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Kosse is a town in southwestern Limestone County, Texas, at the junction of State Highways 7 and 14, and it calls itself "A Little Town with a Big Heart."

Settlers built homes near Duck Creek in the mid-1840s and ran a stage stop serving the Franklin-to-Springfield and Waco-to-Marlin stage routes.

Kosse was named for Theodore Kosse, the chief engineer of the Houston and Texas Central Railway who surveyed the townsite, and in 1869 the community became the end of that railroad's line.

For a few months in late 1870 and early 1871, Kosse was the northernmost terminus of the Houston and Texas Central Railway and boomed briefly, but it shrank once the tracks were extended north to Groesbeck.

The town of Kosse was chartered in 1871, its first census in 1880 counted 476 residents, and by 1928 its population had reached about 1,500.

A fire on December 22, 1895, destroyed seven brick buildings in Kosse and the merchandise of seventeen firms, causing about $75,000 in damage.

Kosse organized its own independent school district in 1893, but its schools were consolidated into the Groesbeck Independent School District in 1968.

The historic Ebenezer Cemetery, established in 1865, stands near Kosse.

As of the 2020 census, Kosse had a population of 458, and in 2000 the census counted 497 people living in 205 households.