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Allison is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in northeastern Wheeler County, Texas, standing at the junction of Farm Roads 1046 and 277 in the eastern Texas Panhandle.

Allison was founded in 1929 as a stop on the Panhandle and Santa Fe Railway and was named for R. H. Allison, the railroad's general manager.

The Lone Star Townsite Company laid out the town, which quickly gained electricity and gas service, a post office in 1929, and three cotton gins within about a year.

Allison grew fast enough to absorb the nearby community of Zybach, and the Handbook of Texas notes it was said to have had as many as twenty-five bootleggers running stills during Prohibition.

The town reached its peak population of about 200 in 1941, just before the United States entered World War II.

During the 1970s Allison benefited from oil and natural gas development in the Panhandle-Hugoton field, the largest-volume natural gas field in the United States and the world's largest known source of helium; between 1973 and 1993 the field produced over 8 trillion cubic feet of gas.

Allison sits in the western edge of Tornado Alley with a semiarid climate, and on June 8, 1995 a violent, mile-wide F4 tornado narrowly missed the town and was documented by science teams from the first VORTEX tornado research project.

For years the Allison Independent School District served local students, but in 2003 it merged into the neighboring Fort Elliott Consolidated Independent School District; Wheeler County is assigned to the Clarendon College district for community college.

Allison was first listed as a census-designated place in the 2020 census, which counted 125 residents, about 94% of them white and non-Hispanic.