Point Map
Point is a city in Rains County, Texas, United States. The population was 792 at the 2000 census. A July 1, 2008 U.S. Census Bureau estimate placed the population at 958.
Texas journalist Bob Bruce (1934–2009), affiliated for nearly four decades with the Abilene Reporter-News, was born on his grandmother's farm near Point but reared in other cities in Texas, New Mexico, and Kansas.
Point is located at 32°55?53?N 95°52?15?W / 32.93139°N 95.87083°W / 32.93139; -95.87083 (32.931512, -95.870957). It is situated at the junction of U.S. Highway 69 and Farm Roads 47 and 514 in northwestern Rains County, approximately eight miles northwest of Emory and sixty miles east of Dallas.
Nearby cities include Cumby, Quinlan, Campbell, Edgewood, Yantis.