About Palmer, Texas

Palmer is a town in northeastern Ellis County, where the 2020 census recorded 2,393 residents. The community took shape after the Houston and Texas Central Railway arrived in 1872, then developed as a shipping center for area cotton and grain growers. Its early civic life included a post office, businesses, schools, churches, and local newspapers.

  • Railroad NamesakeThe town was named for D. S. Palmer, a Houston physician who held stock in the railroad company.
  • Incorporated in 1890Palmer formally incorporated in 1890, nearly two decades after the railway reached the community.
  • Brickmaking ArrivesThe Palmer Press Brick Company opened a local plant in 1902 and was later known as the Barron Brick Company.
  • Hollywood in PalmerParts of the 1983 film Tender Mercies were filmed in Palmer, though most production took place in Waxahachie.
  • Three District SchoolsPalmer Independent School District includes an elementary school, a middle school, and a high school.

Find your street

Names on the Palmer map

Every name below is printed on this map. Look for your street, your school, the park where you played, or the pond down the road.

Places and landmarks1

  • Palmer Cemetery

Streets and roads65

  • North Dallas Road
  • North Dallas Street
  • South Dallas Road
  • South Stacks Street
  • North Stacks Street
  • East Jefferson Street
  • Green Acres Street
  • Stephanie
  • West Jefferson Street
  • Sunset Boulevard
  • Joy Lane
  • Bluebonnet
  • West Denton
  • Green Acres Drive
  • East Marshall
  • FM 878
  • East Campus Road
  • FM 813
  • Willow Creek Road
  • Blue Bonnett
  • Wilson Road
  • FM 813 West
  • Bluebonnet Lane
  • East FM 813
  • East Lamar
  • South Main
  • Palmer View Drive
  • North Sherman Street
  • Lakeview
  • West Marshall Street
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  • Calloway Street
  • South Sherman Street
  • Oates Road
  • Dick Street
  • Casey Street
  • Cosey Street
  • Parker Hill Road
  • Orr Circle
  • Poinsetta Drive
  • East Canton
  • Craig Lane
  • Craig Road
  • Frances Lane
  • Cherry Point Drive
  • Waco Street
  • Virginia Drive
  • Palmyra Road
  • Beck Street
  • Green Acre Drive
  • Stephanie Drive
  • Meadowlark Drive
  • North Main
  • Hamblen Boulevard
  • Francis Street
  • Vegas Trail
  • Witts Campus Drive
  • West Canton Street
  • Elizabeth Drive
  • Halifax Circle
  • Hanover Avenue
  • Lucy Lane
  • East Denton
  • Palomino Drive
  • Lacellas Street
  • Lacellus Street

Names are listed as they appear on the printed map. Zoom into the product photos to find them.

The art of mapping a place

How This Map Was Made

Real places. Remarkable detail. Discover the layers that turn geographic data into a map of home.

  1. Aerial imagery of Mendon, Massachusetts, from the USDA NAIP program

    The view from above

    Aerial imagery reveals the character of the land: woodland, open fields, and the patterns of a place.

  2. USGS elevation data rendered as shaded relief of Mendon, Massachusetts

    The shape of the land

    Elevation data brings hills, valleys, and subtle changes in the landscape into view.

  3. Closeup of roads, waterways, and buildings on the Mendon, Massachusetts map

    The details of home

    Roads, waterways, and building footprints come together to make the map feel unmistakably local.

  4. Finished Mendon, Massachusetts map shown in a black frame

    Geography becomes art

    Considered color, shading, and typography bring the layers together in a map made for your wall.

Process illustrated with Mendon, Massachusetts. Aerial imagery: USDA NAIP. Terrain: USGS 3D Elevation Program. Map details and finished artwork: KNOWOL.

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