UVALDE COUNTY, named for Spaniard Juan de Ugalde,qv is in Southwest Texas midway between San Antonio and the International Amistad Reservoir on the United States-Mexico border. Uvalde County covers 1,588 square miles and the Nueces, Leona, Sabinal, Dry Frio, and Frio rivers flow through Uvalde County. At the intersection of U.S. highways 83 and 90 is Uvalde, the county seat. Other major towns are Knippa, Sabinal, and Utopia; minor towns are Cline, Montell, Concan, and Reagan Wells.

Artifacts discovered in various parts of the county indicate that people hunted and gathered in the future Uvalde County as long ago as 7000 B.C. After the establishment of San Antonio in 1718, the Uvalde County region was consistently traversed by Spanish soldiers, commercial packtrains, buffalo hunters, cattlemen, and mineral prospectors.

Not only recognized for its beautiful architecture, Uvalde is known as the "City of Trees" due to the huge live oak trees that were preserved during the layout of the town. The first seven streets, which ran east and west, were Leona, Mesquite, Oak, Nopal, Main, Garden, and Calera. The first five streets that ran north and south were Park, High, Getty, Camp, and Wood. The streets, that intersected the four town plazas, were, and still are, Main and Getty.