Detroit is a town in Red River County, Texas, United States. The population was 776 at the 2000 census. John Nance Garner, 32nd Vice President of the United States, was born outside of Detroit but lived most of his life in Uvalde on the southern rim of the Texas Hill Country. Ross Junior Spencer (born in Detroit in 1933) is a retired leader of Independent Baptists in Texas who in 1973 founded Bethany Baptist Church in Lubbock.