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Goree is a small city in southeastern Knox County, at the junction of U.S. Highway 277 and Farm Road 266, about eighty-four miles north of Abilene in the Rolling Plains of Texas.

Settlers began arriving in the Goree area about 1886, and by 1887 a settlement was centered on a store and post office built by Bill Benedict.

The community was originally called Riley Springs, then renamed Goree after Robert D. Goree, a Confederate veteran, cattleman, and Knox County pioneer who encouraged settlement of the county.

The modern town of Goree was laid out in 1905 when residents raised funds to attract the Wichita Valley Railroad; the track was completed in 1906, and Goree incorporated that same year.

When the local school moved to the new Goree townsite in 1906, it was given the memorable name Chigger Hill School.

Goree's population peaked at 640 in the 1950 census, when it was a busy farm and ranch trade center.

Goree had a population of 158 at the 2020 census, down sharply from 203 in 2010 and a fraction of its mid-century size.

The city covers about 1.5 square miles, all of it land.

Goree had its own school district for most of its history, but on July 1, 2003, the Goree Independent School District merged with the Munday district to form the Munday Consolidated Independent School District.

Goree sits in Knox County, which was named for Henry Knox, the first United States Secretary of War under George Washington.