PILOT GROVE, TX PILOT GROVE, TEXAS. Pilot Grove is on Farm Road
121 sixteen miles southeast of Sherman in southeastern Grayson
County. It was settled about 1850 and was originally called
Lickskillet. It acquired its present name, derived from the
nearby Pilot Grove Ranch of James P. Dumas, when the post office
opened in 1850. In addition to Dumas, early settlers included
Buford Clement, Frank Stinnett, and Dr. William C. Holmes. The
community grew slowly through the 1880s and had a population of
thirty, a school, a cotton gin, a general store, and three
churches by 1885. The population reached 193 by 1904. The post
office closed that year, but the population remained about the
same through the mid-1930s, when the town had three businesses.
Pilot Grove declined to 125 persons, one business, a school, and
three churches by the late 1940s. The population stayed stable
through the mid-1960s, but from 1976 to 1990 it was recorded as
seventy-five, and no rated businesses or other institutions were
reported. The pop