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Splendora is a city in eastern Montgomery County, Texas, at the junction of U.S. Highway 59 and Farm Road 2090, about six miles north of New Caney.

Splendora began in the late 1800s as Cox's Switch, a narrow-gauge spur of the Houston, East and West Texas Railway promoted by Charles Cox to haul cross ties and lumber, and W. W. Burrow built its first general store in 1883.

In 1896, at Charles Cox's suggestion, the town's first postmaster, Milton Z. King, renamed the town Splendora in honor of the 'splendor of its floral environment.'

Splendora's nickname, 'The Switch,' recalls its railroad-switch origins as Cox's Switch.

Splendora grew slowly for decades — it had only about 100 residents in 1925 — and it became an independent school district in the 1940s.

The town of Splendora was incorporated in December 1966.

Splendora had a population of 1,683 at the 2020 census, up from 1,275 in 2000.

Splendora is served by the Splendora Independent School District, which grew out of a one-room school held in the Greenleaf Church building in 1895.

Long a quiet rural town, Splendora is now in the path of Houston's northward growth, with developers clearing hundreds of acres west of U.S. 59 for new subdivisions that could multiply the city's population several times over.