Biohazard and Crime Scene Remediation in Center Point, TX

Center Point is an unincorporated community and census-designated place on the Guadalupe River in southeastern Kerr County, Texas, eight miles southeast of Kerrville in the Texas Hill Country.

Center Point began on November 25, 1859, when Dr. Charles Ganahl opened a post office in his home and named it Zanzenberg after his ancestral home in the Austrian Tyrol.

In 1872 the post office moved to the south side of the Guadalupe River and postmaster Dr. G. W. Harwell renamed the community Center Point, because it sat halfway between Kerrville and Comfort and halfway between Fredericksburg and Bandera.

Center Point is one of the largest unincorporated communities in Texas - it incorporated in March 1913 and voted to dissolve its own city government that same October, and voters repeated the incorporate-then-dissolve cycle again in the mid-1990s.

The town first incorporated in August 1889 for school purposes only, electing its first school trustees in April 1890, and local students are still served today by the Center Point Independent School District.

By 1900 Center Point had an estimated 500 residents, churches, public schools, and a growing reputation as a health and recreation resort, and it held the Kerr County agricultural and livestock fair beginning in 1898.

A state historical marker in Center Point records that 33 Texas Rangers are buried in the Center Point Cemetery, and that Company F of the Texas Rangers was formed there under Captain Neal Coldwell.

The 2020 census counted 1,263 people, 624 households, and 544 families in the Center Point CDP, which first appeared as a census-designated place in 2020.

Center Point has a humid subtropical Hill Country climate with hot summers and mild winters, averaging about 31.65 inches of rain a year.

Stacy Sutherland, lead guitarist of the psychedelic rock band the 13th Floor Elevators, is buried in Center Point Cemetery, and actress Catherine 'Sara' Haden was born in Center Point in 1898.