Stella is a ghost town in western Fayette County, Texas.
The community was located eight miles southwest of West Point.
A store and a voting precinct had been established by 1900 for the scattered populace.
Depletion of the rocky and sandy soils followed, and farmland became unimproved pasture covered with post oak.
[1] During the 1980s oil drilling activity occurred and people used the area as a source for rock and gravel.