China Spring is a census-designated place in northwestern McLennan County, Texas, United States.
By the early 1880s, the community had 200 residents with five steam cotton gins and gristmills, three general stores and a Methodist church.
China Spring became the focus of a rural school district in the late 1920s.
Two churches, a school, and many houses marked the community on topographic maps of the mid-1970s.
[citation needed] China Spring Independent School District serves area students.