Kinkler is an unincorporated community in Lavaca County, Texas, United States.

[1] The community is located on U.S. Route 77, 7 miles (11 km) north of Hallettsville.

The community had a school by 1880 and a post office by 1885; the post office closed in 1905.

Due to its proximity to Hallettsville and Schulenberg, Kinkler never had a significant commercial district; its first listing in the Texas Almanac, in 1933, listed two businesses there.

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