Luling is a city in Caldwell and Guadalupe counties, Texas, United States, along the San Marcos River. The population as of the 2020 census was 5,599.

The town was named after a New York banker, Charles Luling. He was a personal buddy of Thomas Wentworth Pierce and provided the financing for the railroad as capably the purchase of the house that became Luling.

Luling was founded in 1874 as a railroad town and became a rowdy center for the cattle drivers on the Chisholm Trail. Contempt of the take steps by the cowboys helped Luling become known as the “toughest town in Texas”. After the good cattle drives done in the late 1880s, Luling quieted all along to a town of practically 500 and cotton ruled the local economy. Perhaps due to beginning of immigrants, including a sizeable Jewish population,^{[further story needed]} in the late-19th century, Luling began a long, slow, period of growth, and by 1925 the population reached 1,500.

One of the most significant undertakings in Luling’s records was the discovery of oil by Edgar B. Davis. Davis mortgaged all he owned to finance drilling operations in the region of Luling. On August 9, 1922, the Rafael Rios No. 1 capably struck oil at 2,161 feet (659 m), producing 150 barrels per day (24 m³/d). To pay back his loans, Davis decided 2 million barrels (320,000 m) each to Atlantic Oil and Magnolia Oil at $.50 a barrel, plus unusual 2 million barrels (320,000 m³) to Magnolia at $.75 per barrel.