Birome, Texas

Birome (/baɪˈroʊm/ bye-ROHM) is an unincorporated community in south central Hill County in Central Texas, United States.

[1] It is located approximately fifteen miles south of Hillsboro, at the intersection of FM 308 and County Road 3238.

[2] Birome was founded in 1910 when the International-Great Northern Railroad was extended to that point.

The town's name is a portmanteau of Bickham and Jerome Cartwright, brothers who owned the original town site.

[2] Birome had an estimated population of thirty-one in 2000.