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Cuney is a small incorporated town in northwestern Cherokee County, Texas, located along U.S. Highway 175 in the East Texas Piney Woods.

The site was first settled by freed slaves just after the Civil War and was initially known as Andy, after Andrew "Andy" Bragg, one of the area's first Black homeowners, who arrived in 1870.

A real community did not develop until 1902, when the site became a flag stop on the Texas and New Orleans Railroad.

Around 1914, Palestine cashier H. L. Price and local investors platted the townsite and named it for Price's son Cuney Price, who had himself been named for Norris Wright Cuney, the prominent Black politician who headed the Texas Republican Party.

Cuney received its own post office in 1917.

Cuney was the only "wet" town in Cherokee County from the mid-1980s until 2009, when Rusk voters approved beer and wine sales.

The town was not incorporated until November 1983, more than a century after its first settlers arrived.

Cuney peaked at 170 residents in the 1990 census and had 116 residents at the 2020 census.

At the 2000 census, Cuney's 145 residents lived in just 59 households.

The town covers only about 1.64 square miles, all of it land.