Phillips is a ghost town in Hutchinson County, Texas, United States. It was founded as Pantex, Texas. In 1938, Pantex and Whittenburg combined and renamed as Phillips for the dominant employer, the Phillips Petroleum Company, by a vote of the people.

American actress Mary Castle lived in Phillips as a girl and attended junior high school there.

State Senator and former president of West Texas A&M University Max Sherman was reared in Phillips and graduated from Phillips High School.

Phillips appeared as an unincorporated community in the 1950 U.S. census and was listed as a census designated place in the 1980 United States census.

Maximum population: 4,250 in 1947

It is served by the Plemons-Stinnett-Phillips Consolidated Independent School District.

It was a part of the Phillips Independent School District until July 1, 1987, when it merged into the PSP CISD.

On March 19, 1950, a fire destroyed the high school. Local churches housed classes until the new school was built.^{[citation needed]}