CORSICANA, a city of Texas, U.S.A., the county seat of Navarro county, 55 m. S. by E. of Dallas. It is on Federal high way 75, and is served by the Saint Louis Southwestern, the South ern Pacific, the Trinity and Brazos Valley, and the Texas Electric railways. The population in 1920 was 11,356 (29% negroes), and was 15,202 in 193o by the Federal census. There are over 45o pro ducing oil wells in the vicinity, and the county raises cotton (79, bales in 1926), grain, fruit, cattle and sheep. The city has cotton warehouses, cotton gins and compresses, cotton-seed oil and cotton mills, an oil refinery, foundries and machine shops, flour and grist mills, a steel plant and various other industries, with a total output in 1927 valued at $3,590,307. A State orphans' home and an Oddfellows' orphans' and widows' home are situated here. Corsicana was settled in 1848, incorporated as a village in 185o, and chartered as a city in 1871. The name was given by J. Antonio Navarro, to honour his father, who came from the isle of Corsica.