Culleoka is a populated place in

Collin County Collin County is located in the U.S. state of Texas. It is part of the Dallas- Fort Worth- Arlington metropolitan statistical area, and a small portion of the city of Dallas is in the county. At the 2020 United States census, the county's popula ...

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, United States. It is located within the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex.

History

The early settlers of Culleoka named the community for their hometown in

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. It was established in the latter part of the 1880s after a general store was built in 1887. Twenty people were living there in 1892, and by 1900 a mill and

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were running there. There was a post office at Culleoka from 1893 to 1906, catering to an estimated fifty residents. Following 1906, the community's mail was delivered to McKinney. The population of Culleoka increased to 150 during the ensuing several decades, and it stayed there until the late 1940s. The village had four churches and three or four businesses in the 1930s. The area had a downturn in the late 1940s, partly because of the expansion of Plano nearby and the disturbance brought about by the construction of

Lavon Dam Lavon Dam is located in Collin County, Texas on the East Fork of the Trinity River, about 3 miles east of Wylie and 22 miles northeast of Dallas. It was constructed to create the Lavon Lake Lavon Lake is a freshwater reservoir located in southea ...

in 1954, which created a sizable reservoir. In 1990, the community continued to exist.

Geography

Culleoka is located on a spur off of Farm to Market Road 982 near Lavon Lake, east of

McKinney McKinney is a city in and the county seat of Collin County, Texas. It is Collin County's third-largest city, after Plano, Texas, Plano and Frisco, Texas, Frisco. A suburb of the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, McKinney is about north of Dallas. ...

in east-central

Education

Culleoka had its own high school in the 1930s. Today the community is served by the

Princeton Independent School District Princeton Independent School District is a rural public school district based in Princeton, Texas (USA). The district covers , serving not only the city of Princeton but also the surrounding communities of Culleoka, Lowry Crossing, Branch, Clima ...

. It is zoned for Godwin and Harper Elementary Schools, Clark Middle School, and

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References

Unincorporated communities in Collin County, Texas Unincorporated communities in Texas {{CollinCountyTX-geo-stub