"409" . . . "-5" . "-6" . "Hamshire is an unincorporated community in western Jefferson County, Texas, United States. It is part of the Beaumont\u2013Port Arthur Metropolitan Statistical Area and located on State Highway 124 twenty miles southwest of Beaumont. It was probably named for Lovan Hamshire, who developed the land as early as the 1870s. Hamshire was on the Gulf and Interstate Railway with a post office being established there in 1897. A townsite plat was filed in 1911 by Theodore F. Koch."@en . . "Hamshire, Texas"@en . . "6.096"^^ . .