Mapleton is an

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, United States. As of 2000, its population was 32, according to the

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History

''Circa'' 1924, T. J. Maples and his family founded Mapleton. Because there were so many

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s left over after the Maples family cleared the area, the community was once called Stumpville. Stumpville had a chapel, a few shops, and numerous dwellings by the middle of the 1930s. The Maples built a sign identifying the town as Mapleton in 1950. Early in the 1990s, Mapleton was a dispersed rural community with a few shops. Thirty-two people were recorded as living there in 2000. The small town was damaged by an EF2 tornado on March 21, 2022.

Geography

Mapleton is located on

Texas State Highway 21 State Highway 21 (SH 21) runs from the Texas-Louisiana boundary east of San Augustine to San Marcos in east and central Texas. SH 21 mostly follows the alignment of the Old San Antonio Road and the El Camino Real, except for the portion ...

, southwest of Crockett in southwestern Houston County.

Education

Mapleton is served by the

Lovelady Independent School District Lovelady Independent School District is a public school district based in Lovelady, Texas, Lovelady, Texas (United States, USA), located within Houston County, Texas, Houston County. The district has two campuses - Lovelady High School, Lovela ...

References

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