Blackland TX

The towns and the places

Six towns keep pages here. Around them are the places that did not: some are still on the road, some are a church and a graveyard, and some are only a name. The curved lines show where a place went when it emptied out. Four of the seven walked to the railroad; the others left for a post office, a flood and a school.

The towns and the places of Navarro County Navarro County with its railroads, working and lifted, its highways and its water. The six towns that have pages are marked, with 18 smaller places around them, and a curved line from each place that emptied into the town it emptied into. Gradyville moved north to the railroad and became Blooming Grove Raleigh post office moved to Frost in 1904 Spring Hill emptied into Dawson in 1881 Crossroads businesses moved to Frost Wadeville emptied into Kerens in 1881 Porter's Bluff some settlers went to Rice Rural Shade school consolidated to Kerens Blooming Grove Frost Dawson Kerens Rice Hubbard Corsicana Dresden Gradyville Barry Navarro Mills Raleigh Mildred Milford Emhouse Spring Hill Crossroads Wadeville Porter's Bluff Purdon Rural Shade Bazette Cheneyboro Chatfield Currie
Filled ring a town with a pageDot a placeHatched line railroadBroken line railroad grade, track liftedCurved line where the place went

Base geography is US Census TIGER/Line 2024 and place coordinates are USGS GNIS, both public domain. The lifted lines are traced from USGS historical topographic quadrangles (1:24,000, 1956 and 1965) and from Census TIGER/Line 2007 for the Corsicana–Dawson line, which TIGER carried then and does not carry now.

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