Richland, TX

Richland is a town in Navarro County, Texas, United States. The 2020 census counted 255 residents. Richland, at the junction of Interstate 45 and State Highway 14, on Pisgah Ridge twelve miles south of Corsicana in south central Navarro County, was first settled in the late 1840s. Asa Chambers had established a store on the trail from Corsicana to Franklin by 1848, when a post office, named Richland Crossing after nearby Richland Creek, opened in his store. The short version is that Richland carries an earlier story into the places people know and use now. That is the local read on Richland: its past remains attached to the places people use now.