Official Name: | Pierces Chapel, Texas |
Settlement Type: | Unincorporated community |
Pushpin Map: | Texas#USA |
Pushpin Label: | Pierces Chapel |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | United States |
Subdivision Type1: | State |
Subdivision Name1: | Texas |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | Cherokee |
Timezone: | Central (CST) |
Utc Offset: | -6 |
Timezone Dst: | CDT |
Utc Offset Dst: | -5 |
Elevation Ft: | 423 |
Coordinates: | 31.8789°N -95.3761°W |
Area Code: | 430 & 903 |
Blank Name: | GNIS feature ID |
Blank Info: | 1889542 |
Pierces Chapel (also Pierce's Chapel) is an unincorporated community in Cherokee County, Texas, United States.
Pierces Chapel is on Farm to Market Road 747, 14 miles northwest of Rusk, Texas. The community was named for the Methodist church in the community which was named for Bishop George Foster Pierce of the Methodist Episcopal Church, who preached there, when he was going to the annual Texas state conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church.[1]