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San Marcos (/ ˌ s æ n ˈ m ɑːr k ə s /) is a city and the county seat of Hays County, Texas, United States. The city is a part of the Greater Austin Metropolitan Area. San Marcos's limits extend into Caldwell and Guadalupe counties, as well. San Marcos is on the Interstate 35 corridor between Austin and San Antonio.
The Battle of San Jacinto, which won Texas its independence from Mexico. San Jacinto is Spanish for Saint Hyacinth: 28,936: 571 sq mi (1,479 km 2) San Patricio County: 409: Sinton: 1836: One of the original 23 counties: Its former county seat San Patricio de Hibernia, an Irish colony named for Saint Patrick: 70,660: 692 sq mi (1,792 km 2) San ...
Hays County Annex Building across from the courthouse in San Marcos Hays County Veterans Monument in San Marcos. Hays County is a county in the central portion of the U.S. state of Texas. [1] It is part of the Austin-Round Rock metropolitan area. As of the 2020 census, its official population had reached 241,067. [2] The county seat is San ...
San Marcos: Recorded Texas Historic Landmark 21: Fisher Hall: August 26, 1983 : 1132 Belvin St. San Marcos: Recorded Texas Historic Landmark; Historic Resources of San Marcos MRA; destroyed by fire in 2007 [6] 22
The Hays County Courthouse is an historic courthouse located in San Marcos, Hays County, Texas. It was built in the Classical Revival style in 1908. It is recognized by both the National Register of Historic Places and Texas Historical Commission .
Loop 82 is located in San Marcos. The southern terminus of Loop 82 is at Interstate 35 (I-35) exit 204A; the route travels along Guadalupe Street to the north of the exit, while Texas State Highway 123 begins in the other direction. At Grove Street, the route splits along a pair of one-way streets, with northbound traffic using LBJ Drive and ...
State Highway 21 (SH 21) runs from the Texas-Louisiana boundary east of San Augustine to San Marcos in east and central Texas. SH 21 mostly follows the alignment of the Old San Antonio Road and the El Camino Real, except for the portion between Midway and Bryan, where the Old San Antonio Road took a more northerly route, and SH 21 follows a more direct route.
In 1807 the San Marcos de Neve settlement (modern San Marcos) was established on the San Marcos River. [10] Following the independence of Mexico, of which Texas was a part, the empresario Stephen F. Austin issued grants to settlers in what is now Bastrop and Fayette Counties.