Kerr County · North Fork + South Fork Guadalupe

Where Is Hunt, Texas?

Hunt is about 12 miles west of Kerrville at the junction of the North and South forks of the Guadalupe River. On the map, move west from Kerrville through Ingram until the upper Guadalupe splits into two branches. Hunt is the town at the fork.

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Map showing Hunt where the North and South forks of the Guadalupe River meet west of Kerrville — Hunt on the upper Guadalupe — west of Ingram at the fork between the North and South branches.

Where is Hunt on the Texas Hill Country map?

Hunt is the western end of a simple upper-Guadalupe sequence: Kerrville → Ingram → Hunt. At Hunt, the river branches. The North Fork heads into one canyon system and the South Fork into another. Once you see the Y-shape, the town becomes hard to forget.

The settlement followed the river upstream from Kerrville

Anglo-American settlement reached this part of Kerr County in the late 1850s as families moved west from Kerrville along the Guadalupe valley in search of ranch and farm land. Water and the valley floor dictated the path.

The first post office in the vicinity was Japonica, several miles north, in 1880. The post office called Hunt did not open at the forks until 1913. It took the name of R. F. Hunt, who owned the land where the store and postal operation stood.

The river forks created a resort geography

Since the 1920s, Hunt has been the center of one of the most concentrated camp and guest-ranch regions in the Hill Country. The reason is visible on the map: two spring-fed river branches, narrow valleys, high limestone hills and enough road access to connect the area back to Kerrville.

Summer camps and vacation homes lined the river branches. Guest ranches followed the same logic. Hunt’s economy therefore became seasonal and visitor-oriented even though the town itself remained tiny.

Hunt is a better geographic label than a conventional town center

Unlike Fredericksburg, there is no large square or dense urban grid to learn. “Hunt” is better understood as the named center of an upper-river landscape. The forks, camps, ranches and vacation houses spread along miles of river beyond the post-office dot.

That distinction makes Hunt excellent game material: the pin represents a community whose actual human geography follows water rather than streets.

Stonehenge II began in the Hunt countryside

One final odd connection ties Hunt to Ingram. The Stonehenge II art project was originally built on private land near Hunt before being moved to the Hill Country Arts Foundation in Ingram. So even one of Ingram’s most visible landmarks began farther upstream in Hunt country.

The fork in the river

The Guadalupe forks at Hunt

Y-shaped hydrology diagram: the North and South forks of the Guadalupe meet at Hunt, then flow east past Ingram to Kerrville

Hunt is the fork: the North and South branches of the Guadalupe meet here, then flow east past Ingram to Kerrville.

Why the camps cluster

Why camp country clusters here

Schematic: summer camps and guest ranches cluster along the narrow North Fork and South Fork valleys around Hunt, with road access back toward Kerrville

Two spring-fed forks, narrow valleys and road access back to Kerrville explain why the Hill Country’s densest camp-and-guest-ranch country clusters around Hunt.

An odd downstream export

Stonehenge II: Hunt → Ingram

Diagram: the Stonehenge II replica was built near Hunt and later relocated to the Hill Country Arts Foundation in Ingram

Even Ingram’s Stonehenge II started in Hunt country — built on land near Hunt before it was moved downstream to the arts campus in Ingram.

Follow the Y

Can you pin Hunt?

Follow the Guadalupe west through Kerrville and Ingram until it forks.

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Nearby Hill Country towns

The upper-Guadalupe cluster, measured from the game’s coordinate data.

IngramKerr Co.5.7 mi east
KerrvilleKerr Co.11.7 mi east
HarperGillespie Co.16.7 mi north
MedinaBandera Co.19.7 mi south
Center PointKerr Co.19.9 mi southeast
VanderpoolBandera Co.26.1 mi southwest

Approx. straight-line distances, measured from the game's coordinates — not driving distances.

Hunt map questions

Where is Hunt compared with Kerrville?

Hunt is about 12 miles west of Kerrville.

What river is Hunt on?

Hunt is at the junction of the North and South forks of the Guadalupe River.

Why are there so many camps around Hunt?

The upper Guadalupe forks create long, scenic river valleys that became major camp and guest-ranch country beginning in the early twentieth century.

Was Stonehenge II originally in Hunt?

It was created on land near Hunt before being relocated to the Hill Country Arts Foundation in Ingram.