Redwater is a city in Bowie County, Texas, United States. The population was 853 at the 2020 census. It is portion of the Texarkana metropolitan area.

Redwater is twelve miles southwest of Texarkana in southeastern Bowie County. It grew going on in the mid-1870s in the region of a sawmill operated by two men named Daniels and Spence, who named the community Ingersoll, in award of the agnostic Robert Ingersoll. A publish office was acknowledged in 1881, and by 1884 the town had an estimated population of fifty.

In 1886 a big revival meeting was held in the town, which resulted in very nearly 110 conversions. Shortly after the meeting residents of the town, no longer wishing to praise the agnostic, decided that the make known of the town should be changed. They had just completed a new well that yielded red water, and the town was renamed for this feature. The declare of the broadcast office was not officially misrepresented until 1894. Although the population of the town swelled to an estimated 300 by 1892, by 1900 it had fallen to 128. It reached 250 in the 1920s.

During World War II the Red River Army Depot and Lone Star Army Ammunition Plant were built just north of Redwater, providing thousands of jobs for county residents. The population of Redwater jumped from 250 in the beforehand 1940s to 457 by 1950. In 1982 Redwater had a population of 460 and five rated businesses. In 1990 the population was 894.