Fentress is an unincorporated community in Caldwell County, Texas, United States.

[citation needed] Founded as Riverside in the later 1800s around a church, the community was renamed to Fentress in 1982.

[3] After the death of President George H. W. Bush, skydivers above Fentress made the number 41 in the sky as a tribute to him.

[3] A one-room school building that offered instruction for three months each year opened in 1895.

In 1922, a two-story, five-classroom facility with an auditorium was opened to replace the original building, but it was shut down in the 1940s with a merger into the Prairie Lea Independent School District, which continues to serve the community.