Oakville, Texas

Oakville, Texas
—  Unincorporated community  —
Oakville, Texas Location within the state of Texas
Coordinates: 28°26′57″N 98°6′7″W / 28.44917°N 98.10194°W / 28.44917; -98.10194Coordinates: 28°26′57″N 98°6′7″W / 28.44917°N 98.10194°W / 28.44917; -98.10194
Country	United States
State	Texas
County	Live Oak
Elevation	171 ft (52 m)
Time zone	Central (CST) (UTC-6)
– Summer (DST)	CDT (UTC-5)
ZIP codes	78060
FIPS code
GNIS feature ID	1343034

Oakville is an unincorporated community in northeastern Live Oak County, Texas, United States. It lies along Interstate 37 northeast of the city of George West, the county seat of Live Oak County.^[1] Its elevation is 171 feet (52 m).^[2] Although Oakville is unincorporated, it has a post office, with the ZIP code of 78060.^[3]

Oakville originated as a stagecoach station shortly after the Texas Revolution. A community was established in 1856, after a local landowner donated land; it soon became the county seat of Live Oak County, and its post office—the county's first—was established there in the following year. Originally referred to by the name of the local Sulphur Creek, it received its current name from an advertisement in a newspaper. After the Civil War, Oakville became a local commercial center; the county's first bank and public school were established there, and the Live Oak County Leader, a newspaper, was founded in the community in 1891. It began to decline after a railroad line was built through a different part of the county in 1913, and it lost the status of county seat after a new courthouse was built in George West in 1919.^[4]

See also

• Live Oak County Jail

References

1. ^ Rand McNally. The Road Atlas '08. Chicago: Rand McNally, 2008, p. 101.
2. ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Oakville, Texas
3. ^ Zip Code Lookup
4. ^ Oakville, Texas (Live Oak County), Handbook of Texas Online, 18 January 2008. Accessed 5 December 2008.

External links

• Community profile from the Handbook of Texas Online