Drane

Navarro County, Texas

A map of where this is in the county. — 4.2 mi east of Oak Valley · Navarro County

Drane sits on Farm Road 744, six miles west of Corsicana in west central Navarro County. Its post office opened in 1883; the community peaked around 1896 with about seventy-five people, a flour mill, a cotton gin and Presbyterian, Methodist and Baptist churches. The post office closed in 1906. Population has held at sixteen since 1990.

Also within two miles. Markers: Campbell-Elrod Cemetery, David Wilson Campbell.

Among the places · On the map

From Texas State Historical Association, Handbook of Texas, entry for Drane, Navarro County (Christopher Long)..