Unattended Death and Biohazard Cleanup in Mountain City, TX

Mountain City is a small incorporated city in central Hays County, about twelve miles north of San Marcos in the Texas Hill Country.

The community was originally settled by Phillip Allen and perhaps three other families in 1846, and it developed before the Civil War as the supply center for an extensive farming and ranching community.

From the early 1850s until the 1880s, Mountain City was a sprawling hub on the old Stagecoach Road, stretching from the Blanco River near present-day Kyle all the way to Manchaca Springs northeast of present-day Buda; its post office opened in 1860.

The historic community faded over time, and the modern city exists because a subdivision previously known as Mountain City Oaks incorporated on the site in 1984 and took the Mountain City name.

In 1988 the newly incorporated community was publishing its own weekly newspaper, the Onion Creek Free Press.

The 2020 census counted 622 residents in Mountain City — down slightly from 671 in 2000 — within just 0.53 square miles at about 840 feet above sea level.

Mountain City is a purely residential enclave of large-lot homes; the 2010 census counted only about 229 housing units in the entire city.