Bend is an unincorporated community in San Saba and Lampasas county, Texas ( USA ). It is located on Farm to Market Road 580 at a horseshoe-shaped bend in the Colorado River and has a population of 115. Settlement of the area began in the mid-1800s. In 1854, the community took the name Schleicher's Bend, after an early settler Gustav Schleicher. By 1856, it was called McAnelly's Bend after Robert Daugherty McAnelly, a landowner on the Lampasas side of the river. When the application for a post office on the San Saba side of the river was made in the late 1870s, the names Little Breeches and Bend were submitted; the Bend Post Office opened in 1879 and has continuously operated ever since. Bend had a population of approximately 400 in 1890. For most of the twentieth century, however, the community recorded 100 to 125 residents.