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Red Oak

Red Oak is a city in Ellis County, Texas, United States.

Red Oak
Red Oak · Dietmar Rabich
The place

Red Oak is a city in Ellis County, Texas, United States. It is part of the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex. As of the 2020 census, Red Oak had a population of 14,222, increasing to an estimated 20,394 in 2025.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Red Oak

2 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Texas State Technical College System

    Texas State Technical College is a public technical college with its main campus in Waco, Texas. TSTC is the State of Texas's only public multicampus technical college, offering associate degrees and certificates in technical skills and trades on 11 campuses throughout the state.

    4 km · Public community college near Waco · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Cold War Air Museum

    The Cold War Air Museum was an aviation museum located at the Lancaster Regional Airport in Lancaster, Texas focused on the Cold War and Eastern Bloc aircraft.

    8.9 km · aviation museum in Lancaster, Texas · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Red Oak

Airports
Dallas Love Field (DAL), 39 km · Dallas Fort Worth (DFW), 51 km · Austin Bergstrom (AUS), 271 km
Stations
Lancaster Airport, 8.9 km
  • Dallas-Fort Worth → Red Oak
    48 km · quickest by road, 1h 11m · $5–7
  • Houston → Red Oak
    336 km · quickest by road, 5h 9m · $29–40
  • Austin → Red Oak
    266 km · quickest by road, 3h 54m · $23–31
  • From anywhere
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Red Oak

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Red Oak. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    BacalarMX

    9 ways of moving, 41 sources

    1,750 km
  2. 02
    Caye CaulkerBZ

    9 ways of moving, 42 sources

    1,860 km
  3. 03
    FloresGT

    9 ways of moving, 32 sources

    1,864 km
  4. 04
    Fire IslandUS

    10 ways of moving, 18 sources

    2,285 km
  5. 05
    Isla de OmetepeNI

    12 ways of moving, 49 sources

    2,598 km

If you know how people move in Red Oak – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Red Oak

Red Oak is 31 km from Dallas, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.