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Hallsburg is a small city in eastern McLennan County, sitting on Farm Road 3222 about eleven miles east-southeast of Waco and counted as part of the Waco metropolitan area.

Hallsburg was named for Dr. W. E. Hall, a Waco physician who in the 1880s bought more than 2,000 acres west of Mart, built a home, a cotton gin, and a blacksmith shop there, and donated land for a townsite.

The town took off in 1902, when the International-Great Northern Railroad laid its Marlin-to-Waco track through Hallsburg and a post office opened the same year.

Hallsburg stayed tiny for decades — just 30 residents were reported in 1910 and about 35 in the 1930s and 1940s.

Residents voted to incorporate Hallsburg in the late 1970s under a mayor-council government, and the population climbed to an estimated 528 by 1988.

By the early 1980s Hallsburg had grown enough to support its own independent school district.

Hallsburg counted 518 residents in the 2000 census — living in 192 households — then 507 in 2010 and 419 in 2020, with a median age of 43.4 years at the 2020 census.

Despite its small population, Hallsburg's city area covers roughly five square miles of rural McLennan County farmland.