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Halls Bluff Town

Ghost town · Houston County, Texas

Halls Bluff quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1964, 1:24,000)
Halls Bluff quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1964, 1:24,000) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Halls Bluff Town is a ghost town in Houston County, Texas. It is one of 8 former communities in Houston County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 8th among the 165 Texas counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Halls Bluff Town as a historical populated place on the Halls Bluff topographic quadrangle: the name is no longer in official use for a community, whether the settlement was abandoned, absorbed into a neighbouring town or renamed. The recorded location is 31.3582° N, 95.6602° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleHalls Bluff
Elevation176 ft
Nearest living townLatexo, TX
Distance to it11.2 miles
GNIS feature ID1377310
Coordinates31.35824, -95.66023

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Then and now

Drag the slider: the old USGS map on the left, the same ground from the air today on the right. Both cover the same 1.9-mile square centred on the recorded location.

Halls Bluff Town today, aerial view
Halls Bluff quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1964, 1:24,000)

Left: Halls Bluff quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1964, 1:24,000), U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection. Right: The same ground today: NAIP aerial imagery, USDA Farm Service Agency, National Agriculture Imagery Program (via USGS). Both public domain.

What's there now

Halls Bluff Town is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Latexo, TX (population 373), about 11.2 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 176 feet above sea level. The aerial view above shows what covers the ground today. Much of the land around former townsites is private; check access before you visit.

Nearby places

Questions

Where is Halls Bluff Town?

Halls Bluff Town is in Houston County, Texas, at 31.3582, -95.6602.

How many ghost towns are in Houston County?

Houston County, Texas has 8 ghost towns on record at Wayfarrow.

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Facts marked "approximately" carry an uncertain date in the source. Text on this page is generated from the sources above; no encyclopedia prose is copied. Last updated 2026-11-06.