Welcome to Rural Shade ...Rural Shade is located Rural Shade is located in Navarro County<1>. While we don't have a date for the founding of Rural Shade, you might consider that their post office opened in 1858. Rural Shade is 330 feet [101 m] above sea level.<2>. Time Zone: Rural Shade lies in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Rural Shade. We have a couple of sections for those tracing their genealogy. We created a list of cemeteries that are in the area around Rural Shade. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Rural Shade. Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Rural Shade. Our list includes information such as whether the 1895 community had a post office or railroad service. See our List of 1890's Communities around Rural Shade. We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Rural Shade. See our Newspapers Page for Rural Shade. Looking for more information about Rural Shade? A wonderful source is the TripAdvisor website. We always start with the TripAdvisor Tourism page, where you can read an overview with links that will help you find lodging, restaurants and attractions. While we are unaware of a Tourism page that is specific to Rural Shade, there are neighboring communities that do have Tourism pages. A map of those communities can be found with our TripAdvisor Page for Rural Shade. We originally found mention of Rural Shade in both the FIPS-55 and the GNIS. For more information, see the FIPS and GNIS Codes sections on our Miscellaneous Page. From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found (so far) for Rural Shade was on a map titled Map of Texas (from Rand McNally, 1911).
For more details, see References and Mentions for Rural Shade.
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