Biohazard and Crime Scene Remediation in Nixon, TX

Nixon is a city in Gonzales County, Texas, that also extends into Wilson County, at the junction of U.S. Highway 87, State Highway 97, and Farm Road 1117, about 26 miles southwest of the city of Gonzales.

The town was founded in 1906, when the Galveston, Harrisburg and San Antonio Railway built through the John T. Nixon Ranch and the Nixon family formed a land company to sell town lots.

Nixon's post office opened in 1906 under the name Nixonville, which was shortened to Nixon in 1908, and the town incorporated in 1912.

The settlement's roots run older: Robert T. Nixon founded the original community - now the ghost town of Old Nixon - in 1852 on a 14,000-acre plantation.

By 1914 Nixon had grown to 1,300 residents, with three cotton gins, three general stores, an independent school district, telephone service, and its own weekly newspaper, the Nixon News.

The 2020 census counted 2,341 people in Nixon, and recent Census survey estimates count about 822 households, roughly two-thirds of them owner-occupied.

Nixon's population dipped to 1,037 during the Depression in 1930 before recovering to 1,835 by 1940 and 2,186 by 2000.

Local railroad service to Nixon was discontinued around 1970, and by the mid-1980s poultry processing had become one of the town's leading industries.

Because Nixon straddles the county line, its Wilson County portion falls inside the San Antonio metropolitan area.

Nixon, which describes itself as a 'compact neighborhood,' covers about 1.6 square miles, all of it land.