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Hebron is a small town in southeastern Denton County, about 21 miles southeast of Denton, with a small disconnected section across the line in Collin County.

Hebron traces its roots to the Bridges Settlement of 1843, part of the Peters Colony and among the earliest Anglo settlements in Denton County, and it was named for the biblical town of Hebron.

The community had a post office by 1890, and after the Red River, Texas and Southern Railway built through in 1902, Hebron supported three cotton gins at its peak.

Hebron took shape as a railroad townsite in the 1890s — it was also known for a time as Shepton — on land donated by the Blackland Townsite Company, a subsidiary of the St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad.

Hebron first incorporated in 1961 largely to keep Plano and Carrollton from annexing its territory, and Stanley Dozier served as the town's only mayor from 1961 to 1997.

Hebron's city limits once covered about 25 square miles, but over the past two decades the town has disannexed most of its land to Lewisville, The Colony, Carrollton, and Plano, shrinking to about 1.3 square miles.

Hebron's leaders originally intended for the town to disappear entirely as its neighbors absorbed it, though more recently elected officials have tried to reverse course and keep Hebron alive as an independent town.

Hebron's population was about 800 in the 2020 census, but Census Bureau estimates dropped it to roughly 224 by 2023 as the disannexations took effect.

In the 2000 census Hebron had just 271 households, yet its median household income was about $140,000 — extraordinarily high for such a tiny town.

The Air Park-Dallas Airport, a small public airstrip, was built inside the Hebron town limits in 1965.