Wesley Chapel is an

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Houston County, Texas Houston County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 census, its population was 22,066. Its county seat is Crockett. Houston County was one of 46 entirely dry counties in the state of Texas, until voters in a November ...

, United States. It is located off Farm to Market Road 229, from

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. It was settled after the

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, and a school was built in 1897. A new Wesley Chapel school was built approximately south in 1912. It was last used in 1948 and was destroyed by a tornado in 1953. Students in the area are zoned within the Latexo Independent School District.

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Populated places in Houston County, Texas {{HoustonCountyTX-geo-stub