Biohazard and Crime Scene Remediation in Uhland, TX

Uhland is a small city that straddles the Hays–Caldwell county line in Central Texas, on Farm Road 21 about eleven miles northeast of San Marcos.

Uhland is named after Ludwig Uhland, the German poet, and like its neighbor Niederwald it was settled by German emigrants in the region known as the Texas-German belt.

The community developed in the 1890s on the site of the former Live Oak community, and it had its own post office from 1892 to 1902.

For more than half a century Uhland's businessmen served the ranchers and cotton farmers around Plum Creek, and by 1910 the community had a cotton gin and two stores.

Uhland stayed tiny for decades — just 140 residents in 1950 and only 90 in 1970 — before Austin-area growth began to reach it.

Uhland incorporated in 1985, when its population was still only in the hundreds.

The city's population jumped from 386 in 2000 to 1,014 in 2010 and 1,588 at the 2020 census, a growth of more than 56% in a single decade.

Uhland covers about 2.8 square miles of land, all of it land with no water area.

Developers have targeted Uhland in recent years because of its location near the fast-growing cities of Kyle and Lockhart, and home platting suggests thousands of additional residents could arrive soon.