Elm Flat

Navarro County, Texas

A map of where this is in the county. — 2.2 mi north-west of Powell · Navarro County

Elm Flat sits on Farm Road 633, nine miles southeast of Corsicana in southeastern Navarro County. It formed in the late 1870s; by 1906 it had two schools, forty white and fifty-three Black students, and it peaked in the early 1930s. It is now a dispersed rural community.

The Texas Freedom Colonies Project counts Elm Flat among the eleven freedom colonies of Navarro County, the communities freedpeople built after emancipation. Field Note 008, The forks of the creek →

Also within two miles. Burying grounds: Elm Flat Cemetery, Sloan Cemetery, Woods Cemetery.

Among the places · On the map

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