Biohazard Cleanup Near North Eden Eden, TX

Eden was founded by Frederick Ede, who moved to Concho County with his family about 1881 and in February 1882 designated forty acres of his land as a townsite and donated land for the town square; the town's name is an adaptation of his surname.

Eden's first settlers were the family of Harvey and Louisa McCarty, a post office was established in 1883, a school followed in 1885, and a Baptist church was organized in 1886.

Eden voted to incorporate on December 15, 1910, and formally incorporated on February 4, 1911, the same year the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway completed its line between Eden and Lometa.

Eden sits at the junction of U.S. Highways 83 and 87 in south central Concho County, twenty-one miles southeast of the county seat, Paint Rock, and serves as a rural trading center for the many large ranches and farms of West Texas.

Eden became a trading center for wool and mohair after 1925 as sheep and goat ranching grew in the area, and local ranchers even raised polo ponies for eastern markets.

Eden had a population of 1,100 at the 2020 census, living in 428 households; its population had peaked at 1,993 in 1954.

Eden's census counts swing sharply because of the Eden Detention Center, a federal facility operated for the Federal Bureau of Prisons with a capacity of about 1,558 inmates and roughly 285 staff — inmates made up about half of the town's 2,766 residents counted in 2010.

Eden is the birthplace and hometown of James Earl Rudder, the World War II general who led the Rangers at Pointe du Hoc on D-Day and later served as president of Texas A&M University, and the town honors him with James Earl Rudder Memorial Park.

Eden is also home to a green space and nature trails fittingly named the 'Garden of Eden,' and to the Don Freeman Memorial Museum.

Eden students attend Eden Elementary School and Eden High School in the Eden Consolidated Independent School District, and all of Concho County lies in the service area of Howard College.