Richland

Navarro County, Texas

A map of where this is in the county. — 5.0 mi north of Angus · Navarro County

Richland sits at the junction of Interstate 45 and State Highway 14, on Pisgah Ridge twelve miles south of Corsicana in south central Navarro County. Asa Chambers opened a store there in the late 1840s, and its post office, Richland Crossing, named for Richland Creek, opened in 1848; the Houston and Texas Central Railway reached it in 1871. Population peaked near seven hundred fifty in 1929 and declined through the Depression, settling at two hundred fifty-five as of the most recent count.

Richland in red on the General Land Office map of Navarro County, 1924, among the original land grants — Richland on the Land Office's county map of July 1924, in red; the names around it are the original land grants. Courtesy of the Texas General Land Office, Austin. Map 73249, Navarro County, July 1924. Used under licence. The whole county map →

Also within two miles. Burying grounds: Richland Cemetery, Union Hill Cemetery, Hannon Cemetery · Markers: First Methodist Church of Richland, Love-Anderson Feud · Fire department: Richland Volunteer Fire Department.

Among the places · On the map

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