Mountain Home is a small unincorporated community in Kerr County, Texas, set in the northwestern part of the county in the Texas Hill Country. Ranching has always been the community's principal business, and the surrounding land is blanketed with working ranches that give the area its economic and social character. The community was briefly known as Eura in the early 20th century before taking its present name. Mountain Home is best known as the location of the Y.O. Ranch, an authentic 19th-century working ranch that houses a variety of exotic animals and draws visitors from across the country. The community is also home to a cluster of rural institutions, including the Texas Catholic Boys Camp, established by the Society of Mary in 1951; the Texas Fisheries Research Station; and the Hill Country Cowboy Camp Meeting. Mountain Home's population has always been small — about 150 residents in 1946, and roughly 60 people within a one-mile radius of the post office by the 1980s, with that post office serving some 350 area families. The community has long included a store, a motel, and a church, serving the ranches and camps scattered across the surrounding Hill Country. The community's unincorporated status and its setting among the hills, creeks, and ranchlands of Kerr County keep it a quiet, spread-out place. Life here revolves around ranching, hunting, summer camps, and the outdoors, with residents drawing on nearby towns such as Kerrville and Hunt for schools, shopping, and services. The Hill Country's scenic terrain — its limestone hills, springs, and wildlife — frames Mountain Home's identity, and the area's long ranching tradition continues to shape how the land is used and how the community lives.