Biohazard Cleanup Near Edom Historic District Edom, TX

Edom is a small city in southeast Van Zandt County, Texas, and is the third oldest town in the county.

Edom was first established in 1849, several miles from its present site, and was organized as a post office called Hamburg in 1852.

In 1855 the post office moved and was renamed Edom, taking the name given to Esau in the Book of Genesis.

Railroad service never reached Edom, yet the farming town held on; by 1914 it had a cotton gin and four general stores.

Edom had its own independent school district until 1966, when it was consolidated with the Van school district, and the community incorporated as a city that same year.

Edom had 339 residents at the 2020 census, and its population has stayed between roughly 200 and 375 for a century.

Edom lost its post office in 1976, and the frontier-era Red Hill Cemetery survives at or near the old townsite.

The city sits at the crossing of Farm Roads 279, 314, and 2339, about sixteen miles southeast of Canton, the Van Zandt County seat.