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Praha

Ghost town · Fayette County, Texas

Flatonia quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1965, 1:24,000)
Flatonia quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1965, 1:24,000) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Praha is a ghost town in Fayette County, Texas, recorded as unincorporated community in Fayette County, Texas, United States. It is one of 3 former communities in Fayette County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 44th among the 165 Texas counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Praha as a historical populated place: the name is no longer in official use for a community, whether the settlement was abandoned, absorbed into a neighbouring town or renamed. The recorded location is 29.6700° N, 97.0669° W.

In old newspapers

The earliest digitized newspaper pages printed in Texas before 1931 that mention “Praha”, from the Library of Congress. A page may use the name for something else; open it to read the context. 130 pages in all.

Key facts

Elevation397 ft
Nearest living townFlatonia, TX
Distance to it2.7 miles
Coordinates29.67000, -97.06690

Open the location on a map

Then and now

Drag the slider: the old USGS map on the left, the same ground from the air today on the right. Both cover the same 1.9-mile square centred on the recorded location.

Praha today, aerial view
Flatonia quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1965, 1:24,000)

Left: Flatonia quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1965, 1:24,000), U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection. Right: The same ground today: NAIP aerial imagery, USDA Farm Service Agency, National Agriculture Imagery Program (via USGS). Both public domain.

What's there now

Praha is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Flatonia, TX (population 1,741), about 2.7 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 397 feet above sea level. The aerial view above shows what covers the ground today. Much of the land around former townsites is private; check access before you visit.

Images

Welcome sign in Prague, Texas, partially in Czech (vítáme vás = [we] welcome [you]; matička Praha = ~mother Prague)
Welcome sign in Prague, Texas, partially in Czech (vítáme vás = [we] welcome [you]; matička Praha = ~mother Prague) · The original uploader was Aida at Czech Wikipedia. / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0

Nearby places

Questions

Where is Praha?

Praha is in Fayette County, Texas, at 29.6700, -97.0669.

How many ghost towns are in Fayette County?

Fayette County, Texas has 3 ghost towns on record at Wayfarrow.

Sources and licences

Facts marked "approximately" carry an uncertain date in the source. Text on this page is generated from the sources above; no encyclopedia prose is copied. Last updated 2026-11-06.