The following is a summary of acts which authorized boundary changes for
Houston County.
- Acts of 1885, Chapter 69, changed the boundary between Dickson and Houston Counties to include all of the land of Joel N. Boze in Houston County.
- Acts of 1909, Chapter 57, placed all the land of L. J. Browning in Dickson County, taking a part of it from Houston County.
- Private Acts of 1937, Chapter 403, changed the boundaries between Houston and Dickson Counties, by placing the nineteen acre tract of J. M. Cooksey in the Tenth Civil District of Dickson County and the one-hundred-fifty acre tract belonging to J. R. Cooksey, Jr. in the Sixth Civil District of Houston County.