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Damon is an unincorporated census-designated place in northwestern Brazoria County on State Highway 36, about twenty miles south of Rosenberg.

The west side of Damon sits atop Damon Mound, the surface expression of a salt dome that rises more than 140 feet above the flat Gulf Coast plain — the highest point in all of Brazoria County.

Long before European settlement, the Karankawa people lived on Damon Mound; arrowheads, burial grounds, broken pottery, and stone tools have all been found there.

The community is named for Samuel Damon, who arrived in Texas from Massachusetts in 1831, served in the Texas Revolution as a wagonmaster at the Siege of Bexar, and worked as a brickmaker for fifty years.

The settlement was first called Damon Mound and had about 100 inhabitants by 1890, when cattle ranching dominated the local economy; the post office reopened in 1895 under the shortened name Damon.

A Baptist church opened in Damon in 1896, a Catholic church followed in 1925, and a railroad spur was built from Rosenberg in 1918 to haul away the mound's quarried limestone and sulphur.

Oil trapped around the salt dome made Damon a boomtown: by 1924, eighty-five wells on the mound had produced five million barrels of oil, and production hit 224,000 barrels in 1930 alone.

Damon's population held near 400 from the 1940s through the 1980s, then counted 535 residents in 207 households in the 2000 Census and 552 in 2010.

The 2020 Census counted 436 residents in Damon, spread across about 1.4 square miles of coastal prairie.

Damon has its own small school district, Damon ISD, for elementary students, and it partners with the Needville Independent School District so local teenagers can attend high school.