The name Rexville is still used to identify a United States Geological Survey (USGS) quadrangle map.

A short distance southwest of the overpass, the pavement ends and Rexville Road becomes gravel-topped.

Originally called Reckville, the settlement was founded by German immigrants in the 1870s about 6 miles (9.7 km) southwest of Sealy.

In the 1880s, a spur line of the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway was built between Sealy and Eagle Lake.

By the 1950s there was nothing in the area but a triangulation station on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad and a few farms.