Blood, Trauma, and Biohazard Cleanup in Kirbyville, TX

Kirbyville is a city in Jasper County in deep East Texas, standing on Trout Creek along U.S. Highway 96, about 18 miles south of Jasper.

Kirbyville was laid out in 1895 when the Gulf, Beaumont and Kansas City Railroad reached the site, and its first lots were sold on May 1, 1895.

The town was first named Kirby for lumber magnate John Henry Kirby, who planned it as a lumber-marketing town, but it became Kirbyville when the 1895 post office application found another Texas town already named Kirby.

John Henry Kirby founded the Kirby Lumber Company in 1901, and Kirbyville grew into a trade center for Jasper and Newton counties.

By 1914 Kirbyville had 2,900 residents, two banks, and its own newspaper, the Kirbyville Banner, founded in 1902; the city incorporated in 1926.

Texas State Forest No. 1 was established about three miles east of Kirbyville.

On September 24, 2005, Hurricane Rita passed very near Kirbyville, bringing wind gusts of up to 120 miles per hour that damaged buildings across town and left many residents without power for weeks.

The 2020 census counted 2,036 residents and 809 households in Kirbyville, spread over about 2.4 square miles.

Kirbyville's Calaboose Museum preserves artifacts of the city's history, and its Palace Theater hosts a Country Music Show on the second Saturday of every month.

R&B singer and songwriter Ivory Joe Hunter was born in Kirbyville in 1914.