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Oglesby is a small city in eastern Coryell County, about 13 miles east of Gatesville, and part of the Killeen-Temple-Fort Hood Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Although settlers were in the area as early as the mid-1850s, the community was not established until 1882, when the St. Louis Southwestern Railway came through.

Oglesby was first called Hilltop because it occupied the highest point above sea level on the railroad line, but it was soon renamed for William Oglesby, who donated land for the townsite.

A post office opened in Oglesby in 1883, and by 1884 the town already had gristmills, cotton gins, three churches, a district school, and about 100 residents shipping cotton and corn.

Oglesby grew to about 500 residents by the late 1920s — roughly its size ever since — and it incorporated in 1953 under a mayor-council government.

Oglesby had 441 residents at the 2020 census, down slightly from 484 in 2010, packed into just half a square mile, with a median age of 41.3 years.

The town's First Methodist Church, organized in 1891, is designated a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark.

Oglesby is served by the Oglesby Independent School District, a single-campus district of roughly 240 students whose teams are the Tigers, long known for competitive six-man football.