Ore City is a city in Upshur County, Texas, United States, located where US 259 and FM 450 converge, just four miles below the Lake O’ the Pines. The population was 1,108 at the 2020 census.
U.S. Route 259 is a north–south spur of U.S. Route 59 that runs for 250 miles through rural areas of northeastern Texas and southeastern Oklahoma. The highway's southern terminus is near Nacogdoches,
First reassurance marker heading north from the southern terminus in Nacogdoches, Texas
Northern terminus of US 259 in the Ouachita Mountains