Biohazard and Crime Scene Remediation in Emhouse, TX

Emhouse is a small incorporated town in north central Navarro County, Texas, about eight miles northwest of Corsicana.

The town was laid out around 1906 along the Trinity and Brazos Valley Railway line being built between Waxahachie and Teague.

Emhouse was originally named Lyford, but because another Texas post office already used that name, it was renamed by fusing the middle initial and surname of Col. Edward M. House, the railroad's superintendent.

The smaller nearby communities of Kelm and King Willow relocated to Emhouse to be near the railroad, and a post office opened there in 1908.

Emhouse boomed quickly: by 1914 it had an estimated 500 residents, a bank, five grocery stores, three general stores, three blacksmith shops, churches of several denominations, and its own weekly newspaper, the Emhouse News.

In 1915 the town adopted the commission form of government, and its population was still listed at about 500 as late as 1929.

The Great Depression and the postwar years hollowed the town out - its population fell to 322 by 1936 and to about 150 by the mid-1960s.

The entire town covers only about 0.3 square miles, all of it land.

In the 2000 census Emhouse counted 159 people living in just 50 households.

After dipping to 133 residents in 2010, Emhouse rebounded to 187 residents in the 2020 census - a jump of more than 40 percent.