Oakland, Cherokee County, Texas

Coordinates: 31°48′52″N 95°13′10″W / 31.81444°N 95.21944°W / 31.81444; -95.21944
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Oakland, Texas
430 & 903
GNIS feature ID1378781[1]

Oakland is an

Tyler-Jacksonville combined statistical area
.

History

The area in what is known as Oakland today may have been settled sometime after the Civil War. There was a church, a store, and a few scattered houses in Oakland in the 1930s. The store closed after World War II. Only a church, a cemetery, and several scattered houses remained in 1990. Its population was 50 in 2000.[2]

Geography

Oakland is located on

Farm to Market Road 347, 4 mi (6.4 km) west of Rusk in central Cherokee County.[2]

Education

Oakland had its own school in 1896 and had 46 students enrolled. It was still operational in the 1930s. It joined the Rusk Independent School District after World War II.[2]

Notes

  1. ^ a b "Oakland, Texas". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
  2. ^ a b c Long, Christopher (May 1, 1995). "Oakland, TX (Cherokee County)". tshaonline.org.