Simpsonville, Texas
Unincorporated community in Texas, US
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Simpsonville is an unincorporated community in northwestern Upshur County, Texas, United States.[1]
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| Coordinates: 32°51′39″N 95°04′10″W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Texas |
| County | Upshur County |
History
Originally named Chelsea when founded in the 1850s, the town name was changed to Simpsonville on April 22, 1858, in honor of an early settler.[2] Highway signage and road maps indicate this community is named Thomas, due to a subsequent renaming of the town occasioned in 1913 when the town's application for a new post office—the most recent post office had been closed in 1906 by postal officials—had been rejected on the grounds that a Matagorda County town called Simpsonville had just been granted a post office.[2]