Avery is a town in Red River County, in the U.S. state of Texas. The population was 482 at the 2010 census. From the 1920s through the at the forefront 1960s Avery was one of the largest tomato producing and shipping cities in northeastern Texas.

The town was acknowledged in the 1870s. Avery is located upon U.S. Highway 82 sixteen miles southeast of Clarksville in eastern Red River County. When the Texas and Pacific railroad was being constructed through the county in the 1870s, the managers of the railroad planned a station at the site and named it Douglass. Settlement in the community was slow because the surrounding Place was in view of that sparsely populated. When a correspondent of the Clarksville Standard newspaper visited Douglass in beforehand 1881 he found a store of families vibrant in tents. Later that year, when Isaac Bradford and his assistant opened their general store, a reveal office was normal there, and the declare of the town was misrepresented to Isaca. In 1902 the reveal was distorted to Avery, in tribute of Ed Avery, the first railway station agent. In 1884 the population was estimated at thirty, and by 1896 it had increased to forty-eight. By 1900 Avery had three churches, a school, and a population of 176. During the first decade of the twentieth century cotton ginning was an important local industry. By 1914 the town had two banks; a weekly newspaper, the Avery News, published by H. H. Morgan; and a population estimated at 500. The population reached its highest reduction in the late 1920s subsequent to a reported 800 residents, before falling gruffly to a low of 300 in the forward 1930s. Avery was incorporated in the past the 1940 census, when it reported 477 residents. The population taking into account remained relatively stable. The 1980 census recorded 520 residents, and in 1986 nine businesses were reported. In 1990 the population was 430. By 2000 the population increased to 462.

Avery is located at 33°33′13″N 94°46′49″W / 33.55361°N 94.78028°W / 33.55361; -94.78028 (33.553519, –94.780308).

According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total Place of 1.0 square mile (2.6 km), of which, 0.9 square miles (2.3 km²) of it is house and 0.04 square miles (0.10 km) of it (3.06%) is water.