Walnut Grove 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
Collin County
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 cens ...
,
Texas
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, United States.
Description
The community is located along
Wilson Creeek and
Farm to Market Road 2478
A farm (also called an agricultural holding) is an area of land that is devoted primarily to agricultural processes with the primary objective of producing food and other crops; it is the basic facility in food production. The name is used fo ...
(approximately 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 ...
) and is now mostly within the
city limits
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of
Propser.
History
The community was first settled 1844 by the Searcy family, who had migrated from
Kentucky
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. In the ensuing several years, more pioneers moved to area from Kentucky and
Missouri
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. Soon a
Presbyterian
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church was established, as well as a
cemetery
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by 1863 (the year on the earliest marked graves). A school was established by the 1900s. However, for most of its history, Walnut Grove remained a rural farming community.
Recently it has become more of
bedroom community
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.
In 1976, the Walnut Grove Presbyterian Church was designated as a Texas Historic Landmark. The historic marker states:
See also
*
List of unincorporated communities in Texas
This is a list of unincorporated communities in the U.S. state of Texas, listed by county. This may include disincorporated communities, towns with no incorporated status, ghost towns, or census-designated places.
See also
*List of cities i ...
References
External links
Walnut Grove - Rhea Mills - Prosper history
Unincorporated communities in Collin County, Texas
Unincorporated communities in Texas
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