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Geography. Driftwood lies along Farm to Market Road 150, 15 miles (24 km) northwest of Kyle and 24 miles (39 km) southwest of downtown Austin. San Marcos, the Hays county seat, is 25 miles (40 km) south of Driftwood via highway. [ 3 ] The community has a post office, with the ZIP code of 78619.
Johnson City is a city and the county seat of Blanco County, Texas, United States. [6] The population was 1,627 at the 2020 census. [ 3 ] [ 7 ] Founded in 1879, it was named for early settler James Polk Johnson, nephew to Sam E. Johnson, Sr. [ 8 ] Johnson City is part of the Texas-German belt region.
Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. Lyndon B. Johnson State Park and Historic Site is a state park located along the Pedernales River in Gillespie County, Texas, United States west of Johnson City and east of Fredericksburg. The state created the park with donated land to honor Lyndon B. Johnson as a "national and world leader."
The Salt Lick was opened in Driftwood in 1967 by Thurman Roberts, Sr. and his wife Hisako T. Roberts. [1] It quickly grew in popularity and went from being open just a few times a year to seven days a week. Roberts and Hisako built the Salt Lick restaurant on the ranch where he was born, using locally quarried limestone.
Lyndon B. Johnson National Historical Park is a United States National Historical Park in central Texas about 50 miles (80 km) west of Austin in the Texas Hill Country. [4] The park protects the birthplace, home, ranch, and grave of Lyndon B. Johnson, 36th president of the United States. [5] During Johnson's administration, the LBJ Ranch was ...
Dripping Springs is in northern Hays County on U.S. Route 290, which leads east 23 miles (37 km) to Austin and west 24 miles (39 km) to Johnson City. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 3.9 square miles (10.0 km 2), all land. [6] Most of the city drains southwest to Onion Creek, an east-flowing tributary ...
Democratic voters mostly reside along the I-35 Corridor and communities East. Communities West of the I-35 Corridor lean Republican. San Marcos, home of Texas State University, and the city of Kyle generally vote Democratic. Driftwood, Dripping Springs, Wimberley, and Woodcreek generally vote Republican.
Additionally Pedernales Falls State Park in Johnson City, and Inks Lake State Park in Burnet, are among the many other parks available in Central Texas. The largest nature preserve in the area is the Balcones Canyonlands National Wildlife Refuge, a preserve northwest of Austin near Burnet and Marble Falls comprising 21,436 acres (8,675 ha). [69]