WEST KERR CHAMBER GUIDE

Ingram incorporated in 1981
and elected a Mayor, Donald
Oehler; City Marshal, Charlie
Lee; and five Councilmen, Don
Williams, Bruce Kimbrow, Vernon
Burns, Monroe Schlabach,
and Ed Lange.
Today the Mayor is James
Salter and Mayor Pro-tem
is Brandon Rowan. 2015
Councilpersons are Jimmy Lopez,
John St. Clair and Shirley Trees.
The City Marshal, Rowan Zachry,
is appointed by the Council.
The Ingram Volunteer Fire Department
was started in 1959.
The Ingram City Park is located on
Hwy 27 with the entrance between Wells
Fargo and Edward Jones buildings. The
Park offers a playground, access to the
Guadalupe River, walking path and a
pavilion (with a kitchen and restrooms
available with reservations).
Future growth for Ingram and the
surrounding area are very positive with
the new sewer lines being installed and
requests from area businesses asking
to be annexed into the city. For more
information, visit us on-line:
www.cityofingram.
Hunt
Not an incorporated town, but “Hunt
happenings” really do happen on a daily
basis (in a tranquil way) at the confluence
of the North and South Forks of the
beautiful Guadalupe River. Hunt offers The
Hunt Store (that plays seasonal live music),
a post office, restaurants, 1 school, 2
churches and a recovery center. When you
happen to “sit a spell” here you will want to
make this area your home permanently.
The community began in 1912;
however, the visible history of dinosaur
tracks in the river bed of the South Fork
of the Guadalupe River, west of Hunt,
tells us there were other inhabitants some
115 million years ago.Youth camps and
summer homes were being built as early
as the 1920’s and are still a summertime
Mecca worldwide.
Four miles west on Hwy. 39 is home
to the oldest outdoor rodeo and dancehall
still in active use, Criders. Criders is
famous for many a youth learning the two
step and chastise dancing under the stars
after the rodeo. Thousands of people come
here because the stars at night, are big and
bright, da da da da…, deep in the heart
of Texas! (rodeo & dance are open from
Memorial Day Weekend through Labor
Day weekend each year)
M
ountain Home
The community, 12 miles west from
Ingram on Hwy 27, has a post office and
blinking light and has had its name since
1923 when Mrs. Olive Estes changed
it from Ura. One reason for the name
change was the large two-story house
that sat close to the road from Johnson
Creek where folks could look up
and see the “mountains”. Not big
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