Iola, TX

Iola is a city in Grimes County, Texas, United States, on Farm to Market Road 39 and the Burlington-Rock Island Railroad, at the headwaters of Ragan Creek in northwestern Grimes County. The 2020 census counted 311 residents. On November 6, 2007, it became the fifth incorporated city in Grimes County after a residential vote. Iola is believed to have been named for Edward Ariola, one of Stephen F. The short version is that Iola carries an earlier story into the places people know and use now. That is the local read on Iola: its past remains attached to the places people use now. Iola is located in northwestern Grimes County between Bryan, 23 miles to the southwest, and Huntsville, 36 miles to the east. Navasota, the largest city in Grimes County, is 32 miles to the south.