Seat: Groveton · Trinity, Apple Springs
Trinity County was organized in 1850 from parts of Houston County. The county seat moved several times in its early years — from Sumpter to Pennington to Trinity — before settling permanently at Groveton in 1882 to put the courthouse on the new Trinity & Sabine Railway. Records have been kept continuously since 1850, with the bulk preserved through the moves.
The county seat has held in Groveton since 1882, when the Trinity & Sabine Railway crossed the county and the courthouse followed the rails. The current 1914 courthouse on the Groveton square is the working seat today, with deed and probate records continuous since the county’s organization in 1850.
The eastern unit of the Davy Crockett National Forest covers much of western Trinity County. Established in 1936 on cutover longleaf land, the forest is still actively timbered under federal management and remains a defining feature of the county’s surface estate — with mineral interests across thousands of severed‑estate tracts.
Apple Springs grew up around a wagon-road spring east of Groveton in the 1860s and remains the easternmost community of any size in the county. The watershed line just east of town drains toward the Neches; the line just west of town drains toward the Trinity.
County seat: Groveton · Courthouse: 162 West 1st Street, Groveton, TX 75845
Address: 162 West 1st Street, P.O. Box 457, Groveton, TX 75845
Phone: (936) 642-1208
For sovereignty-to-current chain of title work in Trinity County, our title team pulls the deed records in person and reconciles them against the online index. Online date ranges vary by vendor and are not always complete — verify at the courthouse for closing-grade title work.
We’ll research the title at no cost and let you know what we find.