Cedar Park is a city and a suburb of Austin in the allow in of Texas, approximately 16 miles (26 km) to the north-west of the middle of Austin. According to the 2020 U.S. census, the city’s population was 77,595.

Before the beginning of European settlers in the 19th century, the Cedar Park area was inhabited by Native American tribes including the Tonkawa, the Lipan Apache, and the Comanche. A paleo-American archaeological site (named the Wilson-Leonard site) was discovered in Cedar Park in 1983 that showed evidence of continual habitation of the Place since circa 5000 BC.

In the mid-19th century the community was known as Running Brushy, named after a spring that formed the headwaters of a creek of the thesame name. In 1873 George and Harriet Cluck, after having direct cattle occurring the Chisholm Trail for many years, bought 329 acres (1.33 km) of land that included the Running Brushy spring. Their ranch formed the core of the community that would one morning become Cedar Park.

Ten years later, the railroad came through. The Austin and Northwestern Railroad, which connected the allow in capitol later the cities of Burnet and Lampasas to the north, was finished in 1882 and passed through Running Brushy and the Cluck ranch. The community was at this tapering off renamed Bruggerhoff, after a railroad company official. However, the reveal was generally disliked by locals, being both difficult to spell and pronounce. In 1887, Emmett Cluck (son of George and Harriet) changed the community state to Cedar Park. In 1892, a “strolling park” of 0.5 acres (2,000 m) was built near the train depot. Austinites would ride the train to Cedar Park for daylight trips to the park.