Official Name: | Augusta, Texas |
Settlement Type: | Unincorporated community |
Pushpin Map: | Texas#USA |
Pushpin Label: | Augusta |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | United States |
Subdivision Type1: | State |
Subdivision Name1: | Texas |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | Houston |
Timezone: | Central (CST) |
Utc Offset: | -6 |
Timezone Dst: | CDT |
Utc Offset Dst: | -5 |
Elevation Ft: | 374 |
Coordinates: | 31.5317°N -95.3308°W |
Area Code: | 430 & 903 |
Blank1 Name: | GNIS feature ID |
Blank1 Info: | 1384223 |
Augusta is an unincorporated community in Houston County, Texas, United States. According to the Handbook of Texas, the community had a population of 20 in 2000.
On October 18, 1838, the community was the scene of a massacre. Four historical markers stand at the site of the massacre, which took the lives of early settlers and Native Americans.[1]
Augusta is located on Farm to Market Road 227, 16miles northeast of Crockett in northeastern Houston County.
W.M. Waddell was the teacher at the Augusta Male and Female Academy in 1860. The community had a school in 1885. Local students (if any) go to school in the Grapeland ISD.
Augusta was featured in the Scott Nixon home movie The Augustas.[2]