Rhea Mills is an unincorporated farming community in

Collin County, Texas Collin County is a county in the northern part of 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 c ...

, United States. According to the

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, the community had a population of 47 in 2000. It is located within the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex.

History

The area in what is known as Rhea Mills today was first settled in 1857. W.A. and J.C. Rhea built a flour and

cornmill A gristmill (also: grist mill, corn mill, flour mill, feed mill or feedmill) grinds cereal grain into flour and Wheat middlings, middlings. The term can refer to either the grinding mechanism or the building that holds it. Grist is grain that h ...

here. It was originally named Rhea's Mills, but it was changed to simply Rhea Mills in early 1982. A post office was established at Rhea Mills in 1876 and remained in operation until 1907 when mail was rerouted from McKinney. It has served as a trade and supply center for local farmers for most of its existence. It has never had more than 100 people since 1990, and from 1942 through that year, its population was less than 50. It went down to 47 in 2000. On April 22, 1968, an F1 tornado struck Rhea Mills.

Geography

Rhea Mills is located at the intersection of Farm to Market Roads 2478 and

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, northwest of

McKinney McKinney is a city in and the county seat of Collin County, Texas, United States. 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 ...

in northwestern Collin County.

Education

Today the community is served by the

Prosper Independent School District Prosper Independent School District (PISD or Prosper ISD) is a public school district based in Prosper, Texas, Prosper, Texas, United States. Located in Collin County, Texas, Collin County, a portion of the district extends into Denton County, T ...

. It is zoned for Cynthia A. Cockrell and Mike and Janie Reeves Elementary Schools, Lorene Rogers Middle School, and Walnut Grove High School.

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