Bardwell is a city in Ellis County, Texas, United States.

Bardwell is located at the junction of State Highway 34 and Farm to Market Road 984 in southern Ellis County, 15 miles (24 km) southeast of Waxahachie.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 0.3 square miles (0.8 km2), all land.

[5] The community was settled in the early 1880s when the town's namesake, John W. Bardwell, built a cotton gin one mile south of the present-day location.

[6] When the Trinity and Brazos Valley Railway was routed through Ellis County in 1907, the gin and community were moved to the nearest stretch of track.

Bardwell prospered throughout the 1920s as a cotton shipping point with three gins and six grocery stores.

[4] The population grew to 650 by 1929, but the Great Depression and a subsequent drought severely impacted the community.