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Kurten is a small town in northern Brazos County, Texas, at the crossroads of U.S. Highway 190, State Highway 21 and Farm Road 2038, about ten miles east of Bryan.

The town was founded by Henry Kurten, a German soldier who decided not to return to army life after a furlough in America ended; beginning in the early 1850s he hauled freight between Mexico and Brazos County.

In 1864 Kurten bought half of a Mexican land grant and began bringing settlers over from Germany, planting a German farming community that still bears his name.

A post office was established at Kurten in 1890, and by 1896 the town had an estimated 300 residents, twelve businesses, and Baptist and Methodist churches.

The community later shrank back — its population was listed at just 100 from the 1920s through the 1960s and about 150 in 2000, even as a cluster of businesses hung on.

After well over a century as an unincorporated community, Kurten finally incorporated as a town in 2000.

The 2020 census counted 395 residents in Kurten, and Census figures show more than 90 percent of its housing is owner-occupied — a stable, rural community inside the fast-growing Bryan–College Station metropolitan area.

Kurten is the third-largest city in Brazos County, behind only Bryan and College Station.