Tatum is a city in Rusk and Panola counties in Texas, United States. Its population was 1,342 at the 2020 census. Tatum was settled in the 1840s by Albert Tatum and his second wife, Mary C. Tatum. In 1848, they built a large plantation there. In 1885, the Santa Fe Railway came through, and the town was divided into individual lots. One of their sons, Paul "Uncle Fox" Tatum, who studied architecture in New York, laid out the streets. He became the postmaster in 1886. The city of Tatum lies along Trammel's Trace, an old trade route; a marker at the south end of town commemorates it. In the city park stands the restored Santa Fe depot.
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