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Rice

The land before the town

Rice sits on the H. & T. C. railroad on the R. B. Scott grant, with the John Wood, Thomas M. Rowe and Covington grants around it. The names are the original land grants, as the General Land Office drew them in 1924. The whole county map →

Rice and the original land grants around it, General Land Office map, 1924
Courtesy of the Texas General Land Office, Austin. Map 73249, Navarro County, July 1924. Used under licence.

1921

Population 613

No public water works and no fire department: private wells and cisterns only. The H. & T. C. line runs through town, and the index also names a Texas Electric Railway depot, the interurban. Gins: Farmers' Union, Fortson Bros. and H. C. Noel. The Rice Cotton Yard & Warehouse Co., Rice Lumber Co., a Masonic hall, Rice High School, First Baptist and a Methodist memorial church, and a Colored Baptist church and M.E. church (Colored).

Rice Sanborn map, 1921, sheet 1 of 5
Sheet 1 of 5
Rice Sanborn map, 1921, sheet 2 of 5
Sheet 2 of 5
Rice Sanborn map, 1921, sheet 3 of 5
Sheet 3 of 5
Rice Sanborn map, 1921, sheet 4 of 5
Sheet 4 of 5
Rice Sanborn map, 1921, sheet 5 of 5
Sheet 5 of 5

1935

Population not recorded

Not a new survey. The 1921 sheets were brought up to date with correction slips pasted on in December 1935, the same way Blooming Grove's 1934 edition was made, so the seal still reads 1921 and gives no new population. On the slips: the H. C. Noel gin is gone, the Rutherford Gin Co. has gone up beside the cotton yard, and a Colored lodge hall stands next to the M.E. church.

Rice Sanborn map, 1935, sheet 1 of 5
Sheet 1 of 5
Rice Sanborn map, 1935, sheet 2 of 5
Sheet 2 of 5
Rice Sanborn map, 1935, sheet 3 of 5
Sheet 3 of 5
Rice Sanborn map, 1935, sheet 4 of 5
Sheet 4 of 5
Rice Sanborn map, 1935, sheet 5 of 5
Sheet 5 of 5

Maps from the Library of Congress, Sanborn Fire Insurance Map Collection. Public domain. Land grant map: Courtesy of the Texas General Land Office, Austin. Map 73249, Navarro County, July 1924. Used under licence.