Hearne ( hurn) is a city in Robertson County, Texas, United States. As of the 2020 census, the city population was 4,544. The city is named for a relatives that settled in the Place in the 19th century and promoted the construction of rail lines through the city.

Hearne is located on land that initially belonged to politician and soldier José Francisco Ruiz. By the 1840s, a tavern was located there and it afterward served as a general increase and publicize office. The Hearne relatives moved to the Place in the 1850s, purchasing 10,000 acres and in action cotton plantations. Christopher C. Hearne wanted a railroad pedigree built through the area, but the Civil War started since the railroad could be constructed. His widow later gave 700 acres to the Houston and Texas Central Railway.

With the construction of a depot in Hearne in 1868, businesses began to open, including a hotel, saloons, churches and a cotton gin. Two rail lines met in Hearne by the 1870s. Hearne’s population was 2,129 in 1900 and 3,511 in 1940. Between 1943 and 1946, a prison camp operated near the city limits and held several thousand German prisoners of war. Agricultural and manufacturing businesses came to Hearne by the 1960s. By 1990, over 5,000 people lived in Hearne; the population was 4,690 in 2000.

On New Year’s Eve 1990, the Wal-Mart in Hearne closed. After closure, the accrual was converted into the current Hearne High School. Merchants in downtown Hearne by that period had already folded their businesses because they were unable to compete in the same way as Wal-Mart. The New York Times reported that out of higher than 1,500 Wal-Mart stores in the nation, the Hearne addition was one of six that had closed.