Seven Points, TX - Population 1455
N 32° 19.421 W 096° 17.035
14S E 755684 N 3579556
Seven Points, TX, population 1455 as of this posting. This sign is located on the south side of FM 85, at the western city limit.
Waymark Code: WMN90Y
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 01/21/2015
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The Handbook of Texas Online has this to say about Seven Points: (
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Seven Points is on State Highway 274 twenty miles northwest of Athens in far northwestern Henderson County. The largely residential community grew up in the 1960s after the construction of nearby Cedar Creek Reservoir and was incorporated in the 1970s. The population was 224 in 1980. In 1990 the population was 723, and the community had spread into Kaufman County. By 1992 the community had a bank, a post office, and reported a population of 1,071. The population reached 1,145 in 2000.
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The city is named for an intersection where seven roads converge: The seven roads consist of two state highways (three directions -- SH 274 x 2 and SH 334), a Farm to Market road (FM 85), and three county roads (CR 2402, 2403, and 2404).