Joinerville, Texas
Unincorporated community in Rusk County · Not an incorporated municipality
About Joinerville
Joinerville is an unincorporated community in East Texas. It is located in western Rusk County, Texas, United States approximately seven miles west of the city of Henderson.
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How Joinerville is governed
Joinerville appears to be an unincorporated community or a census-designated place, so it may have no city government of its own — services usually come from Rusk County and its elected officials. The chart below is a generic template; readers can correct it if Joinerville does have local officials.
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Residents of Joinerville
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The budget, taxes, and city accounts.
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City Clerk
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City Attorney
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History
The community was originally called Cyril, and then Miller or Miller Schoolhouse for either Andrew or John Cherry Miller. The latter owned seven enslaved persons and donated 1,000 acres (400 ha) of land for the Juan Ximenes Survey before the Civil War. The community is also located near the site of a former Cherokee Indian village.
In 1930, the name was officially changed to "Joinerville", in honor of Columbus Marion Joiner, the wildcatter who discovered the East Texas Oil Field. The dirt road to the discovery well, Daisy Bradford No. 3, intersected the Henderson-Tyler highway at Joinerville.
During the oil-boom years that followed 1930, men and families flocked to East Texas to find work in the oilfields and Joinerville's population rose to 1,500. During the 1930s, the town had thirty-five businesses and a new post office (established in 1931 with Esther L. Berry as the first postmistress).
By 1940, oil production had peaked and the town's population quickly dropped to just 500. Over the decade that followed, the number of residents continued its downward trend to 350 and the number of reported businesses dropped to just four. After a slight upswing during the 1950s and 1960s, the population again fell greatly. From 1980 through 2000, Joinerville reported just 140 residents and four businesses.
By 1950, while the existing oil wells continued to pump 20 years after the discovery of the oilfield (many still pumping to this day), the need to drill new wells had long passed. As work dried up, most families left Joinerville. Over 20 years, Joinerville transitioned from a boomtown to a ghost town. Most of its original buildings are gone.
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