Emergency Crime Scene and Biohazard Cleanup in Castroville, TX

Castroville is a city in Medina County, Texas, on the Medina River and U.S. Highway 90 about 20 miles west of San Antonio, and it is known as the "Little Alsace" of Texas.

Castroville was established in 1844 by Henri Castro, an empresario of the Republic of Texas, whose first colonists arrived at his land grant on the Medina River on September 2, 1844, escorted by Texas Ranger John Coffee Hays.

Most of Castroville's founders were Alsatian families from Alsace and adjoining Baden, and the town's Alsatian dialect and culture are still kept alive by residents today.

Henri Castro patterned Castroville after European villages, with small in-town lots surrounded by individual farm plots outside town.

Castroville was designated the first county seat of Medina County in 1848 and held the seat until 1893, when it moved to Hondo; the city itself was incorporated on January 16, 1850.

Castroville's St. Louis Catholic Church, built in 1844, was the first church in Medina County, and the county's first post office opened in Castroville in 1847.

Nearly 100 buildings in Castroville are recognized as historic, and much of the town forms a national historic district preserving the steep sloped-roof architecture of the original Alsatian homes and shops.

Castroville is a sister city of Ensisheim in Alsace, France, the region most of its settlers came from.

Castroville had 2,954 residents at the 2020 census, and Census survey data put it at roughly 1,200 households with about 73% of homes owner-occupied.

Castroville is part of the San Antonio-New Braunfels metropolitan area, and its population grew from 2,680 in 2010 to 2,954 in 2020 as the San Antonio suburbs push west.