Commerce is a city in Hunt County, Texas, United States, situated upon the eastern edge of North Texas, in the heart of the Texas Blackland Prairies. The town is 45 miles (72 km) south of the Texas/Oklahoma border. Commerce is the second-largest city in Hunt County, with a population of 9,090 at the 2020 census. The city is home to Texas A&M University–Commerce, a four-year the academy of beyond 12,000 students that has been in the town before 1894. Commerce is one of the smallest learned towns in Texas.

The town of Commerce was formed considering two merchants named William Jernigan and Josiah Jackson expected a trading read out and mercantile deposit where the present-day downtown area is. The rural Place just to the northeast was an get into prairie originally known as Cow Hill. The town was normal in 1872 and named “Commerce” due to the affluent economic protest among the cotton fields and ideal farm and ranch lands with the Middle and South Sulphur rivers on the rich, black gumbo prairie in northeast Hunt County. The town incorporated in 1885. Two years later, a railroad was built through Commerce to transport merchandise from Fort Worth, and nine years later, William L. Mayo, a researcher educator, moved East Texas Normal College from the northeast Texas town of Cooper to Commerce after the original school in Cooper was destroyed in a fire. Mayo continued as president of the college, now known as Texas A&M University–Commerce, until his death in 1917 and is buried upon the campus grounds.

Commerce was named the “Bois d’Arc Capital of Texas” (pronounced “bow-dark”) by the Texas Legislature because of its location in the geographic middle of the indigenous range of the bois d’arc tree. The second largest bois d’arc tree in Texas, “Big Max”, recognized by the National Forests Famous and Historic Trees, is located within the city limits. Held every September, the annual Bois d’Arc Bash pays homage to the original trees which played a valuable part in the frontier days, providing foundations, fences and weapons of the Native Americans. The Bash celebrates as soon as arts & crafts vendors, food, parade, kids’ game area, pageant, wine, musical entertainment, 5K run, and car & truck show.

Commerce is located in northeastern Hunt County at 33°14′42″N 95°54′0″W / 33.24500°N 95.90000°W / 33.24500; -95.90000 (33.244959, −95.899957).