Blooming Grove TX
What is going on in Blooming Grove, and what has gone on.
Local businesses
Going on now
Lately in Blooming Grove
From the town's Facebook page.
What has gone on
Getting things done in Blooming Grove
City Hall
Address200 South Fordyce Street, Blooming Grove, TX 76626
MailingPO Box 237, Blooming Grove, TX 76626-0237TML City Officials Directory
Phone(903) 695-2711
HoursMonday–Friday, 8AM–4PM
Municipal CourtMonday–Thursday, 8AM–3PM
Elected officialsMayor Ashley Mahone. Mayor Pro-Tem Bill Carroll. Council Members Renee Watson, Haley Ehly, Sarah Southard and Jody Gantt. The city's council page →the council's minutes, 1 June 2026
City staffCity Secretary Carrie Sweeney. Court Clerk Deena Smith. Utility Superintendent Rory Evans. Police Chief T.C. Lawhon.the council's minutes, 1 June 2026
Meetings and records
City Council: First Monday of the month, 6:30 p.m., at City Hall, 200 S. Fordyce.
City CouncilFirst Monday of the month, 6:30 p.m., at City Hall, 200 S. Fordyce.City of Blooming Grove — Council
Agendas and minutesPosted on the city's calendar of events. Minutes are usually available about a month after the meeting. Read the minutes →City of Blooming Grove — Meeting Agendas & Minutes
Water and utilities
Billing: Bills are mailed near the last business day of the month and are due by the 16th.
BillingBills are mailed near the last business day of the month and are due by the 16th.
Late fees$10 after the due date. A further $40 cut-off list fee if unpaid by 4:00 PM on the 21st.
New serviceCity Hall, (903) 695-2711
Rate scheduleNot published online. The city's page points to Ordinance No. 386 rather than printing a schedule. Call City Hall at (903) 695-2711.
Fire and emergency
EmergencyCall 911.
Non-emergencyBlooming Grove Volunteer Fire Department, (903) 695-2900
MailingP.O. Box 364, Blooming Grove, TX 76626
DepartmentBlooming Grove Volunteer Fire Department Station and directions →
Post office
Address: 100 S Fordyce St, Blooming Grove, TX 76626 — (903) 695-2212
Address100 S Fordyce St, Blooming Grove, TX 76626 — (903) 695-2212
Window hoursMonday–Friday 8:15–12:15 and 1:15–3:15 · Saturday 8:30–10:30
PO box lobbyOpen 24 hours, Monday–Saturday
The town
Incorporated: 1890
Community information last reviewed 17 September 2026.
For official city business: ci.blooming-grove.tx.us.
The schools
Blooming Grove ISD
Academic calendar →Athletics and schedules →Enrollment and registration →Watch games live on NFHS Network (subscription) →
Three campuses — elementary, junior high and high school.
Churches
Six congregations.
Central Baptist Church
Service times
SundayBible study 9:30am, worship 10:30am, evening 6:00pm
WednesdayDinner 6:00pm, Bible study 6:30pm
First Baptist Church
Service times
SundaySunday School 9:30am, worship 10:30am
WednesdayYouth 3:30pm, children 4:30pm, adults 6:30pm
Community assets
The library, the park, the community garden, and the town's clubs and societies.
Blooming Grove Community Library
Call for hours.
The library published this town's newspaper from 2009 to 2012 and is the most-mentioned institution in the whole run.
Blooming Grove City Park
Blooming Grove Community Garden
Blooming Grove Lions Club
Blooming Grove's first website, 2006 to 2014
Blooming Grove Historical Society
No contact published.
At 201 S Fordyce.
Blooming Grove's first website, 2006 to 2014, and the newsletter run
Ruth Edmunson Ramsey Scholarship Fund
A scholarship fund for Blooming Grove graduates, established in memory of Mrs Ruth Edmunson Ramsey.
More
The May 2010 newspaper reported it had sent eleven graduates to college by then.
Blooming Grove Lodge No. 497, A.F. & A.M.
110 Fordyce Street · 903-872-5939
Hours
Stated meetingSecond Tuesday of the month, 7:30 p.m.
Chartered in 1878, on the 1920 history of Corsicana Lodge No. 174.
More
The historical marker in town gives 1888, which is the year Blooming Grove moved to the rail line.
The year in Blooming Grove
Blooming Grove Bloomsspring — festival and chili cook-off
Graduationlate May
Community-wide garage saleearly June, two days
Independence Day Parade4 July, 10:30 a.m., down Fordyce
Vendors in the Parkearly July, city park
Movie in the Parkafter dark, summer — and sometimes autumn
Homecomingautumn, at the school
Fall Festivalautumn
Christmas on FordyceDecember
From the city council minutes and The Community News, 2009–2012.
From the record
Field Note 014City limit
Field Note 013The face at Fair Park
Field Note 012Her name on the map
Field Note 009Kildee
Field Note 008The forks of the creek
Field Note 006The bank on Fordyce Street
Field Note 005The country boy who saw the rifle first
Field Note 004The best, and my true friend
Field Note 003The teacher who kept the pictures
Field Note 001A town that kept starting newspapers
By Tim Campbell
Tales From the Grove
46 pieces on the town's history and photographs, archived here with his permission.
Tom Moore · Blooming Grove
DiggyDog
Tall tales, poems and cowboy comedy by Tom Moore of Digginchy Books, written for the Blooming Grove Community News.
Tom Moore · DiggyDog
Homer Spurlock & Doc Shotgun
The Case of the Wild Man of Blooming Grove, a cowboy detective serial by Tom Moore, from the Blooming Grove Community News, 2009 to 2011.
Civic records: Mayors since 1936 · Postmasters, 1871–2014 · Fordyce Street, 1966 →Who was in business here: 44 names →
Historical markers here: Blooming Grove School · Blooming Grove United Methodist Church · City of Blooming Grove · Dresden Cemetery · Dresden United Methodist Church · Site of University Training School - Central Texas College · White Church Cemetery
All 171 markers in Navarro County and Hubbard, on a map →
The first website, 2006–2014
220 pages, as it was
The Community News, 2009–2012
Twenty-five issues, as printed
The second website, 2014–2016
Its front page, as captured
Community posts, 2014–2016
63 posts, as they happened
Blooming Grove's earlier websites and its community newspaper, archived as they were.
Blooming Grove is one of six towns on Blackland TX, the record of five small towns in Navarro County and one across the Hill County line, and of the crossroads between them.
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