Woodson was originally called Jom, when it was established around a cotton gin built so that the ranchers could get cottonseed to feed to cattle.

When the original schoolhouse grew too small to hold all of Woodson's students, the First Christian Church was used as an additional educational space.

According to Big Country: People, Events and Places, Volume V, the line was owned and operated by the Texas and Pacific Railroad.

[8] Woodson is situated in semiarid rolling hills covered in mesquite with "jumping" and prickly pear cactus, "blue brush", and occasional live or post oaks.

The ground along creeks may be covered in green briars, poison ivy, or oak, and Virginia creeper grows high into the trees in places.

It is home to white-tailed deer, wild turkey, cotton-tailed and jack rabbits, feral hogs, bobcats, raccoons, opossums, rattlesnakes, bobwhite quail, mourning doves, armadillos, coyotes, and occasionally a badger, beaver, fox, mountain lion, and even javalina is seen.

Many small animals dwell there, such as fox squirrels, hispid cotton rats, soft-shelled turtles, and others too numerous to mention.

Large yellow catfish live in the slow-moving rivers or in the local lake and stock tanks (ponds), along with many other fish such as channel catfish, large-mouthed bass, crappie, gar, carp, buffalo fish, drum, bream, and goggle-eyed sun perch.

[9] On March 23, 1945, a rancher on the Barney Davis Ranch, 8 miles (13 km) north of Woodson, Ivan Miller, found a balloon bomb in his field.

The war in Europe was coming to an end, so attention was turned to finishing the job against the Japanese in the Pacific.

Miller's widow recalled later that he described the balloon to be "as big around as a house," with a large rising sun painted on its top and several smaller versions around the bottom.

Despite the small numbers, Woodson offers many extracurricular activities, such as: Farming and ranching were the main sources of income until 1923, when the first oil well was completed.

This set off a local drilling boom, and Texaco even built a refinery north of Woodson, in Whiz Bang.