Mount Enterprise is a city in Rusk County, Texas, United States.

The town owes its existence to the presence of promising iron ore in the area.

His factory made wagons, buggies, furniture, plows, caskets, and a patented churn.

He launched a chain of stores to sell these products, and more, operating out of Mount Enterprise.

In 1880 the town had three sawmills, a hotel, two cotton gins, a school, three churches, and a population of 150.

The railroad was abandoned in 1934, but by 1939 the town had incorporated and still had a number of businesses, a bank, a post office, a newspaper, and a population of 920.

After 1940 the population gradually declined to 485 in 1982, when the town had a bank, a post office, and fifteen businesses.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 1.5 square miles (3.8 km2), all land.