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Proctor is an unincorporated community in eastern Comanche County, situated along U.S. Highway 377 approximately twelve miles northeast of Comanche.

Thomas O. Moore established the Proctor community in 1872, and it was named for his business partner, Alexander Watson Proctor.

In the early 1890s the settlement moved to its present site to sit on the route of the Fort Worth and Rio Grande Railroad, where it was briefly known as Camden before the Proctor name was restored.

By 1915 Proctor was a railroad shipping center with its own bank, a newspaper, two cotton gins, a hotel, and a population of about 300.

Proctor's own school once served over 400 students before it was consolidated with the Comanche schools after World War II, and public education in the community is still provided by the Comanche Independent School District.

Proctor began to decline around 1930, after U.S. Highway 377 was paved and its route passed north of town.

Proctor first appeared as a census-designated place in the 2020 census, which counted just 93 residents.

Although unincorporated, Proctor keeps its own post office with ZIP code 76468, and its name lives on in nearby Proctor Lake, a reservoir on the Leon River.