Emergency Biohazard Cleanup Services in Gary City, TX

Gary City is a small incorporated town in southwestern Panola County, on Farm Road 10 about ten miles south of Carthage, the county seat.

The first families began settling the Gary area around 1844 or 1845, and J. H. Thomas, one of the earliest arrivals, built a home that remained a longtime local landmark.

Gary was founded in 1898 when the Marshall, Timpson and Sabine Pass Railroad reached the Thomas J. Hull farm midway between Timpson and Carthage; Hull and S. Smith Garrison laid out a twenty-acre townsite and named the settlement in honor of Garrison's grandson, Gary Sanford.

The post office was moved from Mount Bethel to the new town and renamed Gary in 1899.

Gary quickly grew to about 300 people and developed into a bustling sawmill town in the early 1900s, as East Texas's virgin pine forests were being cleared.

Gary shared in the East Texas oil and gas prosperity from the 1940s into the 1980s, when its population ran between 400 and 500.

The 2020 census counted 335 people in Gary City.

In the 2000 census, Gary City's 303 residents lived in 114 households.

Gary City covers about 1.9 square miles, all of it land.

Local students attend Gary School, the single pre-K-through-12 campus of the Gary Independent School District, whose teams are known as the Bobcats.