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Rhome began as Prairie Point, a settlement established in the late 1850s by a group of Missourians at the crossroads of two stagecoach lines in southeastern Wise County.

Settler Samuel Sheets began laying out and selling Prairie Point town lots in 1858, the same year its post office opened, and by the early 1860s it was the second largest settlement in Wise County.

Prairie Point was virtually deserted by 1863, and when the Fort Worth and Denver City Railway laid tracks nearby in 1882, the new rail settlement that replaced it was named Rhome in 1883.

Rhome honors Col. Byron Crandall Rhome, a prominent local rancher credited with bringing the first Hereford cattle to Wise County.

One of Rhome's two early flour mills was the first roller mill built in Wise County — and possibly the first roller mill in all of Texas.

Highway 81 was built through Rhome in 1939, and the town incorporated in 1942.

Rhome's population fluctuated between 400 and 600 from 1925 to 1980 and stood at just 551 in 2000, before Fort Worth's growth turned it into a commuter community.

Rhome counted 1,522 residents in the 2010 census and 1,641 in the 2020 census — roughly triple its population at the turn of the century.

Rhome sits on U.S. Highway 287/81, twelve miles southeast of Decatur, the Wise County seat.

Census Bureau survey estimates in the early 2020s put Rhome's median household income at around $100,000, unusually high for a town of its size and a sign of its shift into an affluent Fort Worth exurb.