> ----- Original Message ---- > > Sharon Church wrote: > > > Would you please post the names of the counties considered to be in > > > East Texas? or a description of the boundries, like from Titus county > > > on the west to Bowie on the east, to Panola on the south. > > > Something like that. > > > Thanks, > > > Sharon Church > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Subject: RE : Counties in East Texas > Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2000 03:14:51 -0600 > From: David <dwke88@flash.net> > To: EAST-TEXAS-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com > > If you are not in West Texas--then you must be in East Texas!! As far as I > know there is no central Texas list. All of the individual counties have a > list, but it sure is easier to be on the East Texas list, than 20 different > lists where your relatives may have roamed. There is a Hill Country list that > could be considered kind of central. It is mostly composed of the German > settlements. What counties are you researching? > Karen Kerr Response: good one Karen, I am researching Morris and Titus counties, they are definitely in East Texas. I just kept seeing all these other counties that I wouldn't have thought were East Texas. Sharon > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Subject: Re: List counties in East-Texas > Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2000 15:22:55 -0600 > From: "jmautrey" <jmautrey@email.msn.com> > To: EAST-TEXAS-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com > This map is great, thanks for giving the information to us. However, it > really doesn't answer answer the question as to what counties are considered > to be part of "East Texas", the counties included in the coverage of the > East-Texas-Roots list. > http://www.rootsweb.com/~txgenweb/map/txregion.htm > The top section on the Texas Map is divided into sections: the top east > section is called Counties in the north eastern region of Texas and the following counties are included in it. > Counties in the north eastern region of Texas > 33 Anderson County > 5 Bowie County > 19 Camp County > 13 Cass County > 34 Cherokee County > 6 Collin County > 14 Dallas County > 8 Delta County > 25 Ellis County > 2 Fannin County > 10 Franklin County > 32 Freestone County > 1 Grayson County > 23 Gregg County > 22 Harrison County > 27 Henderson County > 9 Hopkins County > 38 Houston County > 7 Hunt County > 15 Kaufman County > 3 Lamar County > 37 Leon County > 31 Limestone County > 39 Madison County > 21 Marion County > 12 Morris County > 35 Nacagdoches County (shouldn't this be spelled "Nacogdoches"? > 26 Navarro County > 30 Panola County > 17 Rains County > 4 Red River County > 24 Rockwall County > 29 Rusk County > 36 Shelby County > 28 Smith County > 11 Titus County > 20 Upshur County > 16 Van Zandt County > 18 Wood County > However, some people consider "East Texas " an area of it's own, the > boundary is undefined by most, but most likely a combined area to create > from the Red River south to the Gulf. Some purists consider East Texas to > be somewhere below Bowie County but before you get to the coast and doesn't > start until you get well past Dallas to the east... Response to Jo: This is what I think, right or wrong: I have always consider East Texas as the location of what is actually only North East Texas. I never would think that Houston was East Texas! > So, I guess the answer to the question of "where is East Texas" depends on > where you think it is, all counties are covered, whether it be "north east, > east, or southeast Texas or somewhere in the middle of the North east and > Southeast.:) > Jo Autrey > jmautrey@email.msn.com > Response to Jo: Cute, 'where you think it is' The telephone Area Code is the same for Texarkana, in far northeast TX as in Panola county and in Denison/Sherman TX. Each being at least 150 miles from Texarkana < my home town >. I guess that would be one way to look at it. Thank to every one who answered my posting. I had one that said, "East Texas is every county that has a pine tree growing in it that God put there, from Oklahoma to the Gulf of Mexico, to the Louisiana State line." Sharon