Gatesville

Gatesville is a city in and the county seat of Coryell County, Texas, United States. The population was 15,751 at the 2010 census. The city has five of the eight prisons and state jails for women operated by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. One of the facilities, the Mountain View Unit, has the state's death row for women.Gatesville is part of the Killeen - Temple - Fort Hood Metropolitan Statistical Area.GeographyThe city is located northeast of the center of Coryell County at, on the east side of the Leon River, part of the Brazos River watershed.The city is 30mi from Waco. It is midway between Austin and Fort Worth.U.S. Route 84 runs through the city, leading east to Waco and west to Goldthwaite. Texas State Highway 36 passes through the east side of the city, leading northwest to Hamilton and southeast to Temple.