| Official Name: | New Fountain, Texas |
| Settlement Type: | Ghost town |
| Pushpin Map: | Texas |
| Pushpin Image: | Relief map of Texas.png |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location within the state of Texas |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | United States |
| Subdivision Type1: | State |
| Subdivision Name1: | Texas |
| Subdivision Type2: | County |
| Subdivision Name2: | Medina |
| Unit Pref: | Imperial |
| Timezone: | Central (CST) |
| Utc Offset: | -6 |
| Timezone Dst: | CDT |
| Utc Offset Dst: | -5 |
| Elevation Ft: | 853 |
| Coordinates: | 29.3867°N -99.06°W |
| Postal Code Type: | ZIP code |
| Area Code: | 830 |
| Blank Name: | FIPS code |
| Blank Info: | 48-50928[1] |
| Blank1 Name: | GNIS feature ID |
| Blank1 Info: | 1380889 |
New Fountain is a ghost town established in 1846. It is located west of Quihi and east northeast of Hondo in Medina County in the U.S. state of Texas. It was part of empresario Henri Castro's colonization of the Medina River valley in the Republic of Texas.[2]
New Fountain, was a settlement founded in 1846, by Henri Castro's colonists from the nearby settlement of Vandenburg. When the springs upstream on Verde Creek dried up they moved to a new water source found four miles downstream, calling their settlement New Fountain for the spring. In 1857, New Fountain was the fourth post office to be established in Medina County which remained until 1914.[3] By 1858, Rev. John Schaper had organized a Methodist church,[4] which with its cemetery, is now the last vestige of this old settlement remaining. By 1860 New Fountain had besides the Methodist church, a mill, and a Masonic lodge and was a stagecoach stop on the San Antonio-El Paso Road. A New Fountain School was established in 1876, and by 1896 the community had a population of 400.[5]