Because it has not been on the official state highway map, the town's residents have had to accommodate would-be visitors by drawing lines on maps or improvising in other ways. The Peterses discovered their community was not on the state highway map earlier this year while driving around, admiring wildflowers. So Elroy Peters, who was raised in nearby Westoff, wrote a resolution and got backing from the two local churches, the Meyersville School Board and DeWitt County Commissioners Court. Among those supporting his efforts were Cobb and Ruth Egg Moore, owners of the Meyersville Food Market, who backed the resolution when it reached the school board and the church council. From there, Peters went to the Transportation Department in Austin, where an exception to the rules was made so the community would qualify.
Rules require a map site to be on a state- or federally numbered highway.
With the town now scheduled for the official map next year, residents expect tourism to increase because of the two historical churches, the museums and other attractions here. There's many things to look at here. We've had bus loads of people come to Meyersville. We have had people come from all over the world to visit our church. DeWitt County, famous for its annual crop of wildflowers, boasts that one of the two old Indianola trails passed through the townsite, along with the Old La Bahia Road from the Presidio in Goliad to Nacogdoches.