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Kyle is a city in Hays County on Interstate 35 between Austin and San Marcos, about 21 miles southwest of downtown Austin.

Kyle was founded on July 24, 1880, as a station town on the International-Great Northern Railroad, by settlers drawn from the nearby communities of Blanco and Mountain City.

The town is named for Fergus Kyle, who with David E. Moore established the town and helped bring the railroad through this part of Hays County.

Kyle incorporated in 1928 as a general-law city with a mayor and five council members.

In 1937, Fergus Kyle's daughter Mary Kyle Hartson was elected mayor on a write-in vote, and Kyle became the only town in Texas with an all-woman city government.

For most of its history Kyle was a quiet farm and railroad town — it had just 5,314 residents as recently as the 2000 census.

Kyle then exploded with Austin's suburban growth, jumping to 28,016 residents in 2010 and 45,697 in the 2020 census, a 63% increase in a single decade that made it one of Texas' fastest-growing cities.

Census Bureau estimates put Kyle's population near 70,000 by 2025, and surveys count about 20,714 households in the city.

Kyle is known as the Pie Capital of Texas.

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Katherine Anne Porter grew up in her grandmother's house on Center Street in Kyle; the restored home is now the Katherine Anne Porter Literary Center, run with Texas State University and designated a National Literary Landmark in 2002.