Pierces Chapel, Texas

Pierces Chapel, Texas
Unincorporated community
Pierces Chapel
Coordinates: 31°52′44″N 95°22′34″W / 31.87889°N 95.37611°W / 31.87889; -95.37611Coordinates: 31°52′44″N 95°22′34″W / 31.87889°N 95.37611°W / 31.87889; -95.37611
Country	United States
State	Texas
County	Cherokee
Elevation	423 ft (129 m)
Time zone	Central (CST) (UTC-6)
• Summer (DST)	CDT (UTC-5)
Area code(s)	430 & 903
GNIS feature ID	1889542^[1]

Pierces Chapel (also Pierce's Chapel) is an unincorporated community in Cherokee County, Texas, United States.^[1]

History

Pierces Chapel is on Farm Road 747, 14 miles northwest of Rusk, Texas. The community was named for the Methodist church in the community which was named for Bishop George Foster Pierce of the Methodist Episcopal Church, who preached there, when he was going to the annual Texas state conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church.^[2]

Notes

Municipalities and communities of Cherokee County, Texas, United States

County seat: Rusk

Cities	Gallatin Jacksonville New Summerfield Reklaw‡ Rusk Troup‡

Towns	Alto Bullard‡ Cuney Wells

CDP	Shadybrook

Other unincorporated communities	Atoy Blackjack Church Hill Concord Corine Cove Springs Craft Delmer Dialville Earle's Chapel Forest Fry's Gap Gould Ironton Larissa Linwood Maydelle Mixon Mount Selman New Hope Oakland Pierces Chapel Pine Hill Ponta Reese Salem Shady Grove Tecula Turney Weeping Mary

Ghost towns	Etna Lone Star New Birmingham

Footnotes	‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties

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