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KIAM, TEXAS

Texas Ghost Town
Polk County, East Texas

Highway 190
E of Livingston the county seat
65 Miles N of Beaumont
Population: Unk

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History on a Pinhead

Sometime around 1950 an early settler named the town for Edward Kiam of Houston. Kiam was a clothing retailer that had built a five-story brick building on Houston's Main Street in 1893.

The town had a post office from 1901 to 1927, when mail was routed to Ollie 7 miles east.
Kiam Building, Houston, Texas
Houston's Kiam Building
TE Photo
Polk County Texas 1907 postal map
1907 Polk County postal map showing Kiam near Tyler County line
(between Livingston & Woodville.
)
Courtesy Texas General Land Office.

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Kiam, Texas Nearby Towns:
Livingston the county seat
Woodville
See Polk County | Tyler County

East Texas

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