a restaurant, a golf course, a swimming pool, an RV park, and an airstrip. The Lajitas Museum, which contained artifacts from the Big Bend area, was located just east of Lajitas. The old trading post also remained operational. The population remained at 50 in 1990 and grew to 75 from 2000 to 2010. Starting in the 1980s as a joke, for many years the purported mayor of Lajitas was Clay Henry III, a "beer-drinking" goat. After two replacements of the original Clay Henry, the trading post and stable where the actual mayor lived is now closed and they goat no longer resides there. The election included incumbent human mayor Tommy Steele, as well as a trading post wooden Indian named Kevin Zinter, and a dog named Buster. Since Clay Henry, goats have been mayors of the community ever since. Geography Lajitas is located on the eastern end of the Big Bend Ranch State Park. It is located on a bluff overlooking the Rio Grande at San Carlos ford of the old Comanche Trail, in the northern part of the Chihuahuan Desert in southwestern Brewster County. It is also located south of Alpine and east of Presidio. Columnar basalt that is similar to that of the Devils Postpile National Monument in California can be found in a high desert dry river falls area just north of Lajitas. Climate Lajitas has a hot arid climate with very hot summers and mild winters. Economy The Lajitas Golf Resort and Spa is a 20,000-acre golf resort business in Lajitas owned by Texas businessman Kelcy Warren, who bought the resort from previous owner Steve Smith while the business was going through financial distress. It is located on the Rio Grande, bordering Mexico, between Big Bend National Park and Big Bend Ranch State Park. The Robert E. Lee on Traveller statue is on display at the resort. Education Lajitas is zoned to schools in the Terlingua Common School District. Before that, Lajitas had a school with 50 students in 1912. H.W. McGuirk also funded the construction of a school. Media In the 1970s the community had one telephone, and newspapers were delivered one day later than their normal dates. Additionally, there were no televisions, the latter a rarity among communities in the decade. Frank Q. Dobbs directed his first film, Enter the Devil, in Lajitas in 1972. The TV miniseries, Streets of Laredo was also filmed