Zodiac is a vanished Mormon settlement established in 1847 on the Pedernales River, located 4 miles (6.4 km) southeast of Fredericksburg, in Gillespie County, in the U.S. state of Texas.

The group first entered Texas at Grayson County, at a site known as Mormon Grove,[5] where they spent the winter months before moving on during the spring thaw, arriving in Austin in June 1846.

Upon settling at a site on the Pedernales River in Gillespie County, Wight and his followers set about to erect the structures of their community.

[7] United States boundary commissioner John Russell Bartlett[8] had been charged to carry out the provisions of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.

The entire charge for the dinner for twelve persons and corn for as many animals was $3.In 1851, the Pedernales River overflowed its banks and destroyed the Mormon mills.

[7] If that claim is accurate, this is possibly the property on which future Texas State Senator Matthew Gaines[12] was forced to work as a runaway slave during the Civil War.