Blood, Trauma, and Biohazard Cleanup in Richland, TX

Richland is a small town in south-central Navarro County, Texas, standing on Pisgah Ridge at the junction of Interstate 45 and State Highway 14, about twelve miles south of Corsicana.

Richland was first settled in the late 1840s, and by 1848 Asa Chambers had established a store on the trail from Corsicana to Franklin.

A post office named Richland Crossing, after nearby Richland Creek, opened in Chambers's store in 1848.

When the Houston and Texas Central Railway was built through the area in 1871, its station on Pisgah Ridge was designated Richland, and a new community grew up around the depot.

Richland's first school began operating around the time of the Civil War, and by 1906 the town had a two-teacher school with an enrollment of seventy-five.

By the mid-1890s Richland had two steam gristmills and cotton gins, three general stores, a grocer, two blacksmiths, two saloons, a hardware store, and a bank.

Richland reached its peak population of about 750 in 1929, just before the Great Depression set off a long decline.

By 1950 Richland was down to 369 residents and twelve businesses, and by 1990 it had only 244 residents and a single business.

The 2020 census counted 255 people in Richland; in the 2000 census its residents had lived in 126 households.

Richland covers only about 1.1 square miles of Navarro County land, all of it dry land.