Bessmay is an
unincorporated community
An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...
in eastern
Jasper County, in the
U.S. state
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of
Texas
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.
The community is on County Road 640, approximately one half mile east of
U.S. Route 96
U.S. Highway 96 (US 96) is a north–south United States Numbered Highway that runs for about entirely in the U.S state of Texas. Its number is a violation of the standard numbering convention, as even-numbered two-digit highways are eas ...
. The community of
Buna lies approximately 1.3 miles to the south-southwest.
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History
Bessmay began in about 1900 as a lumbering town on the railroad. The community was named for Bessmay Kirby, the daughter of a sawmill owner.
References
Unincorporated communities in Jasper County, Texas
Unincorporated communities in Texas
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