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Wharton is a city in and the county seat of Wharton County, Texas, United States. This city is 60 mi (97 km) southwest of Houston. Its population was 8,832 at the 2010 census and 8,627 at the 2020 census. Wharton is located upon the Colorado River of Texas. U.S. Highway 59 passes west of it.

The area now known as Wharton was share of the Caney Run mail route expected in 1838 by the Republic of Texas. The community was named after two leaders in the Anglo-American torture yourself for Texas independence, brothers John and William Wharton. What developed as a plantation community along the Colorado River was first approved in 1846 by some of Stephen F. Austin’s original colonists. A name office was customary the adjacent year.

The first lieutenant commissioner of Texas, Albert Horton, was an before settler. Land for the courthouse square was donated by William Kincheloe and surveyed by Virgil Stewart and William J. E. Heard. Early settlers came from across the South: Alabama, Kentucky, Virginia, Georgia, and Mississippi.