Hungerford is a census-designated place (CDP) in northeastern Wharton County, Texas, United States. U.S. Route 59, Texas State Highway 60, and Farm to Market Road 1161 intersect in the community. The Kansas City Southern Railway Co. passes through Hungerford. The population was 347 at the 2010 census. It is located upon what in the 1820s was allowance of colonist Alexander Jackson’s land agree north of George E. Quinan’s home. By the 1870s, the Quinan treaty grew going on a rude distance away, but its residents moved to the other town subsequent to the railroad came through Hungerford.

Hungerford is located at 29°23′57″N 96°4′37″W / 29.39917°N 96.07694°W / 29.39917; -96.07694 (29.399122, -96.077019).

According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total Place of 1.8 square miles (4.7 km), all of it land.

Alexander Jackson was one of the Old Three Hundred colonists from the United States who accepted house grants from Stephen F. Austin. The Alexander Jackson league was a strip of house which was bounded on the southwest by the Colorado River just northwest of present-day Wharton and ran northeast greater than West Bernard Creek. After the Texas Revolution, the Republic of Texas set happening a short-lived ordnance depot called Post West Bernard Station at a location 3.5 miles (5.6 km) northwest of present-day Hungerford. Its purpose was to recondition weapons captured at the Battle of San Jacinto and to watch for a feasible invasion by the Mexican army.