Blood & Biohazard Cleanup Near Downtown Lott Lott, TX

Lott was founded in 1890 when the San Antonio and Aransas Pass Railway was built through the area, and it was named in honor of Uriah Lott, the president of the railroad.

The Texas Townsite Company bought the Lott townsite land in 1889, and the community incorporated by a unanimous vote in November 1890 with an estimated population of more than 200.

Lott boomed quickly, reaching an estimated 1,200 residents by the end of the 1890s, and it chartered the First National Bank of Lott in 1903 and the Lott State Bank in 1909.

Lott became nationally known as a notorious speed trap on U.S. Highway 77, with traffic ticket revenue long described as the town's primary revenue source.

Lott lost its railroad service in 1967, when the Southern Pacific abandoned the section of track between Waco and Rosebud.

Lott had 644 residents at the 2020 census, living in 265 households, down from a peak of 1,093 people in 1920.

Lott sits on high ground between Little Deer Creek and Cottonwood Creek, both tributaries of the Brazos River, about 26 miles south of Waco on U.S. Route 77.

Lott is served by the Rosebud-Lott Independent School District, which it shares with neighboring Rosebud.