One June 20, 1858, the Rush Creek Post Office was authorized and opened in Jim Person's store which  was situated in the grove of postoak trees where Will Sidney Price has his home on State Highway 31, three miles west of Kerens.  It was named Rush Creek for the small stream that runs about one hundred yards north of its original location.  It was the second post office authorized for the eastern half of Navarro County, the first was Chatfield, and opened about four years earlier.  The following is the chronological order of the postmasters to serve this office.

In the one-hundred-four years that the post office has served this area it has been in three location; Rush Creek, thirteen years; Wadeville, eleven years, and Kerens, eighty years.  Three men served postmaster as Rush Creek, three at Wadeville, and sixteen have served at Kerens.