Smyer is a town in Hockley County, Texas, United States. It was founded in 1917 and finished construction in 1925. The population was 474 at the 2010 census. in 2022, the population is at 526

In 1902, Isaac L. Ellwood acquired 262,000 acres (1,060 km) in Hockley and Lamb Counties and formed the Spade Ranch. The ranch, located deep within the heart of the Llano Estacado, was 10 mi (16 km) wide by 54 mi (87 km) long. The ranch’s main headquarters were located in southeastern Lamb County, and the south pasture operations were headed in the works in eastern Hockley County, near present-day Smyer. The town of Smyer was founded in 1917, when William L. Ellwood began selling portions of the Spade Ranch to farmers. The town ended construction in 1925 and was named after Clinton E. Smyer, a Santa Fe Railroad isolation superintendent. the town built many useful items after it was completed such as a school, a steam gin, a lumberyard, and a store. Clinton E. Smyer built a small home for himself upon the corner of the town close Highway 114 and present day Horseshoe heap and stayed until moving urge on to Catawba County, NC in the expose of his family. In 1929, a Awful tornado struck the town and damaged many things in the town at the time, causing most of the townspeople to be anxious through the Great Depression. By the in the future 1930s, Smyer picked up upon new technology for the speculative and additional homes around for good use and greater than before conditions, making Smyer the first of its times to be purchased in its county. Smyer was awarded for such amazing features and was opened with supplementary adjustments of the Smyer School. In 1947, Smyer had 5 thing and a planned construction of a extra section of schooling area for younger grades, which would unconditional the studious in preparation for an fall date in 1950. In 1979, the schools were redone and aligned after major construction happened upon the school’s architecture and mainframe add-on a new high school area, office, board room, gymnasium, and auditorium. In 2022, Smyer was awarded the Blue Ribbon Schools rave review after pushing through the COVID-19 pandemic and interim at a high level of teaching and learning. The instructor is one of the most important parts of the town, as most activities take place at the literary such as sports, meetings, band performances, and supplementary antics. Today, Smyer is a very kind sized town and seems to have no plans of getting any bigger.

Smyer is located upon the high plains of the Llano Estacado at 33°35′03″N 102°09′48″W / 33.58417°N 102.16333°W / 33.58417; -102.16333 (33.5842563, –102.1632291), in eastern Hockley County. Texas State Highway 114 passes through the southern side of the town, leading west 16 miles (26 km) to Levelland, the county seat, and east 17 miles (27 km) to Lubbock.

According to the United States Census Bureau, Smyer has a total Place of 0.81 square miles (2.1 km), all of it land.