Center, the Meadows Center for Water and the Environment, the San Marcos National Fish Hatchery and Aquatic Resource Center, the A.
Wood Texas Fish Hatchery, the San Marcos Nature Center, the Centro Cultural Hispano de San Marcos, and the Indigenous Cultures Institute. San Marcos Station is served by Amtrak's Texas Eagle San Marcos' central locale along IH-35 and strong transit framework makes it ideal for industry.
The access points of the region provide an easy route to primary cities in Texas such as Austin, San Antonio, Dallas, and Houston.
The area's character of life is highlighted by the San Marcos River, which is naturally fed by the San Marcos Springs.
In June 2006, The View titled the San Marcos Outlets as the third-best place to shop in the world.
Downstream from the headwaters of the San Marcos Springs, Aquarena Springs, and Spring Lake The San Marcos and Blanco Rivers flow through the city, along with Cottonwood Creek, Purgatory Creek, Sink Creek, and Willow Springs Creek.
The San Marcos River rises from the San Marcos Springs.
The springs are home to a several threatened or endangered species, including the Texas blind salamander, fountain darter, San Marcos gambusia, and Texas wild rice.
The river begins at San Marcos Springs, rising from the Edwards Aquifer into Spring Lake.
The upper river flows through Texas State University and San Marcos and is a prominent recreational area.
The Heard House, one of more than 40 historic properties in San Marcos In 2010, San Marcos was listed in Business Week magazine's fourth annual survey of the "Best Places to Raise your Kids." In 2013 and 2014, the United States Enumeration Bureau titled San Marcos the fastest-growing town/city in the United States. In December 2013, San Marcos was titled #9 on the Business Insider list of the "10 Most Exciting Small Cities In America." The Texas Water Safari] starts in San Marcos on the first Saturday in June each year.
The City of San Marcos references the nickname in its "Keep San Marcos Beautiful" campaign. In addition to the historic downtown, San Marcos has five residentiary historic districts. The town/city also boasts of at least 40 homes and buildings on the National Register of Historic Places.
Local media include the San Marcos Daily Record, the San Marcos Mercury, and The University Star.
The City of San Marcos and the San Marcos Arts Commission broke ground in January 2013 on a commemorative sculpture that will sit at the intersection of LBJ Drive and MLK Drive.
In 2016, the San Marcos Arts Commission announced a citywide art installation universal that would erect 10 mermaid statues throughout the city. Mermaids have been part of San Marcos culture since the mid-1900s, when the former Aquarena Springs amusement park began underwater performances by women dressed as mermaids.
For more than 20 years,[when?] the San Marcos Performing Arts Commission and the San Marcos Parks and Recreation Department have hosted the Summer in the Park concert series with live music at an outside venue every Thursday evening from June to August. Contributing to the music scene in San Marcos, Texas State University hosts the Hill Country Jazz Festival and Eddie Durham Celebration annually. Many tv shows and movies have filmed in San Marcos, including Friday Night Lights, Everybody Wants Some!!, Boyhood, American Crime, That's What I'm Talking About, Piranha, The Ringer, Courage Under Fire, The New Guy, The Faculty, Idiocracy, The Getaway, The War at Home, Little Boy Blue, Flesh and Bone, Race With the Devil, The Tree of Life, Tiramisu For Two, and Vikings. Archeologists have found evidence at the San Marcos River associated with the Clovis culture, which suggests that the river has been the site of human surroundingion for more than 10,000 years.
The San Marcos Springs are the third-largest compilation of springs in Texas.
In January 1808, a small group of Mexican families settled at the Old Bastrop Highway crossing of the river, and titled the settlement Villa de San Marcos de Neve. The pioneer were plagued by floods and Indian raids, and the settlement was abandoned in 1812. In November 1846, the first Anglos settled in the vicinity of the San Marcos Springs.
The Texas Legislature organized Hays County on March 1, 1848, and designated San Marcos as the county seat.
In the decade following the arrival of the International-Great Northern Railroad in 1881, cattle and cotton provided the basis for the expansion of San Marcos as a center for commerce and transportation.
In 1866, the Coronal Institute was established as an early private high school. In 1899, Southwest Texas State Normal School (now known as Texas State University) was established as a teacher's college to meet demand for enhance school teachers in Texas.
In 1907, the San Marcos Baptist Academy was established, furthering education as an meaningful industry for the town.
In the late 1940s, former Hollywood director Shadrack Graham produced a documentary about daily life in San Marcos as part of his "Our Home Town" series of films that encouraged commerce and civic activeness in small communities.
Gary Air Force Base, just east of town, was opened in 1942 as San Marcos Army Air Field, retitled San Marcos Air Force Base in 1947, and retitled finally in 1953 with respect to Lieutenant Arthur Edward Gary, killed at Clark Field in the Philippines on December 7, 1941, the first San Marcan to die in World War II.
Subsequently, part of the base was taken over by the town/city for use as San Marcos Airport, while another part was reopened in 1966 as the Gary Job Corps Center. By the 1960s, what was then titled Southwest Texas State University had grown into an meaningful county-wide institution, and when coupled with the creation of Gary Job Corps Training Center in 1965, education became the biggest industry in San Marcos. The remarkable expansion explosion of Austin further allowed San Marcos to prosper.
By 1973, San Marcos and Hays County were encompassed by the U.
Enumeration Bureau in May, 2013, stated that San Marcos had the highest rate of expansion among all U.S.
In 1991 protestors advocating for legalization of marijuana conducted a civil disobedience action and were arrested; they became known as the San Marcos Seven. Main article: List of citizens from San Marcos, Texas San Marcos Seven, arrested for civil disobedience against marijuana laws at the San Marcos police station in 1991, and some jailed The old San Marcos Telephone Company building Lloyd Gideon Johnson House (1919), assembled by a small-town banker, home of the San Marcos Masonic Lodge 1937-1990, now restored as a private home a b "Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Enumeration Summary File 1 (G001): San Marcos city, Texas".
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In 1991, he was one of the "San Marcos 7": a protest in which one person a day for seven days walked into the Hays County Jail smoking a joint and asking to be arrested.
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