Simpsonville, Texas

Simpsonville
Unincorporated community
Interactive map of Simpsonville
Simpsonville is located in Texas
Simpsonville
Simpsonville
Location within Texas
Simpsonville is located in the United States
Simpsonville
Simpsonville
Simpsonville (the United States)
Coordinates: 32°51′39″N 95°04′10″W / 32.86083°N 95.06944°W / 32.86083; -95.06944
CountryUnited States
StateTexas
CountyUpshur County

Simpsonville is an unincorporated community in northwestern Upshur County, Texas, United States.[1]

History

Originally named Chelsea when founded in the 1850s, the town name was changed to Simpsonville on April 22, 1858, in honor of an early settler.[2] Highway signage and road maps indicate this community is named Thomas, due to a subsequent renaming of the town occasioned in 1913 when the town's application for a new post office—the most recent post office had been closed in 1906 by postal officials—had been rejected on the grounds that a Matagorda County town called Simpsonville had just been granted a post office.[2]

Notes

  1. ↑ "Simpsonville". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved May 27, 2026.
  2. 1 2 Simpsonville, Texas from the Handbook of Texas Online. Retrieved 28 June 2010.


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