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Scurry is a town in southwestern Kaufman County, about 34 miles southeast of Dallas, and it was not officially incorporated until 2003.

The first settlers arrived in the Scurry area in the mid-1840s, and over the next twenty-five years a church-and-school farming community developed there.

The arrival of the Texas and Pacific Railway in the 1870s made Scurry a shipping point for area farmers.

Scurry is named for Confederate General William Read Scurry, who was killed at the Battle of Jenkins' Ferry in April 1864; postal service began in 1883, when the community had about fifty residents.

By 1914 Scurry had grown to about 400 people and had three churches, a school, and a dozen businesses, including a bank, a weekly newspaper, and a movie theater.

Scurry declined during the Great Depression and the decade after World War II, falling to about 250 residents by the mid-1950s.

The town rebounded late in the twentieth century, growing from 315 residents in 1990 to 600 in 2000, 681 in 2010, and 688 at the 2020 census.

Scurry covers about 1.9 square miles along State Highway 34, seven miles southwest of Kaufman, the county seat.

Scurry has a humid subtropical climate, with hot, humid summers and mild to cool winters.

Public education in Scurry is provided by the Scurry-Rosser Independent School District, whose three campuses also serve Rosser, Cottonwood, and Grays Prairie.