Biohazard and Pathogen Disinfection in Ralls, TX

Ralls was laid out in July 1911 by John Robinson Ralls, working with W. E. McLaughlin, after Ralls traded a store in Oklahoma for some 10,000 acres of Crosby County land.

Ralls personally financed the relocation of businesses from nearby Emma — a town the railroad had bypassed — and gave away and sold homesites to populate his new town, which incorporated about ten years later with just 113 residents.

Ralls is the largest city in Crosby County, even though Crosbyton is the county seat, and it sits about thirty miles east of Lubbock at the junction of U.S. Highways 62 and 82 and State Highway 207.

Ralls had a population of 1,665 at the 2020 census, living in 614 households — down from a peak of 2,422 residents in 1980 — and about 64.4% of its residents were Hispanic or Latino in 2020.

Ralls is a farming town on the level plains of the Llano Estacado at an elevation of about 3,107 feet, surrounded by productive farmland growing cotton and grains, with lesser amounts of soybeans, sunflower seed, and vegetables.

Ralls lies just south of Blanco Canyon, where Coronado's expedition is believed to have camped in 1541, and about fourteen miles north of the Caprock Escarpment, the dramatic break between the Llano Estacado and the Rolling Plains.

Ralls is part of the Lubbock metropolitan statistical area despite its rural character — the 2020 census classified 100% of its residents as living in rural areas.

Ralls students are served by the Ralls Independent School District.

Ralls is the birthplace of two country music figures: Billy Walker, a longtime member of the Grand Ole Opry, and Hal Bynum, the songwriter behind songs recorded by Kenny Rogers and others.