Woodloch, Texas: A Brief History and Overview


By: Laurie E. Jasinski

Published: October 5, 2005

Updated: March 16, 2018

Woodloch is located north of State Highway 242 at Needham Road about thirty miles north of Houston and eight miles southeast of Conroe in south central Montgomery County. By the mid-1970s this residential development on the West Fork of the San Jacinto River, named for the surrounding wooded region, had incorporated. Woodloch had a population of 351 in 1980. That figure declined to 291 in 1990 and 247 in 2000. In 2010 the population was 207. Many residents commute to work in Houston.

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Laurie E. Jasinski, “Woodloch, TX,” Handbook of Texas Online, accessed May 19, 2026, https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/woodloch-tx.

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October 5, 2005
March 16, 2018