Biohazard and Crime Scene Remediation in Reklaw, TX

Reklaw is a small city in East Texas at the junction of U.S. Highway 84 and State Highway 204, about ten miles northeast of Rusk; most of the city lies in Cherokee County, with only a small portion extending into Rusk County.

Reklaw covers 2.9 square miles, all of it land, in the East Texas Piney Woods.

A village did not begin to grow at Reklaw until 1902, when the Texas and New Orleans Railroad was built through the area and a townsite was laid out on land owned by Margaret L. Walker.

Reklaw is named for Margaret Walker, who donated the land for the townsite - residents wanted to call the town Walker, but because a Walker, Texas already existed, they simply spelled her name backward.

Reklaw's neighbor Sacul was named by the same trick - it is 'Lucas' spelled in reverse.

By 1914 Reklaw had two general stores, a sawmill, and a blacksmith shop, with a population of fifty.

By the mid-1930s Reklaw had grown to five stores and 250 inhabitants.

The 2020 census counted 332 residents in Reklaw, up from 266 in 1990 and down from a peak of 379 in 2010, at a density of about 113 people per square mile.

At the 2000 census, Reklaw's 327 residents lived in 130 households and 88 families.