Junction: Where Two Rivers Meet

The county seat of Kimble County is named for exactly what you can see from the highway: the point where the North Llano River and the South Llano River join to form the Llano. The confluence gave the settlement its character and, eventually, its name. The town was first called Denman after its surveyor when it was founded in the spring of eighteen seventy-six, then became Junction City in eighteen seventy-seven, and finally simply Junction in eighteen ninety-four.

It won the county seat from the flood-prone settlement of Kimbleville in late eighteen seventy-six. By eighteen seventy-nine it had a drugstore, a livery stable, a sawmill, and several general stores. Today Junction anchors the eastern Hill Country, a crossroads for ranching families and hunters working the Edwards Plateau cedar and oak country on either side of the Llano.