In the past, the town is a town that has come before the Mon people. The evidence appears that the Mon art Amphoe ban Tak. There are ancient history, and is one of the districts which have a life expectancy of more than two thousand years old upwards. When an evacuation of Thailand from the Southern Yangtze basin, down along the River (Salween River). One of them, have crossed the Salween River. Mae Sot district and where the current is called the "city of Tak.