Biohazard and Crime Scene Remediation in Tolar, TX

Tolar is a small city in Hood County, Texas, on U.S. Highway 377 about seven miles southwest of Granbury, and part of the Granbury micropolitan area.

Tolar was first settled around 1890, when the tracks of the Fort Worth and Rio Grande Railway reached the area, and its post office opened that same year.

The community was named by W. L. McGaughey in honor of his friend Alf Tolar, who lived in Abilene.

Within a decade of its founding Tolar was a farm-and-ranch trade center with a cotton gin, general store, and blacksmith shop, and by 1914 its population had reached 460; by the mid-1920s it had a high school, a bank, and a weekly newspaper.

Tolar covers only about 0.94 square miles, all of it land.

After shrinking to just 283 residents in 1960, Tolar has grown fast in recent decades, from 504 people in 2000 to 681 in 2010 and 941 at the 2020 census — a 38% jump in the last decade alone.

The 2020 census counted 298 households and 336 housing units in Tolar, and more than half of its households had children under 18 living in them.

Tolar is a notably young town, with a median age of just 31.0 years at the 2020 census.

Local students attend Tolar Independent School District, which serves roughly 895 students across three campuses, and Tolar High School's teams are the Rattlers.