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Sabinal was founded in 1854 as Hammer's Station, where Thomas B. Hammer built a stage stop and became the first postmaster on the east bank of the Sabinal River in Uvalde County.

In 1856 the Second United States Cavalry established Camp Sabinal across the river to protect travelers on the San Antonio-to-El Paso road, though Hammer himself was killed by bandits in 1857.

Sabinal takes its name from the Sabinal River, whose name comes from the Spanish word for the cypress trees that line its banks.

The railroad reached Sabinal in 1881, and the town was incorporated in 1906, the same year telephone service began.

Sabinal Christian College, founded in 1907 by members of the Church of Christ, was the first college in the region, but it closed in 1917.

Sabinal sits on U.S. Highway 90 about twenty miles northeast of the city of Uvalde and is part of the Uvalde micropolitan statistical area.

Sabinal's population peaked at 1,974 in the 1950 census and was 1,364 at the 2020 census, down from 1,695 in 2010.

Recent Census Bureau survey estimates count roughly 565 households in Sabinal, averaging about two and a half people per household.

Because of its position near the Sabinal, Leona, Nueces, and Frio rivers, Sabinal is promoted as the "Gateway to the River Region" of the Texas Hill Country.

Country singer Johnny Rodriguez, known for hits like "Pass Me By (If You're Only Passing Through)," was born in Sabinal.