20 Facts About Georgetown Texas

Georgetown Texas has a notable range of Victorian commercial and residential architecture.

The site is immediately southwest of Georgetown and was discovered by accident by Texas Department of Transportation workers while core samples for a new highway were being drilled.

Georgetown Texas was named for George Washington Glasscock, who donated the land for the new town.

Georgetown Texas was an agrarian community for most of the 19th and early 20th centuries.

At one time, Georgetown was served by two national railroads, the International-Great Northern Railroad, which eventually was merged into the Missouri Pacific, and the Missouri–Kansas–Texas Railroad.

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Georgetown Texas is served today by the Georgetown Texas Railroad, a 'short line' railroad that uses portions of the former M-K-T and the I-GN to connect with the Union Pacific Railroad at Round Rock and at Granger.

The 1914 Georgetown Collegians began play as charter members of the Class D level Middle Texas League.

Two years after Georgetown Texas initiated its Main Street program, more than half the Main Street district had undergone some kind of positive transition.

Today, Georgetown Texas is home to one of the best-preserved Victorian and pre-WW1 downtown historic districts, with the Beaux-Arts Williamson County Courthouse as its centerpiece.

Portions of Georgetown are located on either side of the Balcones Escarpment, a fault line in which the areas roughly east of IH-35 are flat and characterized by having black, fertile soils of the Blackland Prairie, and the west side of the escarpment which consists mostly of hilly, karst-like terrain with little topsoil and higher elevations and which is part of the Texas Hill Country.

Winters in Georgetown Texas have highs in the 50s and 60s, with a few days dropping near freezing, causing one or two ice storms per season.

Georgetown Texas has more than 225 days classified as mostly sunny to sunny, among a total of more than 300 days of at least partly cloudy skies per year.

Originally, when first conceived, a Georgetown Texas route was very much in doubt, as most alignments had the road going through or near Taylor.

Second-largest economic development activity in Georgetown history was the selection in 1995 of Georgetown as the site for the first-ever Sun City location in Texas.

Sun City Georgetown Texas is made up mostly of single-family dwellings, but has duplexes.

Georgetown Texas is considered to be one of the best places to retire in the nation because of its fairly warm climate year round, close proximity to both the countryside and Austin, excellent medical care including Alzheimer's care, and its increasing population of retirees.

In 2007, Georgetown Texas was named by Retirement Places Rated as the Best Place in America to Retire.

Georgetown Texas's projected power expenditures were $33 million for 2016 ; $39 million for 2017 and $45 million for 2018 .

Georgetown Texas opened a second high school, East View High, in 2008.

Georgetown Texas is the home of Southwestern University, a private, four-year, undergraduate, liberal arts college.