Baylor County Museum

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Meteorologist Jason Cooley

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Union Station. From a calendar (2011) for sale at the museum.

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BAYLOR COUNTY HERITAGE CALENDAR 2011

03/18/2026

Thank you Texas Inspiration for this write-up on Bomarton! Very well done!

Out on the wide-open plains of Baylor County sits one of Texas’s quietest fading towns — Bomarton.

Bomarton was founded in 1906 when the Wichita Valley Railroad pushed its line between Seymour and Abilene. Like many railroad towns across Texas, it sprang up almost overnight.

A post office opened inside Tom McClure’s store, more businesses followed, and soon the little town had churches, cotton gins, and a lively downtown. By the 1920s, Bomarton had become a busy gathering place for surrounding farms and ranches.

Saturday markets brought crowds into town. Baseball games filled the afternoons. Cotton wagons rolled in from miles away to the local gins.

By 1930, around 600 people called Bomarton home.
But like so many small railroad towns, the good times didn’t last.
After World War II, cotton production declined and the railroad slowly lost its importance. Families moved away in search of work, businesses closed, and the population steadily dropped.
By 1980, fewer than 30 residents remained.

Today, Bomarton sits quietly along U.S. Highway 277 near the Knox County line. A few scattered homes remain, along with the striking red-brick St. John Catholic Church — one of the last reminders of the town’s early days.

It’s a peaceful place now, where the wind moves across the North Texas plains and the echoes of a once-busy railroad town still linger.
Texas is full of places like Bomarton — small towns that once thrived, slowly fading but never completely forgotten.

Have you ever heard of Bomarton, Texas?

03/18/2026