Blood, Trauma, and Biohazard Cleanup in Floresville, TX

Floresville is the county seat of Wilson County, about 30 miles southeast of San Antonio at the junction of U.S. Highway 181 and State Highway 97.

Floresville was founded in 1867 on part of the older community of Lodi and named for Don Francisco Flores de Abrego, a Canary Island immigrant who established a ranch headquarters nearby in the eighteenth century.

County voters made Floresville the Wilson County seat in November 1873, and the town incorporated in 1890 with about 1,500 residents.

In 1886 Floresville became the first town reached by the San Antonio and Aransas Pass Railway, sparking growth that carried into the 1950s.

Local rancher Andrew G. Pickett began raising peanuts on his irrigated ranch in the early 1870s, and after peanuts became the region's cash crop around 1915 residents nicknamed Floresville the "Peanut Capital of Texas."

Floresville's annual Peanut Festival, first held in 1938, still draws some 10,000 to 15,000 visitors to the city each year.

The 2020 census counted 7,203 people in Floresville, and Census QuickFacts counts about 2,951 households averaging 2.61 people each; the Census Bureau estimated the city had grown to about 9,105 people by 2025.

Floresville is the birthplace of John Connally, born February 27, 1917, who graduated from Floresville High School and went on to serve as governor of Texas and U.S. Secretary of the Treasury.

The Connally Memorial Medical Center on U.S. Highway 181 in Floresville is named in Governor Connally's honor.

Today Floresville serves as a market center for the peanut and grain farmers and cattle ranchers of Wilson County, within commuting distance of San Antonio.