Unattended Death and Biohazard Cleanup in Grays Prairie, TX

Grays Prairie is a small incorporated village in south central Kaufman County, Texas — a farming community near the junction of Farm Roads 1388 and 148, about three miles south of Kaufman.

The community developed during the late 1840s and early 1850s in the vicinity of the earlier settlement of Peede.

Grays Prairie was named for the Gray family, who arrived in the area during the late 1850s; Nicholas H. Gray had received a grant of 640 acres at the headwaters of nearby Bois d'Arc Creek.

For most of its history Grays Prairie was a tiny farm center, with a population varying between roughly fifty and eighty around 1900 and falling to just twenty in 1936.

The village grew quickly late in the twentieth century, from about fifty residents in 1972 to 171 in 1986 and 304 in 1991.

The 2020 census counted 325 people in Grays Prairie, slightly down from 337 in 2010.

In the 2000 census, Grays Prairie's 296 residents lived in just 98 households, 87 of them families.

Grays Prairie covers about 1.3 square miles, almost all of it land.

Recent Census Bureau survey estimates put Grays Prairie's median household income at roughly $129,000, far above the village's 2000 median of about $43,900.