Region: Hill Country
Kyle is eight miles north of San Marcos in Hays County, 20 miles south of
Austin. Here the Balcones Escarpment meets the Blackland Prairie. The town was
established on July 24, 1880, when David E. Moore and Fergus Kyle (for whom the
city was named) gave 200 acres for a town site to the International-Great
Northern Railroad. Lots were first sold in October 1880 at an auction held
beneath a live oak tree, now known as the Kyle Auction Oak. An 1895 election
incorporated the town, but voters discontinued the status two years later. It
was incorporated again in 1906. Farming and ranching add to the economy in this
fast-growing community.
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