Biohazard Cleanup Near Ector Historic District Ector, TX

Ector is a small city in central Fannin County, at the intersection of U.S. Highway 82 and Farm Road 898, about six miles west of the county seat of Bonham.

The community began in the late nineteenth century when farmers settled near Caney Creek, and it was originally called Victor's Station.

When postal authorities told residents that another Texas town already used the name Victor's Station, they renamed the community for Ector Owens, one of the area's pioneer settlers, and postal service began in 1886.

The Texas and Pacific Railway reached Ector in 1892, turning it into a shipping point for area farmers.

By 1904 Ector had 218 residents served by a church, a school, and a bank, and by 1926 its population had reached 451 with twenty-five businesses.

The 2020 census counted 737 residents in Ector — the highest population in its history — living in 261 households.

Ector covers just 1.17 square miles, all of it land, with State Highway 56 running through the center of town toward Bonham and Savoy.

The city is served by the Ector Independent School District, and many residents commute to jobs in Sherman, about twenty miles west, or Denison, about twenty-two miles northwest.

In 2017 a $320 million doomsday resort and underground bunker development called Trident Lakes was under construction near Ector, but by 2018 its owner was under investigation for money laundering and investors were calling the project a scam.