Cedar Valley is an area in West Austin, Travis County, Texas, with 23,876. Eleven thousand seven hundred thirty-one male residents are living in Cedar Valley, and 12,145 female residents. The total number of households is 8,263, with three people per household on average. Cedar Valley is on U.S. Highway 290, twelve miles southwest of Austin in southwestern Travis County. Information concerning Austin, TX can be discovered here.
History
Mark Thomas, an early settler, gave land for a school in 1867. A post office opened in 1872 with Peter Wuthrich as postmaster. By the mid-1880s, Cedar Valley had two churches, a district school, and forty residents; area farmers shipped cotton, wool, and hides. The population of the community rose to 100 by the late 1930s but fell to fifty by 1949. The post office was discontinued in 1957, and mail for Cedar Valley was sent to Austin. The population increased to 150 in the late 1960s but stabilized at seventy from the 1970s through 2000. Information about Sunset Valley, Texas is a Fun-Filled Community can be found here.
Life Today
There’s not much in this area of Dallas. Few homes, a handful of businesses on the outer fringes, and the namesake Cedar Valley College are sparsely populated. Massive distribution centers have been built in the area with more planned—lots of roadwork underway to accommodate growth. For the basics like grocery stores and Walmart, neighboring Lancaster and nearby DeSoto have that.