Scurry is a small town in southwestern Kaufman County, Texas, on State Highway 34 about four miles southwest of Kaufman, the county seat, and roughly 35 miles southeast of Dallas. Its roughly 690 residents live in a compact, mostly residential community of under two square miles, set in the gently rolling blackland prairie east of the Dallas metro area. The town's story begins with the railroad. The Texas and Pacific Railway reached the area in the 1870s, establishing a shipping point for area farmers, and the settlement that grew around it took the name Scurry — honoring Scurry Dean, a local man who died in the Civil War — when residents sought a post office in the early 1880s. For generations Scurry remained a small farm-town anchor, its population ebbing and flowing with the fortunes of rural Kaufman County. The town incorporated in 2003, formalizing a community that had long functioned as one. Today Scurry sits close enough to the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex to serve as a quiet residential base, yet far enough out to retain its rural small-town pace. The Scurry-Rosser Independent School District, based in town, anchors community life with its campuses serving Scurry and the surrounding Rosser area. Cedar Creek Lake, one of North Texas' most popular recreation lakes, lies a short drive to the southeast, bringing boating, fishing, and lakeside communities within easy reach. Kaufman provides county services and shopping minutes to the northeast, while the retail and employment centers of Mesquite, Forney, and Dallas are reached via nearby highways. Who Scurry suits: it appeals to those seeking small-town or semi-rural living with a manageable commute toward Dallas and Kaufman, a local school district, and quick access to Cedar Creek Lake.