Cottonwood is a ghost town in Brazos County, in the U.S. state of Texas.

[1] It is located within the Bryan-College Station metropolitan area.

Cottonwood was located at the intersection of Farm to Market Roads 974 and 2038, 12 mi (19 km) northeast of Bryan in northern Brazos County.

[2] The Cottonwood Baptist Church that was built in 1910 was used as a school and continued to operate into the 1930s.

[2] Today, Cottonwood is located within the Bryan Independent School District.