Josephine is a city in southeastern Collin County, Texas, with a small portion of its limits extending into neighboring Hunt County. It lies on the Blackland Prairies roughly 30 miles northeast of Dallas, about four miles east of Lavon Lake, a reservoir on the East Fork of the Trinity River. The community was established in 1888 along the St. Louis, Arkansas and Texas Railway and was incorporated in 1955, and it has retained its identity as a small Collin County town even as the Dallas–Fort Worth metro has expanded toward it. The city's population now stands near 10,000, a figure that reflects the arrival of new-home communities on former farmland around the original town center. That pattern gives Josephine a distinctive character: a compact railroad-era core and older rural properties sit alongside newer master-planned neighborhoods such as Magnolia Pointe. The result is a community that mixes the space and quiet of the county's eastern edge with the conveniences of suburban development. Josephine is served by Community Independent School District, a district established in 1947 that covers about 89 square miles and also serves the nearby towns of Lavon, Nevada, and Copeville. Farm Roads 6 and 1777 run through the city, and the U.S. Highway 380 corridor to the north connects residents to Farmersville, Princeton, and McKinney, while Rockwall and Wylie offer larger retail and employment centers to the south and west. Lavon Lake provides boating, fishing, and lakeside parks minutes from town, and the Sabine River headwaters and open prairie define the surrounding landscape. For residents, Josephine offers a position on the quieter edge of the Dallas region with straightforward access back into the metro.