Hightower, Texas

Hightower is an unincorporated community in Liberty County, Texas, United States.

It contains small farms, pastures, ranchettes, timber plantations, individual residential lots, small Protestant churches, and a Georgia Pacific lumber mill.

The area was rechristened Hightower in 1912 in honor of district judge Lewis B. Hightower Sr., who lived there while serving on the Ninth Judicial District bench from 1888 until his death in 1918.

[2] Law enforcement is provided by the Liberty County Sheriff's office.

A BNSF Railway track runs through Hightower, connecting the cities of Cleveland and Silsbee.