Marble Falls Texas - For a Weekend or a Lifetime

Marble Falls, Texas is one of 45 cities/areas located in the Texas Hill Country.

Marble Falls, Texas was named for the Colorado River waterfalls flowing over marble outcroppings. Hunting, fishing and camping activities are popular activities in the Marble Falls, Texas area. Native game fish abound in the area's lakes and streams. Fall and winter hunting seasons offer plentiful white-tailed deer, wild turkey and excellent wing shooting of migratory and native game birds.

Marble Falls, Texas is a stone's throw from Horseshoe Bay, Texas  , a world-class residential and resort community.

Discover the lakes, hills and history of neighboring Burnet, Texas , north on Hwy 281.

Just east of Marble Falls, Texas is Lago Vista, Texas , which enjoys over 15 miles of shoreline on the north side of Lake Travis. It is also a short drive fromSpicewood, Texas .


The Fox Memorial Marker is a monument overlooking the Colorado River and the scenic Hill Country. It is dedicated to Oscar J. Fox, composer of the classic popular song, "Hills of Home." It is located in a roadside park on U.S. 281, just south of Marble Falls, Texas.

Granite Mountain is a huge dome of high-quality pink and red granite, prized worldwide. Quarrying began in Marble Falls, Texas in the 1880s for construction of the Texas Capitol. An unending flow of the superb material has continued ever since, yet the bulk of the dome has hardly been diminished. Visitors are not admitted to the quarry area.

The Marble Falls, Texas area has several Scenic Drives. R.M. 1431 offers breathtaking scenery to both the northwest and southeast over winding curves and hills, with frequent glimpses of the Highland Lakes. Spring scenes are exceptionally beautiful. Both R.M. 2147, along the western shore of Lake Marble Falls, and Texas 71, through the Hill Country, are routes to be remembered.

Lake Marble Falls, a small 780-acre impoundment on the Colorado River, is one of a series of the Highland Lakes. Fishing is good all year. Boating, sailing, swimming and skiing are very popular. There are launching ramps, city parks, picnic facilities and a swimming pool at the lakeside. The lake is impounded within Marble Falls, Texas. It winds nearly six miles up the Colorado River.

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About the City of Marble Falls

FOUNDED: By General Adam R. "Stovepipe" Johnson on July 12, 1887.

INCORPORATED: 1907

POPULATION: 7,200
24.459 (10-mile radius); 62,806 (20-mile radius); 243,198 (30-mile radius)

SIZE: 10.21 square miles

COUNTY: Burnet

LOCATION: Marble Falls is located in the middle of the Texas Hill Country on the Colorado River, 47 miles northwest of Austin, 85 miles north of San Antonio, in the middle of the Highland Lakes area, the largest chain of lakes in Texas.

WHERE DID THE NAME MARBLE FALLS ORIGINATE? Marble Falls sits on the banks of Lake Marble Falls. The falls were formed by a shelf of limestone running diagonally across the river from northeast to southwest. The upper layer of limestone, brownish on the exterior but deep blue inside, was so hard and cherty it was mistaken for marble. The falls were actually three distinct formations at the head of a canyon 1.25 miles long, with a drop of some 50 feet through the limestone strata. The natural lake was covered when the Colorado River was dammed with the completion of Max Starcke Dam in 1951. Lake Marble Falls sits between Lake LBJ to the north and Lake Travis to the south. The falls for which the City is named are now underwater, but are revealed every few years when the lake is lowered by the Lower Colorado River Authority for repairs.

TAXATION - Property in Burnet County is appraised at market value by the Burnet Central Appraisal District. The City of Marble Falls, Burnet County and the Marble Falls Independent School District exempt inventories held for under 175 days and exported from the State of Texas. This "Triple Freeport" exemption applies to all locations and industrial parks in the City of Marble Falls.

2006 Property Tax Rates (per $100 assessed value)
City of Marble Falls - $.3950
Burnet County- $.3553
Burnet County Special - $.0254
Central Texas Groundwater - $.01653
Marble Falls ISD - $1.4716
Total Rate $2.26383

City Sales Tax Rate - 2.00%
State Sales Tax Rate - 6.25%
Total Rate - 8.25%

Sales Tax Exemptions - groceries, prescriptions

Corporate of Personal Income Tax - none in Texas

State Franchise Tax - * 4.50%/2.50%
*per $1000 net taxable income/taxable capital
Texas has no corporate or personal income tax

MEDIAN HOUSING COST: $84,000

COST OF LIVING: Average

CLIMATE: Marble Falls area temperatures are moderate year-round. The climate is warm in the summers, but cooled by the lakes and hills in the region. Winters are mild and outdoor activities such as golf and tennis can be played throughout the year.

Average Daily Summer Temperature - 85°F
Average Daily Winter Temperature - 55°F
Average Yearly Snowfall - Trace
Average Yearly Rainfall - 30 inches
Average Relative Humidity - 40%

GEOGRAPHY
Average elevation - 764 feet
Longitude - 30.32
Latitude - 98.31
City of Marble Falls Land Area - 6.1 square miles
Burnet County Land Area - 996.0 square miles