{{Short description|Unincorporated community in Texas, US}} {{Use American English|date=July 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=January 2025}} {{Infobox settlement | name = Wilkinson | settlement_type = Unincorporated community | pushpin_map = Texas | pushpin_map_caption = Location in Texas | coordinates = {{coord|33|20|54|N|94|57|06|W|region:US-TX|display=inline,title}} | subdivision_type = Country | subdivision_name = United States | subdivision_type1 = State | subdivision_name1 = Texas | subdivision_type2 = County | subdivision_name2 = Titus | named_for = Local family | elevation_footnotes = <ref name=gnis/> | elevation_ft = 325 | population_total = 150 | population_as_of = 2000 | blank_name = GNIS feature ID | blank_info = 1376800<ref name=gnis>{{GNIS|1376800}}</ref> }} '''Wilkinson''' is an unincorporated community in Titus County, Texas, United States.<ref name=gnis/>
== History == Wilkinson is situated on the junction of Farm to Market Roads 71 and 1402. It was settled in the 1870s, and was previously named '''New Bethlehem''' and '''Pad's Chapel''', for settler Pad Harris. A post office operated from 1888 to 1914, and was named Wilkinson, after a local family. A newspaper ''Free Press'' was established in Wilkinson and was edited by district clerk J. Ab Ward. In 1896, the town's population was an estimated 600, but is inaccurate.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Association |first=Texas State Historical |title=Wilkinson, TX |url=https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/wilkinson-tx |access-date=2024-08-06 |website=Texas State Historical Association |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cLdhjwEACAAJ |title=History of Titus County, Texas, 1846 to 1960 |date=1961 |publisher=Franklin County Genealogical Society (Texas) |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":2">{{Cite journal |last=Hamric |first=Roy |date=1978 |title=Review of Between the Creeks: Recollections of Northeast Texas; The Rodeo of John Addison Stryker |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/30238581 |journal=The Southwestern Historical Quarterly |volume=82 |issue=2 |pages=227–229 |jstor=30238581 |issn=0038-478X}}</ref>
Between World War I and World War II, the town was nicknamed '''Sugar Hill'''. It originated from either settler Sug Harris, the town's abundance of sugar, or the women in the town being "sweet as sugar". Oil was discovered in Wilkinson in the 1930s. As of 2000, the town had a population of 150.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" /><ref name=":2" />
== References == <references responsive="1"></references>{{Titus County, Texas}}
Category:Unincorporated communities in Titus County, Texas Category:1870s establishments in Texas