BURRIS PRAIRIE, TEXAS. Burris Prairie was near Bald Hill in south central Angelina County. The area was first settled before the Civil Warqv by pioneers from the Old South. A post office operated there from 1860 to 1866, but by the 1880s the community was no longer shown on maps.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Angelina County Historical Survey Committee, Land of the Little Angel: A History of Angelina County, Texas, ed. Bob Bowman (Lufkin, Texas: Lufkin Printing, 1976).
Christopher Long
