Chita
Chita is on Farm Road 355 some nine miles southwest of Groveton in southwestern Trinity County. The area was first settled before the Civil War, but a community did not begin to develop there until the 1890s. A post office was established for the community in 1895, and a school was founded the next year. By 1914 Chita had a general store, a cotton gin and gristmill, a stone and sand company, and a reported population of sixty. Its post office closed in 1929, but in the mid-1930s Chita still had two businesses and a population of seventy-five. The community's population declined during the 1950s and 1960s but then began to grow because of the community's proximity to Lake Livingston. In 1990 Chita was a dispersed rural community with an estimated population of seventy-five. In 2000 the population reached eighty-one.
Christopher Long | © TSHA
Adapted from the official Handbook of Texas, a state encyclopedia developed by Texas State Historical Association (TSHA). It is an authoritative source of trusted historical records.
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Belongs to
Chita is part of or belongs to the following places:
Currently Exists
Yes
Place type
Chita is classified as a Town
Associated Names
- (Chapman)
Location
Latitude: 30.93657550Longitude: -95.20827110
Has Post Office
No
Is Incorporated
No
Population Count, 2014
81