Stony Service Station - Stony, TX
N 33° 13.680 W 097° 21.227
14S E 653394 N 3677771
This old service station is one of just a few buildings that survives in Stony, TX. It is located on the west side of FM 2622, as you approach the Old Stony Road.
Waymark Code: WMRHRV
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 06/24/2016
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This service station has been restored, with the remains of a few vintage gas pumps and an old farm vehicle out front: There's no indication as to whether they were here with the service station back when Stony was still with us. Note that this is on private property -- it's protected by a fence, and photos were taken from behind it -- so do not trespass.
The Methodist church, the Stony School (on the property adjacent to the church), the Stony Cemetery, and a few odds and sods like this old service station are about all that remain of Stony, TX (sometimes "Stoney"). The Handbook of Texas Online fills in with some information about this nearly-vanished community:
Stony is on Farm Road 2622 two miles east of the Wise county line and ten miles west of Denton in far west Denton County. It was settled in the late 1850s and was named for the stony area in which it was located. Its population never exceeded fifty, probably due to the emergence of Justin, eight miles southwest, as a shipping point for area farmers. Stony had a post office from 1879 to 1918. In 1884 it had a mill, a gin, four churches, two schools, and a population estimated at 130. By 1890 the population had dropped to fifty. In 1914 the town had 100 residents, a doctor, a blacksmith, and at least two stores. From 1933 to 2000 its population was estimated at twenty-five. In 2004 a school building dating back to 1884 still stood in the community, and a restored 1839 log cabin, located nearby, was open to the public as local museum.