Boerne
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city in and county seat of Kendall County, Texas, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Texas
- County
- Kendall
- Type
- Council–manager
- City council
- Mayor Frank Ritchie Ty Wolosin Joe Bateman Quinten Scott Bret Bunker Joseph Macaluso
- City manager
- Ben Thatcher
- Total
- 11.98 sq mi (31.02 km )
- Land
- 11.67 sq mi (30.23 km )
- Water
- 0.31 sq mi (0.79 km )
- Elevation
- 1,447 ft (441 m)
- Estimate 2021
- 19,109
- Density
- 1,529/sq mi (590.5/km )
- Time zone
- UTC-6 ( Central )
- Summer dst
- UTC-5 ( Central )
- Zip codes
- 78006, 78015
- Fips code
- 48-09160
- Website
- www .ci .boerne .tx .us
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- county seat
- Official name
- Boerne
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Kendall County
- Population
- 17850
- Area
- 25.709828
- Elevation
- 465
- Time zone
- Central Time Zone
- Capital of
- Kendall County
- Official website
- www.ci.boerne.tx.us
- Image
- Kendall county courthouse.jpg
- Households
- 5547
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- IPA transcription
- ˈbɜːrni
- Commons category
- Boerne, Texas
- topic's main category
- Category:Boerne, Texas
- inception
- 1849-00-00
- water as percent of area
- 3.0554
- per capita income
- 36529
- social media followers
- 22891
- postal code
- 78015
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Encyclopedic overview
Boerne (/ˈbɜːrni/ BURN-ee) is a city in and the county seat of Kendall County, Texas, United States, in the Texas Hill Country. Founded in 1849 as Tusculum, German settlers changed its name to Boerne, in honor of author and satirist Ludwig Börne, when it was platted in 1852. Boerne is known for its German-Texan history. Its population was 10,471 at the 2010 census, and in 2020 the population was 17,850. The city is noted for the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case City of Boerne v. Flores.
Boerne is part of the San Antonio–New Braunfels metropolitan statistical area.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Boerne” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.