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Evadale is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in southwestern Jasper County, at the junction of U.S. Highway 96 and Farm Roads 105, 1131 and 2246, about 25 miles northeast of Beaumont.

During the 1830s and 1840s the site was called Richardson's Bluff, for early settler Benjamin Richardson, who operated a ferry on the Neches River and served as postmaster in 1839.

Lumber baron John Henry Kirby renamed the site for Eva Dale, a teacher at Jasper's Southeast Texas Male and Female College, when he rebuilt the railroad line and constructed a mill there by 1904.

By 1914 Kirby's Evadale plant, known as Mill U, included kilns, a circular sawmill and a planing mill with a daily capacity of up to 70,000 board feet of lumber.

The Kirby mill closed during the Great Depression and Evadale's population fell to about 100 by the late 1940s, before the Champion Paper and Fiber Company acquired riverfront acreage for a pulp mill in 1948 and revived the town.

Evadale counted 1,246 residents at the 2020 census, down from 1,483 in 2010, across roughly 16.8 square miles of land.

The Neches River borders Evadale to the west and forms the line between Jasper County and Hardin County.

Local students are served by the Evadale Independent School District.