| Waring is an unincorporated
community in northwestern Kendall County, Texas, United
States. It lies along local roads and the Guadalupe River,
northwest of the city of Boerne, the county seat of Kendall
County. Its elevation is 1,345 feet. Although Waring is
unincorporated, it has a post office, with the ZIP code of
78074 Waring is on the banks of the
Guadalupe River, seven miles downstream from Comfort and twelve
miles north of Boerne in Kendall County. It was founded in 1887 and
originally known as Waringford, when R. P. M. Waring, a native of
Waringford, Ireland, provided a right-of-way for the San Antonio and
Aransas Pass Railway for its Kerrville line. In 1888 the post office
from Windsor, a neighboring community, was moved across the
Guadalupe River to Waringford. On February 10, 1901, the town's name
was shortened to Waring. The population of Waring remained between
100 and 150 from 1890 until 1914, when it reached a high of 300.
During these years the town had two general stores, a corn and grist
mill, a gin, a stone quarry, a lumberyard, a hotel and boarding
house, and several stores. Around 1950 the population decreased to
eighty, and only a post office and two businesses remained. Train
service was discontinued in 1970. In 1990 the population was
seventy-three. The population remained the same in 2000.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Eva Blaschke, comp, The Waring Story, Commissioned by
the Waring Thimble Club (MS, Center for American History, University
of Texas at Austin, 1976). |
