Seven Points

Seven Points is on State Highway 274 twenty miles northwest of Athens in far northwestern Henderson County. The largely residential community grew up in the 1960s after the construction of nearby Cedar Creek Reservoir and was incorporated in the 1970s. The population was 224 in 1980. In 1990 the population was 723, and the community had spread into Kaufman County. By 1992 the community had a bank, a post office, and reported a population of 1,071. The population reached 1,145 in 2000.