Vidor (/ˈvaɪdər/ VY-dər) is a city in western Orange County, Texas, United States.

A city of Southeast Texas, it lies at the intersection of Interstate 10 and Farm to Market Road 105, 6 miles (9.7 km) east of Beaumont.

Vidor's segregated public housing practices were formally abolished in 1993 after U.S. District Judge William Wayne Justice issued an order to desegregate 36 counties in Texas, which included public housing in Vidor.

The Ku Klux Klan responded by hosting rallies in support of an all-white Vidor, though some citizens protested the anti-Black coalition.

[7] The area was heavily logged after the construction of the Texarkana and Fort Smith Railway that was later part of a line that ran from Kansas City to Port Arthur, Texas.

By 1909, the Vidor community had a post office and four years later a company tram road was built.

In 1924, the Miller-Vidor Lumber Company moved to Lakeview, just north of Vidor, in search of virgin timber.

[9][10] In 1993, after district court judge William Wayne Justice ordered that 36 counties in East Texas, including Vidor, desegregate public housing by making some units available for minorities, the Ku Klux Klan held a march in the community after a long legal battle was lost by Vidor's leaders.

Church leaders held a well-attended prayer rally in opposition to the KKK hatred.

"[13] During the George Floyd protests of 2020, Black Lives Matter held a rally in Vidor that was attended by a diverse crowd of 150–200 people.

[9][14] In 2005, 2008, and 2017, Vidor and surrounding areas suffered extensive damage from, respectively, Hurricanes Rita, Ike and Harvey.

[23] The top nine reported ancestries (people were allowed to report up to two ancestries, thus the figures will generally add to more than 100%) were German (18.1%), Irish (12.4%), French (except Basque) (11.3%), English (8.0%), Italian (2.1%), Scottish (0.9%), Norwegian (0.7%), Polish (0.5%), and Subsaharan African (0.0%).