Biohazard Cleanup Near West Roxton Roxton, TX

Roxton's roots go back to Fort Shelton, a settlement Eli Shelton established on Cane Creek in 1837, and the community was known as Prairie Mount by 1853, when its first post office opened.

The post office took the name Roxton in 1869, and it is the second-oldest post office in Lamar County.

When the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway was extended through the area in 1887, the town shifted about half a mile to sit on the rail line connecting to Paris, the county seat some 18 miles northeast.

Roxton boomed to about 1,200 people by 1914, when it had some thirty businesses, including two banks, three cotton gins, and a telephone company.

The 2020 census counted 548 people in Roxton, living in 243 households, with a median age of 40.3 years.

Roxton lost its own school district in 2019, when Roxton Independent School District closed after the 2018-19 school year because of financial hardship and consolidated into the neighboring Chisum Independent School District.

All of Lamar County, including Roxton, lies in the service area of Paris Junior College.

Roxton sits on the Northeast Texas Trail, a roughly 130-mile hike-and-bike trail from Farmersville to New Boston that follows a railbanked former railroad right-of-way.

The city covers only about 0.87 square miles in southwestern Lamar County, at the junction of Farm to Market roads 137 and 38.