History of Dallam, Texas: A Former Railroad Stop


By: Laurie E. Jasinski

Published: July 8, 2005

Dallam was located about sixteen miles southeast of College Station in southern Brazos County. This settlement began in the early 1900s and was a railroad stop on a spur of the International–Great Northern Railroad. During this time three prison camps that supplied convict labor also operated in the area of Dallam. The stop still appeared on maps in the 1950s but had disappeared by the late twentieth century. No population figures were available.

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Glenna Fourman Brundidge, Brazos County History: Rich Past—Bright Future (Bryan, Texas: Family History Foundation, 1986).

The following, adapted from the Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition, is the preferred citation for this entry.

Laurie E. Jasinski, “Dallam, TX,” Handbook of Texas Online, accessed March 09, 2026, https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/dallam-tx.

Published by the Texas State Historical Association.

TID: HRD80

July 8, 2005

Find out more about this place from our Texas Almanac.

Place
Dallam
Currently Exists
No
Place Type
Town
USGS ID
1379632
Town Fields
  • Has post office: No
  • Is Incorporated: No
Belongs to
  • Brazos County
Coordinates
  • Latitude: 30.42020620°
  • Longitude: -96.21634880°

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