Wilson is a small rural city in the northeastern quadrant of Lynn County, Texas, United States.

[3] The town of Wilson was established in 1912 by William Dickson Green of Shiner, Texas, and Lonnie Lumsden.

[5][6] Wilson was founded in anticipation that the Panhandle and Santa Fe Railway would lay tracks through the area.

[4] Wilson rests upon the level High Plains of the Llano Estacado in West Texas.

Farm to Market Road 400 runs parallel to the tracks of the former Panhandle and Santa Fe Railway.

This branch line was abandoned in 1999 and Wilson no longer has access to rail transport.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 0.6 square miles (1.6 km2), all land.