Biohazard Cleanup Near North Richards Richards, TX

Richards is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in east-central Grimes County, at the junction of Farm Roads 1486 and 149, with Lake Creek flowing just to its east.

Richards was founded in 1907, when residents of the older Lake Creek-area settlements of Fairview (also called Dolph) and Longstreet moved to the new Trinity and Brazos Valley Railway line — some even used log rollers to move their houses and businesses intact to the new townsite.

Railway officials named Richards for W. E. Richards, a prominent South Texas banker and organizer of the Valley Route and Townsite Loan Company.

Richards grew quickly, reaching 450 residents by 1910 and about 500 residents with eighteen businesses by 1936.

After World War II Richards slowly declined, falling to about 296 residents by 1990, a level it still held in 2000.

The Census Bureau counted Richards as a CDP for the first time in 2020, recording 184 residents at a density of about 101 people per square mile.

Richards has its own school district — Richards Independent School District serves local students, alongside the Montgomery and Anderson-Shiro districts in the surrounding area.

Richards sits in Grimes County, formed in 1846 and named for Jesse Grimes, a signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence, in countryside first settled by Anglo-American immigrants in the early 1830s.