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Coffee City is a small city in southeast Henderson County, Texas, United States. The population was 278 at the 2010 census, up from 193 at the 2000 census.

The city was developed after the construction of Lake Palestine in the early 1960s. As it is located on a sliver of Henderson County, a wet county, which extends eastward onto Lake Palestine and Texas State Highway 155, a number of liquor stores sprung up by the 1980s to capture business from residents of Tyler and neighboring Smith County (which at the time was dry). The importance of Coffee City declined in 2012 with the passage of legislation which allowed beer and wine sales in Tyler.

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Geography

Coffee City is located in southeastern Henderson County. It is on the west shore of Lake Palestine, a reservoir on the Neches River. The town limits extend into the center of the lake, which is the border with Smith and Cherokee counties. To the south, the town includes Ledbetter Bay and its two inlets Ledbetter Inlet and Highsaw Cove, while to the north the town extends beyond the Caney Bay inlet.

Texas Highway 155 crosses Ledbetter Bay as it passes through Coffee City, then crosses Lake Palestine into Smith County. The highway leads northeast 19 miles (31 km) to Tyler and south 6 miles (10 km) to Frankston. Athens, the Henderson county seat, is 29 miles (47 km) west of Coffee City by highway.

As of the 2010 census the town had a total area of 6.6 square miles (17.2 km), of which 1.9 square miles (5.0 km) were land and 4.7 square miles (12.2 km), or 70.96%, were water.

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