Austin Mobile Hills was the name of a trailer park that operated from 1972 to 2008. Austin Mobile Hills operated at the location of 5101 Johnny Morris Road, Austin, Texas, US 78724. Austin Mobile Hills was also known as Austin Pecan Trailer Park before moving down south to Del Valle, Texas.
The land where Austin Mobile Hills/Austin Pecan Trailer Park property was once located was once a dairy farm. Land was sold for the Austin Mobile Hills/Austin Pecan Trailer Park to begin allowing home owners who had trailers to move in beginning in 1971. 1972 is when the reception office was built as a single story unit with 5 single rooms with a reception desk, a supply closet for maintenance supplies, storage a supply closet for maintenance storage, and a garage. Years of operation for the Austin Pecan Trailer Park were from 1972 to 2008. Low class people lived here. It was a rough area.
Part of Austin Mobile Hills/Austin Pecan Trailer Park relocated further up the road to 5105 Johnny Morris Road in 1999.
Now the Austin Mobile Hills/Austin Pecan Trailer Park was located inside a 25 year floodplain. It would flood there every 2 years. Trailers would be wiped out clean as a result from constant flooding. Mold grow inside these trailers after flooding happened. Vegetation surrounding the property made it difficult to retrieve personal belongings. 
As a result of constant flooding with the trailer park being located in a flood plain, in 2001, City of Austin bought out the land property where trailers once resided. City of Austin developed a flood buyout plan It took a total of 4 years from 2001 to 2005 for the City of Austin to buy out all the homeowners land plots for which their trailers were located on. All of the former Austin Mobile Hills/Austin Pecan Trailer Park property was abandoned by 2008.
Over the past 10 years, the former Austin Mobile Hills/Austin Pecan Trailer Park property for illegal dumping where citizens from Austin and Travis County would dump their unwanted items, trash, debris, auto parts, plywood, sheet metal, beer cans, and clothing. The City of Austin got contractors to haul in large rectangular limestone bricks to prevent access for illegal dumping.
To this day, only a building for the reception office, roof provision for where mailboxes were, and a shed for maintenance storage remain. The building for the reception office was still remains extant and a shed for maintenance storage remains extant. Trailers are no longer extant. 
Austin Mobile Hills/Austin Pecan Trailer Park was located at 5101 Johnny Morris Road, Austin, Texas, US 78724 and 5105 Johnny Morris Road, Austin, Texas, US 78724.
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