Anton (/ˈæntən/ ANT-ən) is a city in Hockley County, Texas, United States.

[3] Anton was founded in 1924 near the center of the north pasture of the former Spade Ranch when ranch owner William Leonard Ellwood contracted with the Anton Townsite Company to plat a town at the site of Danforth Switch, a spur of the Pecos and Northern Texas Railway.

[4] Anton sits just to the east of the geographic center of the level High Plains of the Llano Estacado.

The flat terrain is broken to the west by a dry watercourse called Yellow House Draw, which passes about 0.5 miles (1 km) to the southwest of Anton.

The Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway passes through the western edge of town.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 0.77 square miles (2.0 km2), all land.

[5] As of the 2020 United States census, there were 907 people, 434 households, and 272 families residing in the city.