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Chapman, Texas

unincorporated community in Texas, United States

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 10, 2026
Entity authorityQ116312053 ↗
Source-derived summary

Chapman is an unincorporated community in Rusk County, located in the U.S. state of Texas. According to the Handbook of Texas, the community had a population of 20 in 2000. It is located within the Longview, Texas metropolitan area.

Geography

Chapman is located on Texas State Highway 79 near Trammel's Trace, 8 mi (13 km) east of Henderson, 19 mi (31 km) west of Carthage, and 26 mi (42 km) southeast of Kilgore in eastern Rusk County.

Education

Today, the community is served by the Henderson Independent School District.

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The public source identifies “Chapman, Texas” as unincorporated community in Texas, United States. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Chapman, Texas and unincorporated.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2000—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Chapman, Texas and unincorporated providing the first useful test.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 10, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q116312053. Authority coordinates are 32.150, -94.633. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2000.

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This entry incorporates text from “Chapman, 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.