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Vidor is a city in Southeast Texas at the intersection of Interstate 10 and Farm Market Road 105, six miles east of Beaumont in western Orange County. The town is mainly a bedroom community for the nearby refining complexes in Beaumont and Port Arthur. The population was 11,440 at the 2000 census.

The area was heavily logged after the construction of the Texarkana and Fort Smith Railway that was later part of a line that ran from Kansas City to Port Arthur, Texas. The city was named after lumberman Charles Shelton Vidor, owner of the Miller-Vidor Lumber Company and grandfather of director King Vidor. By 1909 the Vidor community had a post office and four years later a company tram road was built. Almost all Vidor residents worked for the company. In 1924 the Miller-Vidor Lumber Company moved to Lakeview, just north of Vidor, in search of virgin timber. A small settlement remained and the Miller-Vidor subdivision was laid out in 1929.

Vidor is located at 30.131492, -93.996292.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 27.4 km² (10.6 mi²). 27.4 km² (10.6 mi²) of it is land and 0.09% is water.

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