Welcome to Sterne ...

Sterne is located in the Piney Woods (East Texas).

Sterne is located in Nacogdoches County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Sterne, you might consider that their post office opened in 1886.

Time Zone: Sterne lies in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time

Area Code for Sterne: 936

Adding Sterne to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Sterne in the GNIS. For more information, see the Referenced GNIS Codes section on our Miscellaneous Page.

From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found for Sterne was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>

From that list, the Sterne post office opened in 1886.

We also found Sterne in the book titled Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895).

For more details, see References and Mentions for Sterne.

Footnotes ...

<1>	If you're interested in how the shape of Texas' counties, including Nacogdoches, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>	A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/