Westville, Texas

31°0′57″N 95°18′4″W / 31.01583°N 95.30111°W / 31.01583; -95.30111CountryUnited StatesStateTexasCountyTrinityElevation292 ft (89 m)Time zoneUTC-6 (Central (CST)) • Summer (DST)UTC-5 (CDT)Area code(s)430 & 903GNIS feature ID1382942^[1]

Westville is an unincorporated community located in Trinity County, Texas, United States.^[1] According to the Handbook of Texas, the community had a population of 46 in 2000. It is located within the Huntsville, Texas micropolitan area.

History

In 1898, James Marion West Sr. and Peter Josserand Jr. founded a sawmill, around which Westville was built. Josserand was acquired by West in 1901, and the business was renamed the West Lumber Company. Ten years before, the location housed a mill and was known as Walton. In 1900, a post office was created, and by 1914, there were 100 residents living there. After World War I, when the majority of the local timber had been harvested, the village started to collapse. Many of the population relocated to other sawmill communities in the vicinity or to lumbering regions of the West Coast after the sawmill was stopped and the plant was dismantled in 1921. Only two companies survived by the middle of the 1930s after the post office closed in 1929. Westville was a dispersed town in the early 1990s. Forty-six people were living there in 2000.^[2]

Geography

Westville is located on Texas State Highway 94, 4 mi (6.4 km) west of Groveton in central Trinity County.^[2]

Education

Westville is served by the Groveton Independent School District.

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