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Eustace is a city in northwestern Henderson County, Texas, on U.S. Highway 175 about ten miles northwest of Athens.

Eustace appeared in 1900 when the Texas and New Orleans Railroad connected its line from Kemp to Athens through the site.

The town was named for Captain W. T. Eustace, a Virginian and Confederate veteran who had relocated to Henderson County in 1867.

The 1900 census reported just 150 people at Eustace, but by 1904 the town had three churches, two general stores, a grocery, a blacksmith, a restaurant, a saloon and a cotton gin.

Eustace was incorporated in 1926 and grew slowly for decades, reaching only about 450 people by 1940.

Eustace's growth has been helped by nearby recreation: Cedar Creek Lake, built in 1964, lies five miles southwest, and Purtis Creek State Park, established in 1988, is four miles north.

Eustace has grown in every census since 1960, from 351 people that year to 991 in 2010 and 1,137 at the 2020 census — its highest count ever.

The 2020 census counted 458 households in Eustace.

In November 2007 film crews came to Eustace to shoot the movie Fire from Below, starring Kevin Sorbo; the film was released in 2009.

Eustace students attend the Eustace Independent School District, whose kindergarten-through-high-school enrollment was already about 1,000 students back in the late 1980s.