Kendall County, Texas

{{Infobox U.S. county

| county = Kendall County

| state = Texas

| seal = Kendall County tx seal.png

| founded = 1862

| seat wl = Boerne

| largest city wl = Boerne

| area_total_sq_mi = 663

| area_land_sq_mi = 662

| area_water_sq_mi = 0.6

| area percentage = 0.09

| census yr = 2020

| pop = 44279

| density_sq_mi = auto

| ex image = Kendall county courthouse.jpg

| ex image size = 250

| ex image cap = The Kendall County Courthouse in Boerne

| web = www.co.kendall.tx.us

| time zone = Central

| named for = George Wilkins Kendall

| district = 21st

}}

Kendall County is a county located on the Edwards Plateau in the U.S. state of Texas. In 2020 census, its population was 44,279.{{Cite web|title=Kendall County, Texas|url=https://data.census.gov/cedsci/profile?g=0500000US48259|website=United States Census Bureau|accessdate=January 30, 2022}} Its county seat is Boerne.{{cite web|url=http://www.naco.org/Counties/Pages/FindACounty.aspx |access-date=June 7, 2011 |title=Find a County |publisher=National Association of Counties |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110531210815/http://www.naco.org/Counties/Pages/FindACounty.aspx |archive-date=May 31, 2011 }} The county is named for George Wilkins Kendall, a journalist and Mexican–American War correspondent.

Kendall County is part of the San Antonio–New Braunfels, TX metropolitan statistical area.

Progressive Farmer rated Kendall County fifth in its list of the "Best Places to Live in Rural America" in 2006.

Kendall, along with Hays and Comal Counties, was listed in 2017 of the nation's 10 fastest-growing large counties with a population of at least 10,000. From 2015 to 2016, Kendall County, the second-fastest-growing county in the nation, grew by 5.16%, gaining 2,088 people in a one-year period.Zeke MacCormack, "Folks flocking to area counties: Kendall, Comal, and Hays are on the top 10 list", San Antonio Express-News, March 24, 2017, pp. 1, A11.Press Release Number: CB17-44. [https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2017/cb17-44.html Maricopa County Added Over 222 People Per Day in 2016, More Than Any Other County], U.S. Census Bureau, March 23, 2017.

History

=Before 1850=

Early Native American inhabitants included Kiowa, Comanche, and Lipan Apache.{{cite web|last=Smyrl|first=Vivian Elizabeth|url=https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/hck03|title=Kendall County|work=Handbook of Texas Online|publisher=Texas State Historical Association|access-date=November 27, 2010}}
In the 1700s, Lipan Apaches discovered Cascade Caverns.{{cite web|title=Cascade Caverns|url=http://www.cascadecaverns.com/|publisher=Cascade Caverns|access-date=November 27, 2010}}
1842

:April 20 – Adelsverein{{cite web|last=Brister|first=Louis E.|title=Adelsverein|url=https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/ufa01|work=Handbook of Texas Online|publisher=Texas State Historical Association|access-date=November 27, 2010}} organized in Germany to promote emigration to Texas.

:June 7 – Fisher-Miller Land Grant set aside {{convert|3000000|acre|m2}} to settle 600 families and single men of German, Dutch, Swiss, Danish, Swedish, and Norwegian ancestry in Texas.{{cite web|last=Ramos|first=Mary G|title=German Settlements of Texas|url=http://www.texasalmanac.com/history/highlights/german/|work=Texas Almanac|publisher=Texas State Historical Association|access-date=November 27, 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110207191825/http://www.texasalmanac.com/history/highlights/german/|archive-date=February 7, 2011}}

1844, June 26 – Henry Francis Fisher sold his interest in the land grant to Adelsverein.
1845

:Prince Carl of Solms-Braunfels secured title to {{convert|1,265|acre|km2}} of the Veramendi grant, including the Comal Springs and River, for the Adelsverein.

:February – Thousands of German immigrants were stranded at port of disembarkation Indianaola on Matagorda Bay. With no food or shelters, living in holes dug into the ground, an estimated 50% died from disease or starvation. The living began to walk to their destinations hundreds of miles away.{{cite web|title=Indianola, Texas|url=http://www.texasescapes.com/TexasGhostTowns/IndianolaTexas/IndianolaTx.htm|publisher=Blueprints For Travel, LLC|access-date=November 27, 2010}}{{cite web|last=Block|first=W T|title=The Story of our Texas' German Pilgrims|url=http://www.texasescapes.com/WTBlock/Texas-German-Pilgrims-Death-March-to-Comal-County.htm|publisher=Blueprints For Travel, LLC|access-date=November 27, 2010}}

:May – John O. Meusebach arrived in Galveston.{{cite web|last=Smith|first=Cornelia Marshall|title=Meusebach, John O|url=https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fme33|work=Handbook of Texas Online|publisher=Texas State Historical Association|access-date=November 27, 2010|author2=Tetzlaff, Otto W }}

:December 20 – Henry Francis Fisher and Burchard Miller sold their rights in the land grant to Adelsverein.

1847

:Meusebach–Comanche Treaty{{cite web|title=Comanche Indian Treaty |url=http://www.9key.com/markers/marker_detail.asp?atlas_number=5411000991 |publisher=William Nienke, Sam Morrow |access-date=November 27, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718162232/http://www.9key.com/markers/marker_detail.asp?atlas_number=5411000991 |archive-date=July 18, 2011 }}

:Sisterdale was established.{{cite web|last=Lich|first=Glen E|title=Sisterdale, Texas|url=https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/hns51|work=Handbpok of Texas Online|publisher=Texas State Historical Association|access-date=November 27, 2010}}

1849 Freethinkers Bettina colonists from Llano County settled Tusculum, named after Cicero’s home in ancient Rome. The initial community banned any churches from being erected. The town was later renamed Boerne, for German-Jewish political writer Ludwig Börne, who influenced Karl Marx.

=1850–1899=

1850s George W. Kendall introduced sheep ranching to the county.
1854

:John O. Meusebach received an appointment as commissioner from Governor Elisha M. Pease

:May 14–15, San Antonio – The Texas State Convention of Germans adopted a political, social, and religious platform, including: 1) Equal pay for equal work; 2) Direct election of the President of the United States; 3) Abolition of capital punishment; 4) "Slavery is an evil, the abolition of which is a requirement of democratic principles.."; 5) Free schools – including universities – supported by the state, without religious influence; and 6) Total separation of church and state.{{cite journal|last1=Biesele |first1=R. L. |title=The Texas State Convention of Germans in 1854 |journal=Southwestern Historical Quarterly |date=April 1930 |volume=33 |issue=4 |pages=247–261 |url=http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531,/metapth101090/m1/273/ |publisher=Texas State Historical Association |location=Denton, TX}}{{dead link|date=May 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes}}

:Comfort is founded by German immigrant Freethinkers and abolitionists.{{cite web|last=Lich|first=Glen E|title=Comfort, Texas|url=https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/hjc16|work=Handbook of Texas Online|publisher=Texas State Historical Association|access-date=November 27, 2010}}

1860 Boerne Village Band was formed by Karl Dienger.{{cite web|last=Thonhoff|first=Robert H|title=Boerne Village Band|url=https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/xgbjv|work=Handbook of Texas Online|publisher=Texas State Historical Association|access-date=November 27, 2010}}
1861 Unionists from Kerr, Gillespie, and Kendall Counties participated in the formation of the Union League, a secret organization to support President Abraham Lincoln’s policies.{{cite web|last=Moneyhon |first=Charles H|title=The Union League |url=https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/wau01|work=Handbook of Texas Online|publisher=Texas State Historical Association|access-date=November 27, 2010}}
1862

:Kendall County was established from Kerr and Blanco Counties, named for journalist George Wilkins Kendall. Boerne was made the county seat.

:The Union League formed companies to protect the frontier against Indians and their families against local Confederate forces. Conscientious objectors to the military draft were primarily among Tejanos and Germans.

:May 30 – Confederate authorities imposed martial law on Central Texas.

:August 10 – The Nueces massacre occurred in Kinney County. Jacob Kuechler served as a guide for 61 conscientious objectors attempting to flee to Mexico. Scottish-born Confederate irregular James Duff and his Duff’s Partisan Rangers pursued and overtook them at the Nueces River, 34 were killed, some executed after being taken prisoner. Jacob Kuechler survived the battle. The cruelty shocked the people of Gillespie County; 2,000 took to the hills to escape Duff's reign of terror.{{cite web|last=Shook|first= Robert W. |title=Duff, James|url=https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fdu06|work=Handbook of Texas Online|publisher=Texas State Historical Association|access-date=November 21, 2010}}

:Spring Creek Cemetery near Harper in Gillespie County has a singular grave with the names Sebird Henderson, Hiram Nelson, Gus Tegener, and Frank Scott. The inscription reads "Hanged and thrown in Spring Creek by Col. James Duff’s Confederate Regiment."{{cite web|title=Spring Creek Cemetery|url=http://www.txgenweb2.org/txgillespie/spring.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081202123507/http://www.txgenweb2.org/txgillespie/spring.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=December 2, 2008|publisher=Texas Gen Web|access-date=November 13, 2010}}

1866 Samuel Boyd Patton was elected chief justice after his home became part of Kendall County which had been Blanco County.
1866, August 10 – Treue der Union Monument ("Loyalty to the Union") in Comfort dedicated to the German Texans slain at the Nueces massacre. It is one of only six such sites allowed to fly the United States flag at half-mast in perpetuity.{{cite web|title=Treue der Union Monument|url=http://www.texasescapes.com/TexasHistory/Treue-Der-Union-Loyalty-to-the-Union.htm|publisher=Blueprints For Travel, LLC|access-date=November 27, 2010}}{{cite web|title=List of Dead-Treue Der Union Monument|url=http://www.txgenweb2.org/txkendall/treue.htm|publisher=Texas Gen Web|access-date=November 27, 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120226175800/http://www.txgenweb2.org/txkendall/treue.htm|archive-date=February 26, 2012}}
1870 The original Kendall County limestone courthouse was built (Italianate architecture), with architects Philip Zoeller and J. F. Stendebach.{{cite web|title=Kendall County Courthouse|url=http://www.texasescapes.com/TOWNS/Boerne/KendallCountyCourthouseBoerneTexas.htm|work=Texas Escapes|publisher=Texas Escapes – Blueprints For Travel, LLC|access-date=November 27, 2010|archive-date=February 13, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100213194510/http://texasescapes.com/TOWNS/Boerne/KendallCountyCourthouseBoerneTexas.htm|url-status=dead}}
1885

:Austrian-born Andreas Engel founded Bergheim.{{cite web|title=Bergheim|url=http://www.texasescapes.com/TexasHillCountryTowns/Bergheim-Texas.htm|work=Texas Escapes|publisher=Texas Escapes – Blueprints For Travel, LLC|access-date=November 27, 2010}}

: The Sisterdale cotton gin began operations.{{cite web|title=Sisterdale|url=http://www.texasescapes.com/TexasHillCountryTowns/Sisterdale-Texas.htm|work=Texas Escapes|publisher=Texas Escapes – Blueprints For Travel, LLC|access-date=November 27, 2010}}

1887 San Antonio and Aransas Pass Railway began a Boerne-to-San Antonio route.{{cite web|title=Boerne History|url=http://www.visitboerne.org/index.aspx?nid=130|publisher=Boerne Convention and Visitors Bureau|access-date=November 27, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718190754/http://www.visitboerne.org/index.aspx?nid=130|archive-date=July 18, 2011|url-status=dead}}[http://visitboerne.org/About+Boerne/Boerne+History/default.aspx Boerne Convention and Visitors Bureau] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090625051019/http://visitboerne.org/About+Boerne/Boerne+History/default.aspx |date=June 25, 2009 }}{{cite web|title=San Antonio and Aransas Pass Railway|url=http://saap.tnorr.com/|access-date=November 27, 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060912172901/http://saap.tnorr.com/|archive-date=September 12, 2006}}
1897, May 27 – John O. Meusebach died at his farm at Loyal Valley in Mason County, and was buried in the Marschall Meusebach Cemetery at Cherry Spring.

=1900–present=

1900 Kendall County had 542 farms. Area under cultivation had risen from {{convert|153921|acre|km2}} in 1880 to {{convert|339653|acre|km2}}. Stockraising was still the principal industry.
1905 Citizens of Boerne gathered to share agricultural information, recipes, and news of events. This later became the annual Kendall County Fair.{{cite web|title=Kendall County Fair Association, Inc.|url=http://www.kcfa.org/about-us.html|access-date=June 12, 2012|url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120705043515/http://www.kcfa.org/about-us.html|archive-date=July 5, 2012}}
1913 The Kendall County Fair Association was organized and was awarded a nonprofit corporate charter from the State of Texas.
1914 Fredericksburg and Northern Railway connected Fredericksburg with the San Antonio and Aransas Pass Railway track just east of Comfort.
1918 A hygieostatic bat roost house was built in Comfort to attract bats to eradicate mosquitoes and reduce the spread of malaria. It was designed for former San Antonio Mayor Albert Steves Sr., by bat authority Dr. Charles A. R. Campbell.{{cite web|title=Hygieostatic Bat Roost – Comfort, Kendall County, Texas |url=http://www.9key.com/markers/marker_detail.asp?atlas_number=5259002608 |publisher=William Nienke, Sam Morrow |access-date=November 27, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718162259/http://www.9key.com/markers/marker_detail.asp?atlas_number=5259002608 |archive-date=July 18, 2011 }}
1930s

:The Great Depression brought an increase in tenant farming.

:Commercial development of Cascade Caverns began.

World War II – American military bases in the San Antonio area provided jobs for Kendall County residents.
1983 The Guadalupe River State Park opened to the public.{{cite web|title=Guadalupe River State Park|url=http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/spdest/findadest/parks/guadalupe_river/|publisher=Texas Parks and Wildlife Department|access-date=November 27, 2010}}
1988 The Federal Republic of Germany recognized the Boerne Village Band for its contribution to the German heritage in Texas and America.{{cite web|title=History Boerne Village Band|url=http://www.txgenweb2.org/txkendall/bvb.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081123032611/http://www.txgenweb2.org/txkendall/bvb.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=November 23, 2008|publisher=Tx Gen Web|access-date=November 27, 2010}}
1990, Earth Day – Cibolo Nature Center opened to the public.{{cite web|title=Cibolo Nature Center|url=http://www.cibolo.org/about|work=History|publisher=Cibolo Nature Center |access-date=November 27, 2010}}
1991 The Texas Legislature adopted a resolution recognizing the Boerne Village Band for "keeping alive German music as a part of our heritage."
1998 The current Kendall County limestone, steel, and concrete courthouse was built in Boerne, across the street from the original 1870 courthouse with architect Rehler Vaughn & Koone, Inc.
2005 Kendall County celebrated its 100th anniversary of the Kendall County Fair. The Kendall County Fair Association continues to produce one of the few remaining entirely privately funded county fairs in Texas.
2013 The Kendall County Fair Association, Inc. celebrated its 100th year of existence.
2015 Kendall County declared a state of emergency from May flooding.

Geography

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of {{convert|663|sqmi}}, of which {{convert|662|sqmi}} are land and {{convert|0.6|sqmi}} (0.09%) is covered by water.{{cite web|url=http://www2.census.gov/geo/docs/maps-data/data/gazetteer/counties_list_48.txt|publisher=United States Census Bureau|access-date=May 2, 2015|date=August 22, 2012|title=2010 Census Gazetteer Files}}

=Major highways=

20px Interstate 10
20px U.S. Highway 87 (Old Spanish Trail)
20px U.S. Highway 87 Business (Main Street)
20px U.S. Highway 87 Business (Old Spanish Trail)
20px State Highway 27 (Old Spanish Trail)
20px State Highway 46
20px Farm To Market Road 289 (Old Spanish Trail)
20px Farm to Market Road 1621
20px Farm to Market Road 3351
20px Ranch to Market Road 473
20px Ranch to Market Road 474
20px Ranch to Market Road 1376
20px Ranch to Market Road 3160 (formerly part of FM 3351)

==Historic highways==

=Adjacent counties=

Gillespie County (north)
Blanco County (northeast)
Comal County (southeast)
Bexar County (south)
Bandera County (southwest)
Kerr County (west)

=Waterways=

Guadalupe River

=Caves=

Demographics

{{US Census population

|1870= 1536

|1880= 2763

|1890= 3826

|1900= 4103

|1910= 4517

|1920= 4779

|1930= 4970

|1940= 5080

|1950= 5423

|1960= 5889

|1970= 6964

|1980= 10635

|1990= 14589

|2000= 23743

|2010= 33410

|2020= 44279

|estyear=

|estimate=

|estref=

|align-fn=center

|footnote=U.S. Decennial Census{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/decennial-census/decade.html|title=Decennial Census of Population and Housing by Decade|publisher=US Census Bureau|access-date=}}
1850–2010{{cite web|url=http://texasalmanac.com/sites/default/files/images/topics/ctypophistweb2010.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/http://texasalmanac.com/sites/default/files/images/topics/ctypophistweb2010.pdf |archive-date=October 9, 2022 |url-status=live|title=Texas Almanac: Population History of Counties from 1850–2010|publisher=Texas Almanac|access-date=May 2, 2015}} 2010 2020

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{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"

|+Kendall County, Texas – Racial and ethnic composition
{{nobold|Note: the US Census treats Hispanic/Latino as an ethnic category. This table excludes Latinos from the racial categories and assigns them to a separate category. Hispanics/Latinos may be of any race.}}

!Race / Ethnicity (NH = Non-Hispanic)

!Pop 2000{{Cite web|title=P004: Hispanic or Latino, and Not Hispanic or Latino by Race – 2000: DEC Summary File 1 – Kendall County, Texas|url=https://data.census.gov/table?g=0500000US48259&tid=DECENNIALSF12000.P004|website=United States Census Bureau |access-date= }}

!Pop 2010{{Cite web|title=P2 Hispanic or Latino, and Not Hispanic or Latino by Race – 2010: DEC Redistricting Data (PL 94-171) – Kendall County, Texas|url=https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?q=p2&g=0500000US48259&tid=DECENNIALPL2010.P2|website=United States Census Bureau}}

!{{partial|Pop 2020}}{{Cite web|title=P2 Hispanic or Latino, and Not Hispanic or Latino by Race – 2020: DEC Redistricting Data (PL 94-171) – Kendall County, Texas|url=https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?q=p2&g=0500000US48259&tid=DECENNIALPL2020.P2|website=United States Census Bureau}}

!% 2000

!% 2010

!{{partial|% 2020}}

|White alone (NH)

|19,104

|25,746

|style='background: #ffffe6; |31,767

|80.46%

|77.06%

|style='background: #ffffe6; |71.74%

|Black or African American alone (NH)

|63

|138

|style='background: #ffffe6; |315

|0.27%

|0.41%

|style='background: #ffffe6; |0.71%

|Native American or Alaska Native alone (NH)

|79

|129

|style='background: #ffffe6; |138

|0.33%

|0.39%

|style='background: #ffffe6; |0.31%

|Asian alone (NH)

|52

|202

|style='background: #ffffe6; |355

|0.22%

|0.60%

|style='background: #ffffe6; |0.80%

|Pacific Islander alone (NH)

|13

|style='background: #ffffe6; |36

|0.01%

|0.04%

|style='background: #ffffe6; |0.08%

|Other Race alone (NH)

|31

|26

|style='background: #ffffe6; |202

|0.13%

|0.08%

|style='background: #ffffe6; |0.46%

|Mixed Race or Multiracial (NH)

|163

|327

|style='background: #ffffe6; |1,437

|0.69%

|0.98%

|style='background: #ffffe6; |3.25%

|Hispanic or Latino (any race)

|4,248

|6,829

|style='background: #ffffe6; |10,029

|17.89%

|20.44%

|style='background: #ffffe6; |22.65%

|Total

|23,743

|33,410

|style='background: #ffffe6; |44,279

|100.00%

|style='background: #ffffe6; |100.00%

As of the census{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov|publisher=United States Census Bureau|access-date=May 14, 2011|title=U.S. Census website}} of 2010, 33,410 people, 8,613 households, and 6,692 families resided in the county. The population density was {{convert|36|/mi2|/km2|disp=preunit|people |people|}}. The 9,609 housing units averaged {{convert|14|/mi2|/km2|adj=pre|units }}. The racial makeup of the county was 92.86% White, 0.56% Native American, 0.35% African American, 0.23% Asian, 4.46% from other races, and 1.55% from two or more races. About 17.89% of the population was Hispanic or Latino of any race.

Of the 8,613 households, 36.30% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 67.20% were married couples living together, 7.90% had a female householder with no husband present, and 22.30% were not families. About 19.20% of all households were made up of individuals, and 8.40% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.70 and the average family size was 3.09.

In the county, the population was distributed as 27.20% under the age of 18, 6.10% from 18 to 24, 26.40% from 25 to 44, 26.40% from 45 to 64, and 13.90% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 39 years. For every 100 females, there were 95.00 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 91.40 males.

The median income for a household in the county was $49,521, and for a family was $58,081. Males had a median income of $39,697 versus $28,807 for females. The per capita income for the county was $24,619. About 7.90% of families and 10.50% of the population were below the poverty line, including 13.60% of those under age 18 and 9.40% of those age 65 or over.

Communities

=Cities=

Boerne (county seat)
Fair Oaks Ranch (partly in Bexar and Comal Counties)

=Census-designated place=

Comfort

=Other unincorporated communities=

=Ghost towns=

Politics

Kendall County constitutes an anomaly in Texas politics, due to it being a historically Republican county in a state that was overwhelmingly Democratic at the presidential level until the 1950s. This is largely due to the heavily German American heritage of the county and that the area Kendall County occupies was the center of Texas’ small Unionist movement during the Civil War. Most Texas Germans acquiesced to secession, but Fredericksburg and surrounding areas were still self-sufficient and sold surplus food to the army.Bünger, Walter L.; ‘Secession and the Texas German Community: Editor Lindheimer vs. Editor Flake’; The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Vol. 82, No. 4 (Apr. 1979), pp. 379-402 No Democratic presidential nominee has carried Kendall County since Franklin D. Roosevelt won 88% of Texas’ vote and carried all 254 counties in 1932, though his performance is particularly impressive seeing as how he won the county by almost 50 points despite the county's long-standing Republican favoritism. In 1936, when Roosevelt won over 87% of Texas’ vote, Alf Landon carried Kendall County with over 62% of the vote, making Kendall County the nation's southernmost county to vote for Landon. Since then, only Lyndon Johnson in 1964 and Jimmy Carter in 1976 have managed over 30% for the Democratic Party in Kendall County.

{{PresHead|place=Kendall County, Texas|source={{Cite web|url=http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS|title=Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections|last=Leip|first=David|website=uselectionatlas.org|access-date=July 26, 2018}}}}

The county is part of the 21st District in the United States House of Representatives, represented by Republican Chip Roy, the 25th district of the Texas State Senate, represented by Republican Donna Campbell, and the 19th District of the Texas House of Representatives and is represented by Republican Ellen Troxclair.

Education

School districts include:{{cite web|url=https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/DC2020/PL20/st48_tx/schooldistrict_maps/c48259_kendall/DC20SD_C48259.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/DC2020/PL20/st48_tx/schooldistrict_maps/c48259_kendall/DC20SD_C48259.pdf |archive-date=October 9, 2022 |url-status=live|title=2020 CENSUS - SCHOOL DISTRICT REFERENCE MAP: Kendall County, TX|publisher=U.S. Census Bureau|accessdate=June 29, 2022}} - [https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/DC2020/PL20/st48_tx/schooldistrict_maps/c48259_kendall/DC20SD_C48259_SD2MS.txt Text list]

All of the county is in the service area of Alamo Community College District.[https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/ED/htm/ED.130.htm Texas Education Code, Sec. 130.162. ALAMO COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT SERVICE AREA.].

Government offices

=State parks=

Boerne-Hallie Maude Neff State Park (former)
Guadalupe River State Park (part)
Old Tunnel State Park

=Fire departments=

==Post offices==

Village Post Office, Bergheim
Boerne Carrier Annex
Boerne Post Office
Comfort Post Office
Kendalia Post Office
Waring Post Office

==Former==

Welfare Post Office (1880–1976)
Currey's Creek Post Office (1870–1894)
Panther Creek Post Office (Jun 1879-Aug 1879)
Ammans Post Office (Feb 1881-Oct 1881)
Benton Post Office (1875–1880)
Block Creek Post Office (1884–1895)
Curry Post Office (1894–1895)
Guadalupe Post Office (1875–1890)
Hastings Post Office (1890–1903)
Hodge's Mill Post Office (1867–1870)
Joseway Post Office (Feb 1880-Mar 1880)
Schiller Post Office (1890–1907)
South Grape Creek Post Office (1875–1881)
Waringford Post Office (1888–1891)
Windsor Post Office (1880–1888)
Bankersmith Post Office
Brownsboro Post Office

Darmstadt Society of Forty

Count Castell{{cite web|last=Brister|first=Louis E|title=Count Carl of Castell-Castell|url=https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fcaap|work=Handbook of Texas Online|publisher=Texas State Historical Association|access-date=January 16, 2011}} of the Adelsverein negotiated with the separate Darmstadt Society of Forty to colonize two hundred families on the Fisher–Miller Land Grant territory in Texas. In return, they were to receive $12,000 in money, livestock, equipment and provisions for a year. After the first year, the colonies were expected to support themselves.King (1967) p.122 The colonies attempted were Castell,{{cite web|last=Heckert-Greene|first=James B|title=Castell, Texas|url=https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/hnc23|work=Handbook of Texas Online|publisher=Texas State Historical Association|access-date=January 20, 2011}} Leiningen, Bettina,{{cite web|last=Lich|first=Glen E|title=Bettina, Texas|url=https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/hvb55|work=Handbook of Texas Online|publisher=Texas State Historical Association|access-date=January 20, 2011}} Schoenburg and Meerholz in Llano County; Darmstädler Farm in Comal County; and Tusculum in Kendall County.{{cite web|last=Lich|first=Glen E|title=The Forty|url=https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/pnf02|work=Handbook of Texas Online|publisher=Texas State Historical Association|access-date=January 20, 2011}} Of these, only Castell survives. The colonies failed after the Adelsverein funding expired, and also due to conflict of structure and authorities. Some members moved to other Adelsverein settlements in Texas. Others moved elsewhere, or returned to Germany.

References

External links

[http://www.co.kendall.tx.us/ Official website]
{{Handbook of Texas|id=hck03|name=Kendall County}}
[http://www.progressivefarmer.com/farmer/bestplaces/articles/03oconee.html Best Places to Live in 2006] from the Progressive Farmer website
[https://web.archive.org/web/20120705043515/http://www.kcfa.org/about-us.html Kendall County Fair Association, Inc.]
[https://www.bkcedc.com/ Boerne Kendall County Economic Development Corporation]

{{Geographic Location

|Centre = Kendall County, Texas

|North = Gillespie County

|Northeast = Blanco County

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|Southeast = Comal County

|South = Bexar County

|Southwest = Bandera County

|West = Kerr County

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