Borden is an unincorporated community in southwestern Colorado County, Texas, United States.

The Galveston, Harrisburg and San Antonio Railway opened its line through the Borden area in 1872.

[2] In 1938, the Texas Highway Department announced plans to construct a lake and roadside park in Borden.

Work began on the project by February 1938, with "a modest beginning as a roadside park,” according to the Headlight.

"Workmen are busy now in damming up the creek, pulling down a hill in this vicinity, and utilizing [sic] dirt from this elsewhere to form banks for the new lake," M.B.