Editing Red Oak, Texas (section)

==History==
One of the first settlers to this area was James E. Patton and his family in 1844.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/hjr05|title=RED OAK, TX|last=BROWN|first=SCOTT|date=2010-06-15|website=tshaonline.org|language=en|access-date=2019-11-30}}</ref> They settled in what is now known as Ovilla, Texas, located about two miles from Red Oak.<ref name=":0" /> Before Red Oak was given its name in 1849, it was known as Possum Trot due to the animal that lived there.<ref name=":0" /> The [[Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad]] reached Red Oak in 1884 and was completed in 1890,.<ref name=":0" /> providing service between Dallas and Waco.<ref name=":0" /> In 1949, Red Oak became an incorporated town of Ellis, County.<ref name=":0" /> In 2023, Google announced a 600 million dollar data center campus on a 375 acre land, right off Ovilla Road in Red Oak, making it the second data center to be built in Texas.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Swinhoe |first=Dan |date=September 1, 2023 |title=Google announces plans for Red Oak data center campus in Texas |url=https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/google-announces-plans-for-red-oak-data-center-campus-in-texas/ }}</ref>