Texas imagery

Texas Landmarks & Vanished Communities

Tyler County, Texas

Tyler County Places

Landmarks & Vanished Communities

This index preserves the TXGenWeb collection of named places, geographic features, historic sites, and vanished communities associated with Tyler County, Texas.

About the coordinates: The USGS no longer maintains the GNIS database links formerly used by this collection. Copy and paste a latitude/longitude pair into a modern map service to view the location. Older coordinates may reflect NAD27 rather than NAD83, so some points can appear slightly displaced.
Tyler County Landmarks & Vanished Communities
Feature Name Type Latitude, Longitude Description Source
Allison Cemetery cemetery 30.628889, -094.369444 — USGS
Antioch Church church 30.781111, -094.274167 — USGS
BA Steinhagen Lake lake 30.875278, -094.220556 — USGS
Baker and Nolan Cemetery cemetery 30.587778, -094.250833 — USGS
Barclay Cemetery cemetery 31.026667, -094.555833 — USGS
Barclay Lake reservoir 30.736667, -094.444444 — USGS
Barlow Chapel church 30.836944, -094.386944 — USGS
Barlow Lake lake 30.763611, -094.141389 — USGS
Beale Branch stream 31.029722, -094.336944 — USGS
Bean Creek stream 30.877222, -094.359444 — USGS
Beech Creek Church church 30.692778, -094.224722 — USGS
Belts Creek stream 30.923333, -094.466667 — USGS
Bethany Church church 30.891389, -094.481111 — USGS
Big Bluff cliff 31.002222, -094.447500 — USGS
Big Cypress Creek stream 30.625278, -094.354722 — USGS
Big Dry Creek stream 30.955278, -094.451111 — USGS
Big Hill summit 30.995278, -094.578611 — USGS
Billiams Creek stream 31.006944, -094.433611 — USGS
Birch Cemetery cemetery 30.948611, -094.605278 — USGS
Birdwell Lake lake 30.778889, -094.336667 — USGS
Black Creek stream 30.536944, -094.385000 — USGS
Blackland Hill summit 30.971667, -094.469444 — USGS
Blair Lake reservoir 30.743333, -094.392778 — USGS
Boar Branch stream 30.870278, -094.328056 — USGS
Boggy Branch stream 30.893611, -094.309167 — USGS
Boone's [Boon's] Ferry vanished community 0.000000, -000.000000 Boone's Ferry [Boon's Ferry], Texas, a vanished community, once stood beside the abandoned Mexican military encampment, Fort Teran, and on the Neches River, three miles west of Rockland, Texas, in north central Tyler County. Fort Teran, consisting of ten wooden cabins, was established in 1831 to help curtail smuggling and illegal immigration into the part of Mexico that was known as Texas. After the fort was abandoned in 1834, about a dozen people lived in the community. At that time Samuel T. Belt opened a trading post and ferry there, calling the site Belt's Ferry. By 1871 the community was known as Boone's Ferry to the local people, but when a post office was opened that year the place was named "Boon's Ferry." Probably the name came from Thaddeus Boone, one of the postmasters and operator of the ferry. The other postmaster who served at some time during the existence of the post office - 1871 through 1885 - was John Wilson. Located at the head of navigation on the river, the community was a landing for steamboats over several decades, ending in 1871. Stagecoaches as well as individual travelers used the ferry. The community, under all of its names, was a trading and shipping point in the days before the railroad reached the area. A rich history of the Runaway Scrape and a folklore of Mexican gold surrounded the community. Other names for the site have been Fort Turan and Duncan Ferry. Sources: Charles Deaton, Texas Postal History Handbook (Houston: by author, 1980), 77; Sketches of Tyler County History (Bevil Oaks TX: Whitmeyer Printing, 1986), 16, 32-38, 292; Lou Ella Moseley, Pioneer Days of Tyler County (Bevil Oaks TX: Tyler Co. Heritage Soc., Inc., reprint 1985), 129-133; 153-155; 207; Howard N. Martin, "Fort Teran," in The New Handbook of Texas, Vol. 2 (Austin:TSHA, 1996), 1120- 1121. Julia Cauble Smith cauble@apex2000.net
Boyd Creek stream 30.963056, -094.447500 — USGS
Brush Creek stream 30.768889, -094.340556 — USGS
Brushy Branch stream 30.883889, -094.386111 — USGS
Brushy Lake lake 30.777778, -094.142778 — USGS
Buzzard Creek stream 30.835556, -094.331667 — USGS
Camp Branch stream 30.835278, -094.210556 — USGS
Camp Niwana locale 30.765833, -094.501944 — USGS
Camp Urland locale 30.745000, -094.440278 — USGS
Caney Creek stream 31.053889, -094.548889 — USGS
Carrolls' Switch pop place 30.818056, -094.428611 See Doucette, TX. Julia Cauble Smith cauble@apex2000.net
Carter Branch stream 31.019444, -094.333611 — USGS
Carter Cemetery cemetery 31.004722, -094.334167 — USGS
Charity Branch stream 30.523056, -094.249444 — USGS
Chester pop place 30.926111, -094.596389 — USGS
Cima pop place 30.940000, -094.401667 — USGS
Clarks Branch stream 30.886389, -094.395000 — USGS
Clear Fork Creek stream 30.871389, -094.307500 — USGS
Colmesneil pop place 30.907778, -094.421944 — USGS
Conner Branch stream 30.783056, -094.587222 — USGS
Coon Branch stream 30.944444, -094.483056 — USGS
Coontop Creek stream 30.796667, -094.583611 — USGS
Cow Pasture Airport airport 30.625000, -094.393056 — USGS
Cowpen Branch stream 30.991667, -094.252500 — USGS
Cowpen Creek stream 30.916944, -094.479167 — USGS
Crow Creek stream 30.873056, -094.462778 — USGS
Davis Cemetery cemetery 30.977222, -094.275556 — USGS
Dies Community pop place 30.861111, -094.489722 — USGS
Double Bridge Branch stream 30.792500, -094.282500 — USGS
Doucette pop place 30.818056, -094.428611 Located on U.S. Highway 69 and the Southern Pacific Railroad three miles north of Woodville, Texas, in central Tyler County. First interest in the area around Doucette came in 1834 when Elijah Hanks was given a land grant there. During the period of Reconstruction, the people of Tyler County suffered economically from high taxes and from the loss of the labor force that had grown profitable cotton prior to the Civil War. In seeking to build a new economy, small entrepreneurs turned their attention to the abundant timber supply of the county. However, no form of transportation existed in the backwoods to move lumber to market. To solve the problem, a railroad was constructed in 1882 and by 1890 nineteen sawmills operated in Tyler County. In 1891 Alva Carrolls constructed a sawmill and the community that sprang up there was called Carrolls' Switch. Carrolls sold his sawmill the next year to William McCready, a man identified only as Mr. Bodev, and Pete Doucette, who renamed the village for himself. In 1893 a post office was created and McCready became the postmaster. A short time later McCready and his partners sold their operation to Samuel Fain Carter and J. P. Carter, who operated as the Emporia Lumber Company until 1906. At that time Emporia sold its interest at Doucette to Thompson Lumber Company and Doucette became a sawmill company town. Although the sawmill at Doucette burned to the ground in 1908, it was rebuilt. Thompson sold its holdings at Doucette to Fidelity Lumber Company, the predecessor of Long-Bell Lumber Company, in 1911. During the nearly half-century ownership of Long-Bell, Doucette grew into a typical sawmill company town. In the 1920s population climbed to 1,800 only to decline to 500 in the Great Depression of the 1930s, when all lumber companies and their towns suffered. In prosperous times and like most company towns, Doucette had a railroad station, a school, a commissary with a drugstore, a community center for union church services and lodge meetings, a baseball field, and a clinic with a doctor. In 1944, with the day of virgin timber passed, the Doucette sawmill closed. In 1956 International Paper Company bought out Long-Bell and in the early 1960s International still had an office and yard at Doucette. From the 1940s to the late 1960s population settled around 250, and in the 1970s through the 1990s about 130 people and four to seven businesses made up the village that prospered as a company town and survived after the virgin timber was "cut out." Sources: James E. Wheat and Josiah Wheat, "Sawmill Days," in Sketches of Tyler County History (Bevil Oaks, TX: Tyler Co. Sesquicentennial Committee, 1986), 145-153; Megan Biesele, "Doucette, Texas," in The New Handbook of Texas, Vol. 2 (Austin: TSHA, 1996), 686; Lou Ella Moseley, Pioneer Days of Tyler County (Bevil Oaks, TX: Tyler Co. Heritage Soc., Inc., reprint 1985), 192-194; Henry Gannett, A Gazetteer of Texas, USGS Bulletin 224 (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1904), 58; Charles Deaton, Texas Postal History Handbook (Houston: by author, 1980), 91; Thad Sitton and James H. Conrad, Nameless Towns: Texas Sawmill Communities 1880-1942 (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1998), 3, 19, 35p, 161-162; 1998-1999 Texas Almanac, 302. Julia Cauble Smith cauble@apex2000.net
Doucette Branch stream 30.793333, -094.425278 — USGS
Drakes Branch stream 30.561944, -094.248333 — USGS
Drunkards Branch stream 30.754722, -094.333889 — USGS
Dry Creek stream 30.940000, -094.580833 — USGS
Dry Creek stream 30.854167, -094.289444 — USGS
Dunrovin Hatchery locale 30.790278, -094.379167 — USGS
East Branch Turkey Creek stream 30.808056, -094.439167 — USGS
East Chapel church 30.695000, -094.280833 — USGS
East Hillister Oil Field oilfield 30.653889, -094.300000 — USGS
Ebenezer Church church 30.867222, -094.282500 — USGS
Egypt Cemetery cemetery 30.878611, -094.406111 — USGS
Egypt Church church 30.869722, -094.397222 — USGS
Electro Lake reservoir 30.725833, -094.448333 — USGS
Enon Church church 30.964722, -094.555000 — USGS
Fairview Church church 30.814444, -094.205556 — USGS
Fall Branch stream 30.755556, -094.528056 — USGS
Farrell Cemetery cemetery 30.918056, -094.239722 — USGS
Fellowship Cemetery cemetery 30.600556, -094.464722 — USGS
Fellowship Church church 30.649167, -094.456111 — USGS
Flat Branch stream 30.800556, -094.529167 — USGS
Fourmile Branch stream 31.017500, -094.529167 — USGS
Fox Landing pop place 30.990833, -094.237778 — USGS
Franks Branch stream 30.554722, -094.111667 — USGS
Franks Branch Church church 30.559167, -094.178611 — USGS
Fred pop place 30.576389, -094.176111 — USGS
Futch Cemetery cemetery 31.017778, -094.536111 — USGS
Gardner Cemetery cemetery 30.583333, -094.355278 — USGS
Goalsbee Cemetery cemetery 30.748333, -094.285000 — USGS
Goodwater Branch stream 30.928889, -094.445556 — USGS
Grapevine Branch stream 30.964444, -094.472500 — USGS
Graveyard Branch stream 30.986111, -094.360833 — USGS
Greenwood Creek stream 31.025000, -094.401389 — USGS
Gregory Cemetery cemetery 30.965833, -094.329167 — USGS
Grimes Cemetery cemetery 30.973889, -094.270278 — USGS
Hampton Church church 30.928889, -094.624722 — USGS
Hardshell Cemetery cemetery 30.878056, -094.512222 — USGS
Hardy Branch stream 30.950278, -094.576944 — USGS
Harmony Church church 30.724722, -094.493333 — USGS
Hebron Church church 30.554722, -094.511944 — USGS
Hester Cemetery cemetery 30.558333, -094.331389 — USGS
Hickory Grove Cemetery cemetery 30.937778, -094.499722 — USGS
Hicksbaugh pop place 30.561667, -094.350000 — USGS
Hicksbaugh Church church 30.572778, -094.354444 — USGS
Hicksbaugh Oil Field oilfield 30.555556, -094.359444 — USGS
Hillister pop place 30.667500, -094.381111 — USGS
Historical Monument Site of Fort Teran park 31.028611, -094.467778 — USGS
Holly Fork Church church 30.916667, -094.255556 — USGS
Holmes Branch stream 30.749167, -094.327222 — USGS
Hooker Branch stream 30.870556, -094.326389 — USGS
Hopewell Cemetery cemetery 30.818333, -094.295556 — USGS
Hopewell Church church 30.824444, -094.322222 — USGS
Hopson Mill Creek stream 30.934444, -094.219167 — USGS
Horsepen Creek stream 30.605000, -094.460278 — USGS
Howell Creek stream 31.047222, -094.598056 — USGS
Hubert Cemetery cemetery 30.769722, -094.601389 — USGS
Hubert Spring Branch stream 30.764444, -094.584722 — USGS
Huddley Lakes lake 30.931667, -094.199444 — USGS
Hunters Creek stream 30.686389, -094.348611 — USGS
Hyatt pop place 30.575278, -094.402222 — USGS
Hyatt Lookout locale 30.573889, -094.406111 — USGS
Jacks Creek stream 30.558611, -094.500556 — USGS
Joes Lake Oil Field oilfield 30.649444, -094.109444 — USGS
John H Kirby State Forest park 30.576389, -094.412222 — USGS
Johns Branch stream 30.946389, -094.231111 — USGS
Justis Cemetery cemetery 30.660000, -094.445278 — USGS
KVLL-AM (Woodville) tower 30.747778, -094.432222 — USGS
Lake Tejas reservoir 30.901667, -094.405000 — USGS
Lawrence Branch stream 30.984444, -094.443889 — USGS
Lindsey Branch stream 30.971944, -094.239444 — USGS
Little Beech Creek stream 30.744167, -094.196389 — USGS
Little Church church 30.660833, -094.347222 — USGS
Little Creek stream 30.996111, -094.338056 — USGS
Little Cypress Creek stream 30.695556, -094.478611 — USGS
Little Dry Creek stream 30.955000, -094.460278 — USGS
Little Flock Church church 30.658889, -094.344722 — USGS
Little Turkey Creek stream 30.765000, -094.414167 — USGS
Little Wolf Creek stream 30.859444, -094.258889 — USGS
Lively Branch stream 30.891944, -094.404444 — USGS
Long Branch stream 30.877222, -094.311111 — USGS
Long Branch stream 30.994167, -094.443333 — USGS
Magnolia Hills pop place 30.778056, -094.476667 — USGS
Magnus Branch stream 30.660833, -094.391667 — USGS
Mahaffey Cemetery cemetery 30.901111, -094.577778 — USGS
Mann Cemetery cemetery 30.937778, -094.487500 — USGS
Mann Chapel church 30.898333, -094.474722 — USGS
Masterson Lake reservoir 30.683889, -094.387500 — USGS
McDuffy Branch stream 31.031389, -094.606944 — USGS
McGraw Creek stream 31.003056, -094.451111 — USGS
McMickin Lake lake 30.783333, -094.157778 — USGS
Midway Church church 30.578056, -094.256389 — USGS
Miles Hill summit 31.012500, -094.462222 — USGS
Mill Branch stream 30.932778, -094.452222 — USGS
Mill Creek stream 30.695556, -094.190556 — USGS
Mill Creek Church church 30.539722, -094.398611 — USGS
Moffet Cemetery cemetery 30.823056, -094.210556 — USGS
Moss Hill Church church 30.804167, -094.362222 — USGS
Mount Carmel Church church 30.974722, -094.263889 — USGS
Mount Hope Cemetery cemetery 30.947778, -094.586944 — USGS
Mount Hope Church church 30.958056, -094.579444 — USGS
Mount Nebo Church church 30.559167, -094.226111 — USGS
Mount Pisgah Cemetery cemetery 30.737778, -094.413056 — USGS
Mount Zion Church church 30.894444, -094.569722 — USGS
Myrtle Creek stream 30.888889, -094.584722 — USGS
New Hope Church church 30.612500, -094.298333 — USGS
New Shady Grove Church church 30.813056, -094.332778 — USGS
New Shiloh Church church 30.784722, -094.507500 — USGS
Nowlin Cemetery cemetery 30.890833, -094.630000 — USGS
Oak Grove Church church 30.605000, -094.174722 — USGS
Oak Grove Church church 30.958056, -094.352222 — USGS
Old Mobile locale 30.922222, -094.495556 — USGS
Old Mount Zion Cemetery cemetery 30.937500, -094.594167 — USGS
One Mile Branch stream 30.896389, -094.406389 — USGS
Otter Creek stream 30.956667, -094.576389 — USGS
Ox Lot Lake lake 30.924167, -094.208889 — USGS
Pamplin Creek stream 30.963333, -094.243333 — USGS
Pavey Oil Field oilfield 30.535000, -094.488056 — USGS
Peach Tree Village pop place 30.944722, -094.613056 — USGS
Peach Tree Village Cemetery cemetery 30.950556, -094.627222 — USGS
Pedigo Cemetery cemetery 30.819167, -094.222222 — USGS
Pedigo Hill summit 30.820278, -094.208333 — USGS
Phillips Lake reservoir 30.711944, -094.396389 — USGS
Pigpen Branch stream 30.806111, -094.581111 — USGS
Pineville Church church 30.551389, -094.325556 — USGS
Pole Bridge Creek stream 30.770556, -094.245278 — USGS
Potato Patch Lake lake 30.536667, -094.105833 — USGS
Push Creek stream 30.820833, -094.233611 — USGS
Ratcliff Branch stream 30.801111, -094.261111 — USGS
Rawls Cemetery cemetery 30.918889, -094.231389 — USGS
Rawls Creek stream 31.023333, -094.284167 — USGS
Red Branch stream 30.806111, -094.291944 — USGS
Red Oak School school 30.614444, -094.400278 — USGS
Reid Lake reservoir 30.721667, -094.412500 — USGS
Reids Branch stream 30.774167, -094.345556 — USGS
Richardson Cemetery cemetery 30.528889, -094.331944 — USGS
Rileys Lake reservoir 30.903056, -094.407500 — USGS
Rockland pop place 31.015000, -094.381389 — USGS
Rocky Branch stream 30.963611, -094.622222 — USGS
Rocky Creek stream 30.983333, -094.243333 — USGS
Rocky Hole Branch stream 31.000000, -094.435833 — USGS
Rocky Springs spring 31.022778, -094.303611 — USGS
Rocky Springs Church church 31.011944, -094.310000 — USGS
Ross Branch stream 30.998889, -094.330556 — USGS
Rush Creek stream 30.843333, -094.210278 — USGS
Russell Creek stream 31.041389, -094.496944 — USGS
Saline Creek stream 31.031667, -094.485833 — USGS
Sand Hill summit 30.966111, -094.440278 — USGS
Sandy Branch stream 31.057500, -094.559722 — USGS
Sandy Creek stream 30.981389, -094.447778 — USGS
Sawmill Branch stream 30.800000, -094.582778 — USGS
Sawyers Lakes reservoir 30.693611, -094.422500 — USGS
Seamans Chapel church 30.964167, -094.535278 — USGS
Sevenmile Branch stream 30.745278, -094.321111 — USGS
Shady Grove Church church 30.780000, -094.568889 — USGS
Sheephead Bend bend 31.012778, -094.434722 — USGS
Shiloh Cemetery cemetery 30.812500, -094.503611 — USGS
Shiloh Church church 30.810278, -094.513611 — USGS
Silver Run Branch stream 30.896111, -094.490833 — USGS
Smith Ferry locale 30.979444, -094.242222 — USGS
Smith Ferry Lookout Tower tower 30.968056, -094.327500 — USGS
Snowden Spring Branch stream 30.877500, -094.359444 — USGS
Spring Hill Church church 30.739167, -094.353889 — USGS
Spurger pop place 30.692500, -094.177500 — USGS
Spurger Lookout locale 30.688333, -094.222222 — USGS
Spurlock Branch stream 30.650000, -094.375833 — USGS
Spurlock Lake reservoir 30.669444, -094.373333 — USGS
Steeles Grove Cemetery cemetery 30.880833, -094.446944 — USGS
Steep Hollow Branch stream 30.801667, -094.266667 — USGS
Sterling Cemetery cemetery 30.919444, -094.582500 — USGS
Still Branch stream 30.804167, -094.276667 — USGS
Sugar Creek stream 31.025556, -094.332500 — USGS
Sulphur Branch stream 30.835833, -094.226944 — USGS
Sulphur Branch stream 31.029444, -094.378889 — USGS
Sunnydell Church church 30.943611, -094.464444 — USGS
Supps Cemetery cemetery 30.822778, -094.224444 — USGS
Sutton Lake reservoir 30.703333, -094.447500 — USGS
Swearingen Branch stream 30.766944, -094.584444 — USGS
Swearingen Oil Field oilfield 30.592500, -094.284722 — USGS
Tantrough Branch stream 30.973056, -094.450556 — USGS
Tanyard Branch stream 30.904444, -094.489444 — USGS
Tarver Cemetery cemetery 30.964167, -094.580833 — USGS
Tatum Branch stream 30.955833, -094.257222 — USGS
Theuvenins Creek stream 30.510278, -094.257222 — USGS
Theuvenins Oil Field oilfield 30.567500, -094.285833 — USGS
Thouching Creek stream 30.556667, -094.292778 — USGS
Timber Lakes reservoir 30.680556, -094.422222 — USGS
Tompkins Mill Creek stream 30.863056, -094.262500 — USGS
Town Bluff locale 30.790000, -094.180556 — USGS
Treasure Branch stream 30.787778, -094.585556 — USGS
Tuckers Branch stream 30.768056, -094.197222 — USGS
Turner Branch stream 30.585833, -094.091111 — USGS
Twin Lakes reservoir 30.715000, -094.451389 — USGS
Tyler County civil 30.783333, -094.383333 — USGS
Tyler County Airport airport 30.775000, -094.458333 — USGS
Tyler County Hospital Heliport airport 30.776111, -094.428056 — USGS
United Church church 30.566389, -094.164167 — USGS
Urland Lake reservoir 30.740556, -094.442222 — USGS
Vincent Creek stream 30.894444, -094.573611 — USGS
Warren pop place 30.614444, -094.408333 — USGS
Warren Cemetery cemetery 30.604722, -094.406111 — USGS
Wash Hole Branch stream 30.774722, -094.260833 — USGS
Waters Spring Branch stream 30.758333, -094.578611 — USGS
Weeks Branch stream 31.003333, -094.431111 — USGS
Weeks Cemetery cemetery 31.006111, -094.425278 — USGS
White Oak Branch stream 30.816389, -094.265556 — USGS
Williams Cemetery cemetery 30.649167, -094.399167 — USGS
Wilson Branch stream 30.888333, -094.396111 — USGS
Wolf Branch stream 30.961389, -094.576111 — USGS
Wolf Creek stream 30.861667, -094.225278 — USGS
Wolf Pen Creek stream 30.808333, -094.534722 — USGS
Woodville pop place 30.775000, -094.415278 — USGS
Woodville Lookout locale 30.737778, -094.432222 — USGS
Yellow Bluff cliff 30.529722, -094.069167 — USGS

Help Improve This Collection

If you can supply missing GPS coordinates, identify a vanished community, or provide additional historical context, please contact TXGenWeb so the information can be preserved for future researchers.

Return to County Index Research Resources