Rexville, Texas

Rexville, Texas
Rexville, Texas
	unincorporated area
	Rexville, Texas Location within the state of Texas Rexville, Texas Rexville, Texas (the US)
	Coordinates: 29°43′35″N96°12′48″W / 29.72639°N 96.21333°W Coordinates: 29°43′35″N96°12′48″W / 29.72639°N 96.21333°W
Country	United States
State	Texas
County	Austin
Elevation	180 ft (50 m)
Time zone	Central (CST) (UTC-6)
• Summer (DST)	CDT (UTC-5)
ZIP code	77474
Area code(s)	979

Last updated May 05, 2019

Rexville or Reckville was an unincorporated area in Austin County, in the U.S. state of Texas. The former location of the community, now a ghost town, is in a rural area between Sealy in Austin County and Eagle Lake in Colorado County. The name Rexville is still used to identify a United States Geological Survey (USGS) quadrangle map.

In law, an unincorporated area is a region of land that is not governed by a local municipal corporation; similarly an unincorporated community is a settlement that is not governed by its own local municipal corporation, but rather is administered as part of larger administrative divisions, such as a township, parish, borough, county, city, canton, state, province or country. Occasionally, municipalities dissolve or disincorporate, which may happen if they become fiscally insolvent, and services become the responsibility of a higher administration. Widespread unincorporated communities and areas are a distinguishing feature of the United States and Canada. In most other countries of the world, there are either no unincorporated areas at all, or these are very rare; typically remote, outlying, sparsely populated or uninhabited areas.

Austin County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2010 census, the population was 28,417. Its seat is Bellville. The county is named for Stephen F. Austin, who facilitated the Anglo-American colonization of Texas and is known as the "Father of Texas".

In the United States, a state is a constituent political entity, of which there are currently 50. Bound together in a political union, each state holds governmental jurisdiction over a separate and defined geographic territory and shares its sovereignty with the federal government. Due to this shared sovereignty, Americans are citizens both of the federal republic and of the state in which they reside. State citizenship and residency are flexible, and no government approval is required to move between states, except for persons restricted by certain types of court orders. Four states use the term commonwealth rather than state in their full official names.

Geography

The one-time community of Rexville was situated at 29°43′35″N96°12′48″W / 29.72639°N 96.21333°W / 29.72639; -96.21333 ^[1] on a former railroad right-of-way about 0.5 miles (0.8 km) north-northwest of the intersection of Rexville and Mieth Roads. This junction is located on Rexville Road 4.9 miles (7.9 km) southwest of Sealy and 1.5 miles (2.4 km) northwest of Farm to Market Road 3013 (FM 3013) on Mieth Road. The disused railroad right-of-way converges with Rexville Road about 0.5 miles (0.8 km) to the southwest of Rexville and Mieth. There is a large Wal-Mart distribution center to the northeast at FM 3013 and Farm to Market Road 3538. Rexville Road starts near U.S. Route 90 in Sealy and crosses Interstate 10 at a bridge near Sealy High School. There is no interchange. A short distance southwest of the overpass, the pavement ends and Rexville Road becomes gravel-topped.^[2] On the 1960 Rexville USGS 7.5' Quadrangle, Rexville is marked on a railroad siding beside a gravel pit on the west side of East Bernard Creek.^[3]

U.S. Route 90 is a major east-west highway in the U.S. state of Texas with large portions of it running concurrently with I-10. US 90 begins at I-10 in Van Horn, travels through San Antonio and Houston, and continues on into the state of Louisiana.

Interstate 10 (I-10) is the major east–west Interstate Highway in the Southern United States. In the U.S. state of Texas, it runs east from Anthony, at the border with New Mexico, through El Paso, San Antonio and Houston to the border with Louisiana in Orange, Texas. At just under 880 miles (1,420 km), the Texas segment of I-10, maintained by the Texas Department of Transportation, is the longest continuous untolled freeway in North America that is operated by a single authority,. It is also the longest stretch of highway with a single designation within a single state. Mile marker 880 and its corresponding exit number in Orange, Texas, are the highest numbered mile marker and exit on any freeway in North America. After widening was completed in 2008, a portion of the highway west of Houston is now also believed to be the widest in the world, at 26 lanes. There is a wider section in China on the G4 Beijing–Hong Kong–Macau Expressway; however, that section is a toll plaza approach.

Sealy High School (SHS) is a public high school located in the city of Sealy, Texas, in Austin County, United States and classified as a 4A school by the UIL. It is a part of the Sealy Independent School District. A new, multimillion-dollar campus was constructed in 2005. In 2005 SHS struggled with unacceptable scores on the Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills (TAKS) test. However, it regained its acceptable state rankings in 2006 testing. In 2013, the school was rated "Met Standard" by the Texas Education Agency.

History

The area was first settled by Anglo-Americans in the 1830s. Originally called Reckville, the settlement was founded by German immigrants in the 1870s about 6 miles (9.7 km) southwest of Sealy. In the 1880s, a spur line of the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway was built between Sealy and Eagle Lake. Though the town became a flag stop on the railroad, few people moved there. The Rexville community never had a post office but got its mail from Sealy. By the 1950s there was nothing in the area but a triangulation station on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad and a few farms.^[4] One source lists Rexville as a ghost town.^[5]

The Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway was a subsidiary of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway in eastern Texas and to Purcell, Oklahoma.

Gallery

View is northwest at junction of Mieth and Rexville Rds. The railroad once followed the line of trees on the horizon.
A few homes remain near the former site of Rexville. The view is northeast on Rexville Rd near Mieth Rd.

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References

↑ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Rexville, Texas
↑ Google (May 20, 2013). "Rexville, Texas" (Map). Google Maps . Google. Retrieved May 20, 2013.
↑ USGS Rexville 7.5' Quad (1960)
↑ Jackson, Charles Christopher. "Handbook of Texas Online: REXVILLE, TX". Texas State Historical Association. Retrieved May 20, 2013.
↑ "Texas Escapes: Rexville, Texas". TexasEscapes.com - Blueprints for Travel, LLC. 2010. Retrieved May 21, 2013.

v t e Municipalities and communities of Austin County, Texas, United States
County seat: Bellville
Cities	Bellville Brazos Country Industry Sealy Wallis	Austin County map
Town	San Felipe
Unincorporated communities	Bleiblerville Burleigh Cat Spring Frydek Kenney Nelsonville New Ulm Peters Phillipsburg‡ Shelby Welcome
Ghost towns	Rexville Sempronius
Footnotes	‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties