Stansel

Navarro County, Texas

Four miles southwest of Dawson, Stansel was named for an early settler and established before 1900. Its post office ran from 1901 to 1903; the mid-1930s community held a school, a church, a store and a number of houses. The school closed after the war, and by 1947 only a store and a church were left, for about thirty people. It was off the highway maps by the mid-1960s.

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Source: Texas State Historical Association, Handbook of Texas, entry for Stansel, Navarro County (Christopher Long, 1952; revised 1995)..