Emergency Crime Scene and Biohazard Cleanup in Comfort, TX

Comfort is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Kendall County, at the western end of the Texas-German belt in the Hill Country, where Interstate 10, U.S. Highway 87, and State Highway 27 meet.

Comfort was officially founded on September 3, 1854, by German immigrants who were Freethinkers and abolitionists; the town was laid out by 22-year-old surveyor Ernst Hermann Altgelt, and Fritz and Betty Holekamp built its first house.

True to its freethinker roots, Comfort was organized along cooperative lines with steadfast opposition to formal local government - it remains unincorporated today - and it had no church until 1892, almost four decades after its founding.

A cenotaph honoring the town's 'Founding Freethinkers' was dedicated in Comfort on November 2, 2002.

Comfort's Treue der Union Monument, erected in 1866 on High Street, honors 35 local German Unionists who were killed by Confederate forces at the Battle of the Nueces on August 10, 1862, while trying to flee to Mexico rather than fight for the Confederacy; the monument was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

The Treue der Union Monument is reported to be the first monument in the United States approved to fly the American flag at half-staff permanently.

Comfort's downtown is possibly one of the most well-preserved historic business districts in Texas, with well over 100 structures dating to the 19th century, seven of them designed by noted architect Alfred Giles.

In 1918, Albert Steves built a hygieostatic bat roost on his farm in Comfort to attract bats that would eat malaria-carrying mosquitoes; of 16 such roosts once built in the United States and Europe, only two survive - this one and one in the Florida Keys.

The 2020 census counted 2,211 people in 840 households in Comfort, and most residents today are descendants of the original German pioneer families of the 1850s and 1860s.

Comfort sits where Cypress Creek joins the Guadalupe River; the 1987 Guadalupe River flood killed 10 people who were being evacuated from a summer camp sited near the town.