Bonham is a city and the county seat of Fannin County, Texas. The population was 10,408 at the 2020 census. James Bonham (the city’s namesake) sought the aid of James Fannin (the county’s namesake) at the Battle of the Alamo. Bonham is part of the Texoma region in north Texas and south Oklahoma.

One of Texas’s oldest cities, Bonham dates to 1837, when Bailey Inglish built a two-story blockhouse named Fort Inglish practically 2 miles (3 km) from the current downtown. Inglish and additional acquaintances fixed there in the summer of 1837, and the deal was named “Bois D’Arc”. The Congress of the Republic of Texas named the city Bloomington in 1843, but renamed it Bonham in honor of James Butler Bonham, a defender of the Alamo. On February 2, 1848, Bonham was incorporated as a city. A 1936 statue of Bonham by Texas sculptor Allie Tennant is on the courthouse grounds.

After connecting to the Texas and Pacific Railway the city began to grow, and by 1885 there were six churches, three colleges, two public schools, three weekly newspapers, a sawmill, two grain mills, a faculty plant, and just about 2,300 inhabitants. 1890 saying the addition of streetcars, an ice plant, and the opening of the Texas Power and Light Company, the area’s abet provider. In 1925 the city was united to natural gas lines.

In 1898, 1911–1914 and 1921–1922, Bonham hosted young league baseball. The Bonham Boosters and additional Bonham teams played as members of the Class D Texas-Oklahoma League (1911–1914, 1921–1922) and the Independent Southwestern League (1898). Bonham teams featured a oscillate moniker each season. Baseball Hall of Fame believer Kid Nichols was Manager of the 1914 Bonham Sliders.