Yantis, TX

Yantis is a town in Wood County, Texas, United States. The 2020 census counted 405 residents. The town is surrounded on three sides by Lake Fork Reservoir. Yantis is located at the intersection of State Highway 154 and Farm to Market Road 17 approximately 12 miles north of the county seat of Quitman in northwestern Wood County. Yantis's local map joins its older history to the places and landscapes that still shape the town today, all within the wider Texas setting. The local scoop is how Yantis's history still shows up in the places people visit, work, learn, and meet. The area that became Yantis was reportedly settled initially by Harry M. Matthews as early as 1860.