Six Crosses, TX

Six Crosses is a city in and the county seat of Blackrock County, Texas. The city is about 100 miles west of Kerrville and 70 miles north of Del Rio. The oldest building in Six Crosses is the San Felipe Mission, which dates back to 1736, and this is generally considered to be the founding date of the town, though residences would not appear meaningfully for some decades, and the name Six Crosses would not appear until the 1800s.

The city has a population of 84,673 as of a 2016 city census.

History

Six Crosses was founded in 1736 with the establishment of the San Felipe Mission. It remained a small trade town with a limited or migrant population through the 1800s, having a population of 122 in the 1870 census. In 1904, a weather event would render the local city of Blackrock uninhabitable, increasing the population of Six Crosses substantially.

The city saw another population boom in the 30s as oil was discovered