Martindale is a city in Caldwell County, Texas, United States. It is allowance of the Austin metropolitan area. The population was 1,253 at the 2020 census.

The city hosts an egg hunt each Easter. Every Fourth of July, the town holds an Independence Parade leading to a town picnic at the oak-shaded river bottom.

In recent years, Martindale has as a consequence attracted a surprising number of film scouts that have been attracted to the town’s turn-of-the-century charm. As a result, various television shows, music videos and movies have been filmed in town most notably: A Perfect World, starring Clint Eastwood and Kevin Costner; The Newton Boys, starring Matthew McConaughey and Ethan Hawke; and New Line’s 2003 remake of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Over the years, each subsequent film crew has left its mark on the town. A strand of wood beams sits upon a vacant lot against the bank—all that remains of a saloon that was constructed for one of the westerns.

In 2004, Carlton Carl, a Washington D.C. lobbyist, purchased 36,000 square feet (3,300 m) of commercial property in downtown Martindale. A partial inventory of Carl’s buy includes three blank general stores, a former bank, a cotton-seed weigh station, several warehouses, a movie-set courtroom, an aquarium filled in the same way as cotton plants, a seed elevator, 16 seed silos and 300 feet (91 m) of frontage on the San Marcos River. Carl has been full of zip closely when the residents of Martindale to aspire the bordering phase of the town’s rejuvenation.