Emergency Crime Scene and Biohazard Cleanup in Hutto, TX

Hutto is a fast-growing city in Williamson County, Texas, about seven miles east of Round Rock in the Austin-Round Rock metropolitan area.

Hutto was established in 1855 when the International-Great Northern Railroad built through land owned by James Emory Hutto, and railroad officials named the stop Hutto Station.

The first person to live in the immediate vicinity of Hutto was Adam Orgain, an enslaved man placed on the prairie to watch over cattle.

In 1876 James Hutto sold 50 acres to the Texas Land Company of New York for a townsite and railroad right-of-way, and Hutto's post office opened in 1877 with Hutto himself as postmaster.

By 1882 Hutto had a school and a Baptist church, and Swedish immigrants later turned the surrounding farms to cotton production.

Hutto incorporated in 1911.

In 1915 a circus train stopped in Hutto and a hippopotamus escaped into nearby Cottonwood Creek, holding up trains until it was recaptured - station master Hal Farley's telegram read, 'STOP TRAINS!! HIPPO LOOSE IN HUTTO.'

Hutto adopted the hippo as its school mascot and is the only community in the United States with a hippo mascot.

In 2003 the Texas Legislature recognized Hutto as the 'Official Hippo Capital of Texas,' and a seven-ton concrete hippo named Henrietta has stood on East Street since 1986.

Hutto stayed a small farming town for a century - 571 people in 1920 and 1,250 in 2000 - before exploding to 14,698 in 2010 and 27,577 in the 2020 census, an 87.6% jump in a single decade.