Biohazard and Crime Scene Remediation in St. Paul, TX

St. Paul is a small town in southern Collin County, Texas, on Farm Road 2514 along the shore of Lavon Lake, about eleven miles south of McKinney.

St. Paul was named for the biblical evangelist Paul, and Irish immigrant families - including the Gallaghers, Millers, and Neilons from County Roscommon, Ireland - settled the area near the East Fork of the Trinity River around 1855.

St. Paul had its own post office by 1876, and by 1890 it had thirty residents, a general store, a gristmill, and a cotton gin, though the post office was withdrawn in 1894.

A school had been started at St. Paul before 1880 and was still operating in 1900, and the community's early Catholic church gave rise to the St. Paul Catholic Cemetery, which is still maintained today.

When the East Fork of the Trinity River was dammed in the 1950s to create Lavon Lake, much of the farmland of St. Paul's early settler families was covered by the lake.

St. Paul incorporated in the mid-1970s, when the town had a population of about 150.

As of the 2020 census, St. Paul had a population of 992, after peaking at 1,066 in 2010 during the Dallas-Fort Worth suburban boom.

St. Paul's 992 residents lived in 239 households and 201 families in 2020.

St. Paul's population grew from just 363 in 1980 to 630 in 2000 as Collin County - which counted over one million residents in 2020 - became one of the fastest-growing counties in the United States.