Blood, Trauma, and Biohazard Cleanup in Kingsland, TX

Kingsland is an unincorporated census-designated place in Llano County, set at the confluence of the Llano and Colorado rivers where they combine to form Lake Lyndon B. Johnson.

The community began as Kingsville, surveyed and platted in 1883 by Nancy Jane King and named for her late husband, Martin D. King, who had bought the townsite land with J. M. Trussell in 1877.

By 1901 the U.S. Post Office had renamed the community Kingsland because Texas already had a Kingsville in South Texas.

Growth took off after the Austin and Northwestern Railroad reached Llano through Kingsland in 1892, and the railroad interests built the Antlers Hotel, today a restored Recorded Texas Historic Landmark listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

A devastating fire in 1922 helped crash Kingsland's population from 750 in 1907 to just 150 by 1925, before Highland Lakes retirement and recreation businesses revived the community after the 1960s.

Lake LBJ was created in 1950 as Lake Granite Shoals and renamed for President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1965; as a constant-level lake it makes Kingsland a year-round boating and fishing hub.

The 2020 census counted 7,028 people and 2,854 households in the Kingsland CDP, up from just 2,241 people in 1980, the first census in which Kingsland appeared as a CDP.

The farmhouse from the 1974 film The Texas Chain Saw Massacre was moved from Round Rock to Kingsland in 1998 and now operates as a restaurant on the Antlers Hotel grounds.

Residents and tourists swim and sunbathe at "The Slab," where the road crosses the clear Llano River as it flows over natural granite slabs and boulders.

In October 2018, catastrophic flooding sent the Llano River up about 25 feet in 12 hours, inundating hundreds of Kingsland homes and collapsing the RM 2900 bridge.