Bee House, Texas
unincorporated community in Coryell County, Texas
Bee House is an unincorporated community in Coryell County, Texas, United States. According to the Handbook of Texas, the community had a population of 40 in 2000. It is located within the Killeen-Temple-Fort Hood metropolitan area.
History
Founded in the 1850s, the community was originally named Boyd's Cove for James Boyd. The community's post office opened in 1884; residents wanted the post office to be named Bee Hive for the bees found in nearby caves and cliffs, but the U.S. Postal Service named it Bee House instead. In the mid-1880s, Bee House had 150 residents served by a general store, a corn mill, and four churches. The community also had a Masonic lodge until 1916. The population went down to 50 in 1940. The community still had a church and post office as of the 1980s. Its population was 40 in 1990 and 2000.
This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Bee House, Texas” as unincorporated community in Coryell County, Texas. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.
Why this record matters
The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as unincorporated community in Coryell County, Texas. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.
Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 5, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q14710326. Authority coordinates are 31.403, -98.081. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2000, 1884, 1916 and 1940.
Modern boundaries and familiar names can conceal earlier jurisdictions or structures that do not align with the present site. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.
How to read it
Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.
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- Jurisdictional context
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This entry incorporates text from “Bee House, Texas” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.