Blood & Biohazard Cleanup Near Como Historic District Como, TX

Como is a town in southeastern Hopkins County in Northeast Texas, sitting on State Highway 11 about eight miles southeast of the county seat, Sulphur Springs.

The Como area was first settled around 1846, when Ferdinand Carroll established a teamsters camp on the Jefferson Road where it crossed East Caney Creek.

In 1894 the community was renamed Como at the suggestion of local settlers who had come from Como, Mississippi, partly to end confusion with the town of Carrollton near Dallas.

After a 1910 fire destroyed much of the town south of the railroad tracks, Como's residents laid out a new townsite on the north side of the tracks.

At its peak in 1914, Como had about 900 residents, two banks, an electric light plant, and its own weekly newspaper, the Como Headlight.

Como was not incorporated until 1932, and the town shrank sharply in the early 1930s when most of the local coal mines closed and its population fell to 392.

The 2020 census counted 728 people in Como, living in 215 households and 186 families.

Como's children attend the Como-Pickton Consolidated Independent School District, formed in 1965, whose teams are the Eagles and whose schools include Como-Pickton High School.