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Hull is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in eastern Liberty County, about 13 miles northeast of Liberty, the county seat, and 43 miles northwest of Beaumont.

Hull was named for W. F. Hull, a railroad official, and it grew up as a station on the Beaumont, Sour Lake and Western Railway; its post office was established in 1908.

Sun Oil located the Hull salt dome in 1908, and in 1918 the Republic Production Company brought in the first producing well in the Hull oilfield at a depth of 5,000 feet, sparking rapid growth.

Hull field production jumped from about 330,000 barrels in 1918 to 8 million barrels in 1921, and by 1984 cumulative production from the field had passed 180 million barrels.

The Doucette Lumber Company was established at Hull in 1919, and Hull served as the railroad shipping point for the neighboring town of Daisetta, two miles to the south.

The wider Hull community was estimated at 1,000 to 1,200 residents from the 1920s through the late 1940s, and about 1,800 by 1980 and again in 2000.

As a census-designated place, Hull first appeared in the 2010 census with 669 residents, and its CDP population fell about 22 percent to 522 in the 2020 census.

The Hull CDP covers about 2.0 square miles, roughly 1 percent of it water.

Hull's children attend the Hull-Daisetta Independent School District, which was created under that name by a special act of the Texas Legislature in 1925, is based in Daisetta, and enrolled about 416 students in 2023-24.

Hull-Daisetta High School's Bobcats won the 1979 UIL Class 1A state football championship 28-18 over China Spring, remaining the only Liberty County team to win a Class 1A football state title.