Pine Grove, Cherokee County, Texas
Unincorporated community
Pine Grove is located in Texas
Pine Grove
Pine Grove
Pine Grove is located in the United States
Pine Grove
Pine Grove
Coordinates: 31°52′54″N 95°19′49″W / 31.88167°N 95.33028°W / 31.88167; -95.33028
CountryUnited States
StateTexas
CountyCherokee
Elevation
387 ft (118 m)
Time zoneUTC-6 (Central (CST))
 • Summer (DST)UTC-5 (CDT)
Area codes430 & 903
GNIS feature ID1380358[1]

Pine Grove is an unincorporated community in Cherokee County, located in the U.S. state of Texas.[1] According to the Handbook of Texas, the community had a population of 30 in 2000. It is located within the Tyler-Jacksonville combined statistical area.

History

The area in what is known as Pine Grove today was first settled around the time of the American Civil War and grew up around a local church with the same name. It had a church and several scattered houses in the mid-1930s. Many people left the community after World War II, but it still had a church and several scattered houses, as well as a cemetery and a store in the early 1990s. Its population was 30 in 2000.[2]

Geography

Pine Grove is located at the intersection of Farm to Market Roads 747 and 2138, 12 mi (19 km) northwest of Rusk in western Cherokee County.[2]

Education

Pine Grove had its own school in 1896 and had 88 students. It was still standing in the mid-1930s and early-1990s.[2] Today, the community is served by the Jacksonville Independent School District.

Notes

  1. 1 2 U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Pine Grove, Cherokee County, Texas
  2. 1 2 3 Long, Christopher (May 1, 1995). "Pine Grove, TX (Cherokee County)". tshaonline.org.


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