Biohazard and Crime Scene Remediation in Gallatin, TX

Gallatin is a small incorporated farming city in central Cherokee County in the Piney Woods of East Texas, six miles north of Rusk at the junction of Farm Roads 22 and 768.

The area was first settled in the late 1840s, but the community only took shape in 1902 when the Texas and New Orleans Railroad was built through; developer John Chandler named the new town Gallatin after his hometown of Gallatin, Tennessee, and a post office opened in 1903.

Gallatin quickly became a shipping market for tomatoes and other truck crops, and by 1914 it had about 350 residents, several churches, two general stores, a drugstore, a school, and a cotton gin.

In 1916 fire destroyed virtually the entire business district, but the town was quickly rebuilt and reported as many as 500 residents in the mid-1930s.

Gallatin declined after World War II, and its school was consolidated into the Rusk schools in the 1950s as businesses closed.

Despite the decline, Gallatin incorporated in the early 1980s, long after its boom years had passed.

The 2020 census counted just 321 residents in Gallatin, down from 419 in 2010, across about 4.6 square miles - making it one of the smallest incorporated cities in Cherokee County.

The city sits at about 340 feet above sea level, and its ZIP codes are shared with the surrounding Rusk and Jacksonville countryside.