Memphis is a city and the county seat of Hall County, Texas, United States. As of the 2010 census, the population was 2,290.

Memphis, Texas, the county seat of Hall County, is at the junction of U.S. Highway 287, State Highway 256, and Farm Road 1547, in the northeastern part of the county. It started in 1889, when J. C. Montgomery purchased house for a townsite north of Salisbury upon the Fort Worth and Denver City Railway. This house had been before owned by W. H. Robertson, who had a dugout near Parker Creek. Montgomery and Robertson, with Rev. J. W. Brice and T. J. Woods, Jr., of Dallas, formed a townsite company and presented a plat in advance in January 1890. P. M. Kelly opened a achievement office. A rooming house (later the Memphis Hotel), a general store, a drugstore, and several residences were soon erected. For a time, the extra town was without a name. Several suggestions were submitted to federal postal authorities, but subsequent to negative results. Finally, as the description goes, Reverend Brice, while in Austin, happened to see a letter addressed by crash to Memphis, Texas, rather than Tennessee, with the notation “no such town in Texas”. The make known was submitted and accepted, and a publish office was established on September 12, 1890, with Robertson as postmaster.

In the meantime, Hall County was bodily organized. Memphis was engaged in a livid county seat fight with against Salisbury and Lakeview. Memphis won the election in the vent of a sum of 84 votes. County officers were elected in June, and a theoretical district was taking into consideration formed. Since Memphis was without a depot and trains did not stop there, certain citizens sought to remedy that matter by smearing the tracks like lye soap. A subsequent taking over was struck between town promoters and railroad officials. In 1891, a depot was built, and businesses were moved upon wheels from Salisbury to the supplementary county seat, where a courthouse of homemade bricks was constructed in 1892.

Memphis consequently enjoyed a boom period. Two saloons, a bank, numerous stores, blacksmith shops, and livery stables attested to its role as a shipping and trading middle for Place ranchers and farmers. The Missionary Baptist Church was organized in Memphis; its minister Rev. J. L. Pyle began Baptist congregations throughout the county. Telephone assist was first installed in 1901. In June 1906, the town was incorporated gone a mayor-council form of city government. The Memphis Cotton Oil Mill was established in 1907. Memphis had at one become old or substitute several newspapers, including the Hall County Record (1889–1893), the Hall County Herald (1890–1928), the Memphis Journal (1892–1894), the Memphis Times (1896), the Memphis Leader (1897–1899), the Hall County News (1897–1903), and the Memphis News (1928–1929). The without help newspaper extant in 1986, the Memphis Democrat, was launched in 1908 and went through a consent of owners. By the 1920s, Memphis had a new brick-and-stone courthouse, modern utilities, a cotton compress, three hotels, brick theoretical buildings, and a Carnegie Library. In 1922, the city’s Morning Side auxiliary was founded east of the tracks as a residential area for blacks who labored in the cotton fields and mills. In 1935, E. M. Ewen and his wife formed the Hall County Old Settlers’ Reunion (later the Hall County Picnic Association). Four years later, they staged a rodeo as portion of the annual two-day celebration.