According to the results obtained from the known historical Çatahöyük excavations, Çumra, which dates back to 7,000 BC and earlier, became a district in 1926. It is rumored that its name was ÇUMRA, which came from the Âmud or Çemre due to its wet and swampy land structure in the past. The district, which is 43 km away from Konya Center, is on the highway and railway route of Konya, Karaman.

The district has a close past in history. During the construction of the Haydarpaşa-Bağdat railway, the construction of which was started in 1894 and finished in 1913, a station was built in the place where Çumra is located, and this building was the first building to be built in Çumra. The management buildings of the irrigation facilities built in 1907-1914 for the purpose of opening the Çarşamba Canal, drying and rehabilitating the swamps and irrigating the Konya plain were built in Çumra. Until 1926, when Çumra was mentioned, today's Ichericumra Town came to mind. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, on the way to Adana by train, took a break in Çumra, after watching the surroundings from Çumra station and seeing the irrigation facilities and lodgings, "It is necessary to develop this charming town and give importance to it. Çumra deserves to be a district." he said. On the order of Atatürk, on 26 June 1926, with the Law No. 877, Çumra became the district center. Families of immigrants from the Balkans to Anatolia were settled in Çumra in 1936 and 1950, and in the following years, the district grew and took its present form with the migrations from Districts such as Hadim, Bozkır, Ermenek and nearby villages and towns.

Since it has a close past, there are no historical monuments in the district center. The settled life in Çumra is 12 km from Çumra. BC Çatalhöyük and its surroundings. It is known to date back to 7,000 years ago. It is estimated that an advanced civilization of the Neolithic period started from here and spread to the world, where trade, domestication of animals, jewelry, ornaments, painting and sculpture arts and weaving were made for the first time, and earthenware and copper were used here for the first time.

90% of the land is flat, 10% is mountainous and forested areas. The altitude of the district at sea level (altitude) is 1013 meters, and the highest point of the region is Karadağ with an altitude of 2288 meters, which separates the Çumra and Karaman borders. The Hotamış Lake, which will be re-watered with the Çarşamba stream, Apa dam lake and the Blue Tunnel Project, is one of the most important water resources of the district.