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Town of Stagecoach, Montgomery
Texas
STAGECOACH, TEXAS. Stagecoach is on the heavily wooded east bank of Sulphur
Creek sixteen miles southwest of Conroe in southwestern Montgomery County. The
development was begun in 1958 on a nineteenth-century stagecoach route and
became known as Stagecoach Farms. The area had been a farm owned by W. L.
Swinley, who employed several black families as tenant farmers and at his
sawmill. The new community has two small artificial lakes-Lake Apache and Lake
Hardin-constructed on the lower course of Sulphur Creek, and two parks for the
exclusive use of residents. A civic club was organized among local property
owners in the 1960s. In 1974 the town chose its first mayor. A population of 270
was reported in 1978. When the community incorporated in 1980 it adopted the
name Stagecoach. By that year 108 permanent and vacation residences had been
constructed in the development. The local pine and oak woods are habitat for
deer, raccoons, and opossums. The population in 1990 was 340.
Charles Christopher Jackson
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