Harwood is an unincorporated community in northern Gonzales County, Texas, set along U.S. Highway 90 in the rolling farmland of South Central Texas. It sits about one mile north of Interstate 10, placing it directly between the small city of Luling to the west and Gonzales, the county seat, to the southeast, and roughly midway along the corridor between San Antonio and Houston. The surrounding landscape is classic Texas brush-and-prairie country, given over to cattle ranching and crop farming. The community was founded in 1874 as a stop on the Galveston, Harrisburg and San Antonio Railway during the railroad's westward expansion across the region. The railroad shaped the town's early life, providing a shipping point for the surrounding farms and ranches and drawing merchants and residents to the new depot. Harwood was named for Thomas Moore Harwood, an attorney who moved to Texas in 1850 and established a law practice in nearby Gonzales a few years later, and whose name was attached to the settlement as it grew around the rail line. Like many rural railroad towns, Harwood has remained small. Its population has hovered around 100 residents, and the community has never incorporated, functioning instead as a crossroads service point for the agricultural countryside. It retains a post office serving the 78632 ZIP code, and the railroad that founded it continues to pass through the area, now as part of the Southern Pacific corridor. Today Harwood is a quiet, sparsely populated place where farming and ranching still define the landscape. Students attend the Gonzales Independent School District, with families driving to the county seat for school and services. For buyers and residents, Harwood offers the rural end of the Texas real-estate spectrum: open land, privacy, and a low-key agricultural setting, with the convenience of Interstate 10 and U.S. Highway 90 keeping the larger cities of the region within reach.