Imperial is a census-designated place (CDP) in Pecos County, Texas, United States. The population was 278 at the 2010 census.

Imperial is located at 31°16′19″N 102°41′45″W / 31.27194°N 102.69583°W / 31.27194; -102.69583 (31.271968, -102.695799). It is situated at the intersection of Farm Roads 11 and 1053, four miles south of the Pecos River and approximately 30 miles northeast of Fort Stockton in northern Pecos County.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 4.2 square miles (11 km), all of it land.

The community was arranged in the before 1900s. The site was originally known as Redlands from 1908 to with hint to 1910, when it was renamed after California’s Imperial Valley. A publicize office and scholastic were opened in 1910 and a townsite was laid out upon land owned by Benjamin E. Bush one year later. Water from the Pecos River was diverted and a small dam was built west of the community. An irrigation canal was constructed through Imperial in an attempt to attract further residents, but the area’s water had a high salt content, which made farming unproductive. The population was approximately 25 in the mid-1920s, but had increased tenfold by 1949. Imperial’s population approached 1,000 by the late 1960s subsequently twenty-six businesses practicing in the community. The number of inhabitants continued to stop during the latter half of the twentieth century.