In 1895, a post office bearing the name of the postmaster, James McIntosh Porter, was created.

There were two churches, a general store, a cotton gin, a drugstore, and an estimated fifty people living in Porter Springs by 1896.

Porter Springs had three churches and many businesses in the middle of the 1930s; fifty people were reportedly living there in 1936.

Early in the 1990s, Porter Springs was a dispersed rural town with a few homes, three churches, and a cemetery.

[2] Porter Springs is located at the intersection of Farm to Market Roads 2967 and 132, 10 mi (16 km) southwest of Crockett in western Houston County.