Biohazard Cleanup Near Downtown Junction Junction, TX

Junction is a city in the Texas Hill Country and the county seat of Kimble County, about 115 miles northwest of San Antonio.

Junction takes its name from its location at the confluence of the North Llano River and the South Llano River.

The town was founded in 1876, the year Kimble County was organized; it was first named Denman for surveyor Marcellus Denman, then Junction City, before the name was shortened to Junction in 1894.

Junction won the county-seat designation in late 1876 after the rival settlement of Kimbleville proved too flood-prone to survive.

The 2020 census counted 2,451 people in Junction, living in 1,048 households.

Kimble County's first newspaper, the West Texas, began publishing in Junction in 1882.

Junction's first courthouse burned in 1884, and the present Kimble County Courthouse dates to 1929.

Junction incorporated in 1927 by a vote of 274 to 116, and its first mayor, Ernest Holekamp, had earlier built the town's first waterworks in 1895.

Junction's nicknames are 'Land of Living Waters' and the 'Front Porch of the West.'

The 2,600-acre South Llano River State Park lies near Junction, and the town also hosts the Kimble County Historical Museum and the O. C. Fisher Museum, which preserves an exact duplicate of the longtime congressman's Washington, D.C. office.