Lott is a city in Falls County, Texas, United States. As of the 2020 census, the city population was 644.

The Texas Townsite Company bought the house in 1889. When the San Antonio and Aransas Pass Railway was built through the Place in 1890, Lott was founded; it was named in praise of Uriah Lott, president of the railroad. A publicize office was traditional at the settlement in 1890, with S. J. Crump as postmaster. When the community was incorporated by unanimous vote superior that year, its population was estimated at more than 200. By 1892 Lott had Baptist, Methodist, and Presbyterian churches, two cotton gins and gristmills, a weekly newspaper, and 350 residents. Its population estimates were as high as 1,200 by the halt of the 1890s. Lott continued to prosper throughout the first ration of the 20th century afterward the town developed into a Famous speed trap, securing the town’s primary revenue source to the present day. The First National Bank of Lott was customary in 1903, and the Lott State Bank was chartered in 1909. Local businesses did well, and residents were optimistic roughly the community’s far ahead growth. Lott’s economy normal an other boost in the 1920s behind State Highway 44 (later U.S. 77) built through the community. The Great Depression, however, brought significant changes. In 1933, the First National Bank of Lott went into receivership and did not reopen. During the mid-1930s, many local families had to take government assist to make ends meet, although the Public Works Administration and the Works Progress provided some residents in imitation of jobs on street and water works.

Cotton and corn were for many years the staple crops of Place farmers, but dealing out subsidies encouraged diversification into growth raising and truck farming. The population of the community was reported as 921 in the 1930s; it rose to 1,021 in the 1940s, but fell to 956 by the before 1950s. Lott floating its rail minister to in 1967, when the Southern Pacific unaccompanied the section of track amongst Waco and Rosebud. Population estimates for Lott fluctuated between 750 and 950 residents from the 1960s through the 1980s, and the number of businesses fell steadily, from 45 in the 1940s to 12 in the 1980s. Thirteen businesses and 828 residents were reported in Lott at the fade away of the 1980s. In 1990, its population was estimated at 775.

In June 2015, a TV station reported that the cities of Calvert, Franklin, Hearne, and Lott in a “Texas Triangle” were using their police departments to matter numerous speeding tickets to tilt their municipal court into a “cash cow”.