Broom City, Texas


Broom City is an unincorporated community in Anderson County, located in the U.S. state of Texas. According to the Handbook of Texas, it had a population of 20 in 2000. It is a part of the Palestine, Texas micropolitan area.

History

The 1936 county highway map showed farms and only one operating business in that community, and it is thought to have existed with that name by the 1940s. It only had a few scattered houses in a rural area, and it had an estimated population of just 20 in 2000.

Geography

Broom City stands along Texas State Highway 294 and Farm to Market Road 2419 about southeast of Palestine in the southern portion of Anderson County.