Ore City is a city in Upshur County, Texas, United States. The population was 1,144 at the 2010 census.
Ore City is located at 32°48′3″N 94°43′3″W / 32.80083°N 94.7175°W / 32.80083; -94.7175 (32.800770, -94.717446). It is situated approximately 13 miles northeast of Gilmer at the junction of U.S. Highway 259 and FM 450.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 2.3 square miles (5.9 km²), of which, 2.3 square miles (5.9 km²) of it is land and 0.04 square miles (0.1 km²) of it (0.88%) is water.
Originally part of the William Murray League, the area was first settled in the early 1850s by a group from Haywood County, Tennessee. They immediately started a church – “The Murray League Methodist Episcopal Church, South” as well as a school, the Murray League Institute. After the Civil War, rich iron ore deposits were discovered in the area and ore was mined sporadically from the 1860s through 1900.
Around 1910, a commercial company led by Colonel L.P….
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