Where is Ingram compared with Kerrville?
Ingram is about seven miles west of Kerrville, upstream on the Guadalupe River.
Kerr County · Guadalupe River · Upper-river corridor
Where Is Ingram, Texas?
Ingram sits on the Guadalupe River about seven miles west of Kerrville, near the mouths of Johnson and Indian creeks. On the map it is the next major community upstream from Kerrville before the river reaches Hunt and divides into forks.
Where is Ingram on the Texas Hill Country map?
Ingram is easiest to learn as part of a river sequence. Start with Kerrville. Move west upstream along the Guadalupe and you reach Ingram. Keep going and you reach Hunt, where the river splits into its North and South forks.
The town grew where river and creeks came together
The site sits on the Guadalupe at the confluence of Johnson and Indian creeks. J. C. W. Ingram bought six acres in 1879, opened a store and post office, and gave the community his name.
Early residents farmed, milled crops, cut cypress shingles and later raised sheep, goats and cattle. The narrow valley that made settlement possible also concentrated roads and businesses along the Guadalupe corridor.
The upper Guadalupe became vacation country
By the 1920s, tourism and seasonal residence had become important to Ingram. The river, cooler nights and limestone hills attracted camps, guest ranches and vacation homes. That pattern becomes even stronger upstream toward Hunt.
This is why Ingram can feel disproportionately important relative to its size: it sits on the route into one of the Hill Country’s most concentrated river-camp landscapes.
An arts foundation made the riverbank a cultural landmark
In 1958 the Hill Country Arts Foundation began in Ingram. Its campus beside the Guadalupe became a center for theater, visual arts and education. The outdoor Point Theatre uses the river landscape as part of its setting.
Decades later the campus acquired one of the strangest landmarks in Texas: Stonehenge II. Al Shepperd and Doug Hill created the replica as an art project on land near Hunt. After Shepperd’s death, the installation needed a permanent home and was moved piece by piece to the Hill Country Arts Foundation.
HCAF says the replica is about 90 percent the height and 60 percent the width of the original Stonehenge, with two Easter Island-style heads added for good measure. That gives Ingram a peculiar but memorable geography: a small Guadalupe River town with both a serious arts campus and a deliberately unexpected prehistoric-looking landmark.
One step upstream from Kerrville
The upper Guadalupe sequence
Learn Ingram as a river sequence: the forks join at Hunt, the Guadalupe runs east past Ingram, and Kerrville is the next town downstream.
A landmark that moved downstream
How Stonehenge II came to Ingram
Stonehenge II was built as an art project on land near Hunt, then relocated stone by stone to the Hill Country Arts Foundation in Ingram — roughly 90% the height and 60% the width of the real thing.
One step upstream
Can you pin Ingram?
Start just west of Kerrville on the Guadalupe, before the river reaches Hunt.
Tap or click the map to drop your pin.
Nearby Hill Country towns
The upper-Guadalupe cluster, measured from the game’s coordinate data.
- HuntKerr Co.5.7 mi west
- KerrvilleKerr Co.6.3 mi east
- HarperGillespie Co.15.3 mi north
- Center PointKerr Co.15.4 mi southeast
- MedinaBandera Co.19.5 mi south
- ComfortKendall Co.21.4 mi east
Approx. straight-line distances, measured from the game's coordinates — not driving distances.
Ingram map questions
What river runs through Ingram?
The Guadalupe River.
Where is Stonehenge II?
Stonehenge II is on the Hill Country Arts Foundation campus in Ingram.
Was Stonehenge II built in Ingram?
No. It was created on land near Hunt and later relocated stone-by-stone to Ingram.