Kerr County is fifty miles northwest of San Antonio in the Edwards Plateau region of south central Texas. The irregularly shaped county is bounded on the northeast by Gillespie County, on the east by Kendall County, on the south by Bandera County, on the southwest by Real County, on the west by Edwards County, and on the northwest by Kimble County. The county was named for James Kerr, an Old Three Hundred colonist and an important figure in the Texas Revolution.
Courtesy of The Handbook of Texas Online |