Oakhurst is a small, unincorporated community in San Jacinto County, Texas, in the Piney Woods of East Texas between the Sam Houston National Forest and Lake Livingston. Its setting is heavily wooded and rural, and its history is tied to one of Texas's most famous figures: the area includes the site of Raven Hill, a plantation associated with Sam Houston, for whom the nearby national forest is named. With a population of roughly 150 at the 2020 census, Oakhurst is a genuinely small place, more a rural crossroads and dispersed settlement than a town with a commercial center. The community incorporated briefly in the 1980s before returning to unincorporated status, and its residents are spread across wooded lots and country roads rather than concentrated in a traditional downtown. The Sam Houston National Forest, one of only four national forests in Texas, lies immediately to the west and shapes the community's identity. The forest's more than 160,000 acres of pine and hardwood provide recreation, wildlife habitat, and a defining green backdrop, while Lake Livingston, one of the state's largest reservoirs, lies to the east and anchors boating, fishing, and lake-oriented recreation for the broader region. Oakhurst's character is quiet and deliberately rural. Homes sit among pines on larger lots, and the pace of life follows the seasons of the forest and the lake. The community's schools, part of the Coldspring-Oakhurst Consolidated Independent School District, connect it to the nearby county seat of Coldspring, and U.S. Highway 190 provides the main route to Livingston and Huntsville. For those seeking a piney-woods retreat within reach of lake recreation and forest trails, Oakhurst offers a low-density, nature-centered way of life in a part of Texas that remains lightly developed.