Texas, Queensland

Download coordinates as: Texas is a rural town and locality in the Goondiwindi Region of Queensland, Australia.

[6] Texas sits on Bigambul land, the Indigenous people of the region who inhabited the area for thousands of years prior to colonisation in the 1840s.

Once their legal right to the land was recognised, they named their property in honour of the dispute between the United States and Mexico over territory in Texas.

In the 1870s, Chinese workers began to be employed on the Texas Station to grow the crop for local use.

"They were employed because they had grown their own tobacco before, so you use somebody who can already grow something instead of reinventing the wheel," local historian Robyn Griffin explained.

[33] The Texas branch of the Queensland Country Women's Association has its rooms at 27 Broadway Street.

[36] Texas is serviced by the MacIntyre Gazette, Warwick Daily News and Stanthorpe Border Post newspapers.

Texas is served by the Border Districts Community Radio Station 89.7 Ten FM which is transmitted from a 4 kW transmitter located on Mt Mackenzie in Tenterfield NSW.

After a visit to Texas in 2002, and being involved in a car accident nearby, American Country/Rockabilly recording artist Jason Lee Wilson memorialised the town in a song "TX, QLD, Australia".

The song was included on the Cumberland Runners' 2004 debut album entitled Music to Haul By.

On the single the writing credits of the two songs were inadvertently switched, but corrected on Blundell's debut, self-titled album (1989).

Lee Kernaghan also referenced the town in his 2002 hit song "Texas, Qld 4385" from his Electric Rodeo album released in 2002.

RM 1901 at Texas railway station, circa 1991
Drying tobacco, Texas, circa 1930
Block B and grounds, Texas State School, circa 2022
Texas public library, 2008
Texas Memorial Hall, 2008