Crime Scene and Trauma Cleanup in Bloomburg, TX

Bloomburg is a small town in eastern Cass County, Texas, about six miles east of Atlanta and less than half a mile from the Arkansas state line.

Settlement around Bloomburg began before the Civil War, but the community only began to develop when the Texarkana and Fort Smith Railway was built through the area in 1895.

When Bloomburg's post office opened in 1896, the town was named for an official of the railroad company.

From 1898 until it was abandoned in 1920, the Texas, Arkansas and Louisiana Railway linked Bloomburg to the Texas and Pacific Railway.

Bloomburg incorporated in 1911, and by 1914 it had a small bank, a hotel, a restaurant, several stores, and an estimated 600 residents.

The town shrank over the twentieth century, falling to 231 residents by 1970 before partly recovering in later decades.

The 2020 census counted 321 people in Bloomburg, living in 169 households and 107 families.

Bloomburg covers about one square mile of Piney Woods country in far northeastern Texas.

Every year on the first Saturday in November, Bloomburg hosts the Cullen Baker Country Fair — a family festival with a parade, craft and food booths, a pageant, and a rodeo — named for the outlaw Cullen Baker.