Memphis, TX

Memphis is a Hall County city and county seat at the junction of U.S. 287, State Highway 256, and Farm to Market Road 1547 in the Texas Panhandle. The 2020 census counted 2,048 residents. The city sits between Amarillo and Wichita Falls, with cotton country, ranches, and long highway distances setting the scale. City offices, schools, medical services, and farm suppliers serve a wide stretch of the county from the square and the roads leading out.

The town took its name from a letter meant for Memphis, Tennessee, that was sent to the Texas settlement and returned with a note saying no such town existed; residents kept the name. A post office followed in 1890. Memphis later became a farm-supply center with cotton gins, a compress, a grain elevator, banks, churches, and a municipal airport. Heritage Hall occupies the old First National Bank building on the square, while Brookhollow Country Club Lake lies six miles northeast. The city’s annual bowhunters competition and older brick-paved streets add local texture to a working county seat.