Eureka

Navarro County, Texas

A map of where this is in the county. — 2.9 mi north-west of Mildred · Navarro County

Eureka sits at the junction of US Highway 287 and Farm Roads 637 and 3243, eleven miles southeast of Corsicana. It grew around Dunn's School before the Civil War, and its post office took its name at a Grange meeting in 1870. Population was about twenty-five in 1885 and a hundred by 1914, then grew again in recent decades, two hundred forty-three in the early 1990s and three hundred forty by 2000.

Also within two miles. Burying grounds: Eureka Cemetery, Handcock Cemetery · Markers: Eureka Methodist Church, Home of Whitney Montgomery, Poet · Fire department: Eureka Volunteer Fire Department.

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