Biohazard and Pathogen Disinfection in McGregor, TX

McGregor is a city sixteen miles southwest of Waco on U.S. Highway 84, straddling the line between McLennan County and Coryell County, so it sits in both the Waco and the Killeen-Temple metropolitan areas.

McGregor was established in 1882, first as McGregor Springs, at the intersection of the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe and the Texas and St. Louis railways, and was named in honor of Dr. Gregor Carmichael McGregor, who gave the railroad right-of-way across his land.

Town lots in McGregor were sold at auction on September 7, 1882, from the back of a railroad flatcar, after excursion trains were advertised in newspapers across Texas.

McGregor incorporated in 1886, and its first school, the McGregor Academy, had already opened in 1883.

The city covers an unusually large 21.4 square miles, much of it taken up by the McGregor Industrial Park on the site of a former naval weapons plant.

During World War II the federal government built the Bluebonnet Ordnance Plant near McGregor in 1942, where workers manufactured high-explosive bombs and shells.

Since 2003 McGregor has been home to SpaceX's rocket engine development and test facility, where the company test-fires its Merlin and Raptor engines on about 4,300 acres of the old ordnance site.

SpaceX also flew its Grasshopper and Falcon 9 reusable test vehicles at McGregor between 2012 and 2014, and the rumble of engine tests is a familiar sound in town.

McGregor had 5,321 residents at the 2020 census, up from 4,987 in 2010, and the Census Bureau estimated the population had climbed to 6,405 by July 2025.

According to Census QuickFacts, McGregor has about 2,043 households, averaging 2.76 persons per household.