Browning, Texas

Browning is an unincorporated community in Smith County, [{Texas]], United States.

[1] Browning is on Farm to Market Road 2767 (known locally as Old Kilgore Highway) and the eastern edge of the Chapel Hill oilfield nine miles southeast of Winona.

The town was named for Isaiah Nicholas Browning (1827–1915), who, with his wife, Mary Ann Morrison (maiden; 1830–1904), was, beginning around 1850, among its earliest settlers.

During the 1890s the population plateaued at around fifty, and included a sawmill, a church, a district school, and a saloon.

This article about a location in Smith County, Texas is a stub.

Smith County map