Biohazard and Pathogen Disinfection in Diboll, TX

Diboll was founded in 1894 in the piney woods of southern Angelina County when Thomas Lewis Latane Temple built a sawmill on the Houston, East and West Texas Railway.

Diboll is named for J. C. Diboll, the local timberman who sold Temple the 7,000 acres of pine timberland where the town began.

Diboll's Southern Pine Lumber Company began operating in June 1894, and by 1908 Temple had added a second sawmill and enlarged his timber holdings to more than 209,000 acres.

Diboll grew up as a classic company town — most of its homes were built and owned by the lumber company and rented to employees.

Diboll's first school opened in 1894, the year the town was founded, and its first post office opened in 1897.

Diboll's economy stayed afloat during the Great Depression after Southern Pine sold about 100,000 acres of its holdings to the United States government for less than three dollars an acre.

Diboll was transformed after 1948 by Arthur Temple, Jr., who sold the company-owned houses to residents at bargain prices, closed the company commissary, and gave the town a medical clinic, improved streets, and a new fire station — and Diboll's schools were among the first in Texas to integrate.

Diboll did not incorporate as a city until 1962, nearly seventy years after its founding.

Diboll became the corporate headquarters of Temple-Eastex in 1973, one of the nation's largest forest-products companies and a direct descendant of the old Southern Pine Lumber Company.

Diboll had 4,457 residents and 1,392 households in the 2020 census, and the town's T.L.L. Temple Memorial Library honors its founder.