Ruth Springs 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 Henderson County, located in the

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. As of 2000, its population was 15.

Geography

The community lies on the western shore of the Cedar Creek Reservoir, few km far from the

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, between the cities of

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and

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. The

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is concentrated mainly around the lakefront.

References

Unincorporated communities in Henderson County, Texas Unincorporated communities in Texas {{HendersonCountyTX-geo-stub