Tioga is a town in the southwestern corner of Grayson County, Texas, positioned along U.S. Route 377 about six miles north of Pilot Point and roughly thirty miles southwest of Sherman. The community was founded in 1881 at a junction of the Texas and Pacific and Missouri, Kansas and Texas railroads, and grew as a small agricultural trade center for the surrounding countryside. In 1882, the town's first building was a grocery store and its first schoolhouse was a one-room frame structure. At the 2020 census, Tioga had a population of 1,142. The town is best known as the hometown of Gene Autry, the singing cowboy of radio and screen, who was born near Tioga in 1907 and raised in the area; the town proudly claims him among its native sons along with figures such as State Senator Olen R. VanZandt. By the 1930s, Tioga's main street held a full complement of groceries, garages, hotels, cafes, and other businesses serving the farm trade. The surrounding landscape is defined by rolling grassland, ranchland, and scattered farms. Today Tioga sits within the Sherman–Denison metropolitan area, roughly an hour's drive north of Dallas, and near the shores of Ray Roberts Lake, a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers reservoir whose state park lies just south of town. Its position along U.S. 377 keeps commuters within reach of Pilot Point, Denton, and the Sherman–Denison corridor. The town retains a small-town, rural character while benefiting from its proximity to the lake's recreational resources and the growing communities of the northern Metroplex.