Kerens is a city in Navarro County, Texas, United States. The population was 1,505 at the 2020 census. Kerens was established in 1881 whe…Kerens is a city in Navarro County, Texas, United States. The population was 1,505 at the 2020 census. Kerens was established in 1881 when the St. Louis Southwestern Railway of Texas was built through the county, according to the Texas Handbook of History, and was named for Judge Richard C. Kerens of St. Louis. The railroad bypassed the nearby settlement of Wadeville, and within a short time all of the businesses from Wadeville moved to the new town. By the mid-1890s, the handbook said, the town had three cotton gin-mills, four grocery stores, two hotels, two drug stores, a wagonmaker, and a weekly newspaper named the Navarro Blade.
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