Cuney, Texas
| Cuney, Texas | |
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 Location of Cuney, Texas |
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| Coordinates: 32°2′3″N 95°25′4″W / 32.03417°N 95.41778°WCoordinates: 32°2′3″N 95°25′4″W / 32.03417°N 95.41778°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Texas |
| County | Cherokee |
| Area | |
| • Total | 1.64 sq mi (4.26 km2) |
| • Land | 1.64 sq mi (4.26 km2) |
| • Water | 0.0 sq mi (0.0 km2) |
| Elevation | 374 ft (114 m) |
| Population (2010) | |
| • Total | 140 |
| • Density | 85/sq mi (32.9/km2) |
| Time zone | Central (CST) (UTC-6) |
| • Summer (DST) | CDT (UTC-5) |
| ZIP code | 75759 |
| Area code(s) | 430, 903 |
| FIPS code | 48-18152 |
| GNIS feature ID | 1333813 |
Cuney is a town in Cherokee County, Texas, United States. Cuney is located in the northwestern portion of the county along U.S. Highway 175. The population was 140 at the 2010 census.
Cuney was the only "wet" town in Cherokee County from the mid-1980s until 2009, when voters in Rusk came out in favor of beer/wine sales. Cuney is still the only town in the county selling liquor.
Cuney is located at 32°2′3″N 95°25′4″W / 32.03417°N 95.41778°W (32.034127, -95.417769). It is situated just west of the junction of U.S. Highway 175 and FM 855 in northwestern Cherokee County, approximately 10 miles (16 km) northwest of Jacksonville, 24 miles (39 km) northwest of Rusk, and 28 miles (45 km) southeast of Athens.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 1.64 square miles (4.26 km2), all of it land. The Neches River forms the northwest border of the town and the Cherokee/Anderson County line.
The site was first settled by freed slaves just after the Civil War. The settlement was initially known as Andy, after Andrew "Andy" Bragg, one of the area's first black homeowners. He arrived in 1870. A community didn't develop until 1902, when the site became a flag stop on the Texas and New Orleans Railroad, which became part of the Southern Pacific system in 1961. Around 1914, Palestine cashier H.L. Price and several local investors formed a company and platted a town site. They named the town Cuney, after Price's son, Cuney Price – who in turn had been named for Norris Wright Cuney, a prominent black politician and head of the state's Republican Party. A post office was established in 1917 and a number of businesses were operating in the community by the early 1920s. With the paving of U.S. Highway 175 in 1929, most of the businesses moved a mile north of the railroad to take advantage of the increased traffic. The population was estimated at 100 in 1929, but declined to only 25 by the mid-1930s. A number of businesses closed after World War II as agricultural prices decreased and residents moved to other cities with greater employment opportunities. Cuney had a population of 75 in the early 1950s. From that period, the community steadily grew, and Cuney was incorporated in November 1983. In the 1990 census, the town had 170 residents. That number had fallen to 145 by 2000.
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