Bovina is a city in Parmer County, Texas, United States.

When the Pecos and Northern Texas Railway was built through the ranch in 1898, a switch was placed at the site to be used by cowboys to unload cottonseed shipped in as feed.

Some of this feed was invariably spilled along the tracks, causing XIT cattle to gather at the unfenced right-of-way.

As a result, the site was labeled Bull Town, a name replaced by the more elegant Bovina when the post office was established on January 31, 1899.

[1] According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 0.9 square miles (2.3 km2), all land.

As of the 2020 United States census, there were 1,699 people, 412 households, and 282 families residing in the city.

In 1976, Bovina adopted the city manager form of government, with Larry D. Gilley first filling the position.