Kinney County is a county in Texas, United States, on the Edwards Plateau along the Rio Grande, in the west-central part of the state. It had a population of 3,129 at the 2020 census and covers 1,365 square miles (3,540 km2), of which 5.1 square miles (13 km2) is water, centred near 29\u00b021\u2032N 100\u00b025\u2032W.<\/p>\n
Brackettville is the county seat, and its postal code is 78832. The county has two incorporated cities, one census-designated place, and several unincorporated communities and ghost towns. Kinney County sits in the Central Time Zone.<\/p>\n
Kinney County has just two incorporated places — Brackettville and Spofford — plus the census-designated place of Fort Clark Springs and a handful of small unincorporated settlements, several of them now ghost towns tied to the county’s ranching and military history. Texas has no civil-township layer, so the table below omits a township column.<\/p>\n
| Place<\/th>\n | Type<\/th>\n | Pop.<\/th>\n | ZIP<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brackettville<\/td>\n | City · seat<\/td>\n | 1,638<\/td>\n | 78832<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Spofford<\/td>\n | City<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | 78877<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Fort Clark Springs<\/td>\n | CDP<\/td>\n | 735<\/td>\n | 78832<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Alamo Village<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | 78832<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Amanda<\/td>\n | Unincorp. (ghost town)<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Anacacho<\/td>\n | Unincorp. (ghost town)<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Pinto<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Spofford Junction<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n Two names from older lists of Kinney County places — “Odlaw” and “Standart” — and “Lost Creek Place” could not be independently verified against current gazetteer or postal records and are omitted here rather than published unverified.<\/p>\n ZIP Codes<\/h2>\nMost of rural Kinney County outside these two ZIP service areas still receives mail through the Brackettville post office.<\/p>\n Geography<\/h2>\nKinney County lies on the southwestern edge of the Edwards Plateau, a rolling limestone upland cut by spring-fed creeks that drain south toward the Rio Grande. The Rio Grande itself forms the county’s southwestern boundary with Mexico’s Coahuila state, opposite the Jim\u00e9nez municipality. Elevations range from around 700 feet along the river to over 1,600 feet on the plateau’s caprock. Las Moras Creek, fed by Las Moras Springs at Fort Clark, is the county’s principal permanent stream.<\/p>\n |