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Jarrell is a city in northern Williamson County on Interstate 35, about 17 miles north of Georgetown, within the Greater Austin metropolitan area.

Jarrell was founded in 1909 by real estate developer O. D. Jarrell, along with E. C. Haeber, at the intersection of an old stagecoach road and the Bartlett and Western Railway, then under construction.

Jarrell reached a population peak of 500 in 1914, when it had a waterworks, electric lights, a movie theater, and a hotel, before the railroad's closing and the decline of cotton shrank it to about 200 residents.

Despite its 1909 founding, Jarrell was not incorporated as a city until 2001.

On May 27, 1997, an F5 tornado — sometimes called the 'dead man walking' tornado — devastated the north side of Jarrell, completely obliterating the Double Creek Estates subdivision and killing 27 people.

Jarrell had also been hit by an F3 tornado on May 17, 1989, which killed one person and injured 28 on the south side of town.

Jarrell had 1,753 residents at the 2020 census, but the Census Bureau estimated its population had jumped to about 5,870 by 2025 as Austin-area growth pushed north along I-35.

Census Bureau QuickFacts counts 1,124 households in Jarrell, averaging about 2.93 people per household.

About 76% of Jarrell's households are family households, well above the Texas average of about 68%.

Jarrell children attend schools in the Jarrell Independent School District, including Jarrell High School.