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Sandstorm, 1894 Main Street, 1894 Bank of America Building, Midland's tallest. Midland was established in June 1881 as Midway Station, on the Texas and Pacific Railway.Its name came from its central location between Fort Worth and El Paso, but because there were already other towns in Texas named Midway, the city changed its name to Midland in January 1884 when it was granted its first post ...
Former Midland County courthouse marked for razing Midland County Public Library in Midland. Midland County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. As of 2020, the population was 169,983. [1] The county seat is Midland. [2] The county is so named for being halfway (midway) between Fort Worth and El Paso on the Texas and Pacific Railway.
Midland–Odessa is a metropolitan area located in The Texas Plains approximately half-way between El Paso and Fort Worth, Texas.This combined statistical area (CSA) is made up of two metropolitan statistical areas (the Midland MSA and the Odessa MSA) and one micropolitan statistical area (Andrews μSA), and comprises four counties: Andrews, Ector, Martin, and Midland counties.
In 1939, Harvey Sloan sold the field to the City of Midland for $14,500. As war clouds gathered over Europe in the late 1930s, Midland businessmen could foresee the possibility of a military base in West Texas and in 1940 they started promoting the airfield for use as a training base to the military establishment in Washington.
The Midland Metropolitan Statistical Area, as defined by the United States Census Bureau, is an area consisting of one county – Midland – in West Texas, anchored by the city of Midland. As of the 2020 census , the MSA had a population of 169,983.
State Highway 191 (SH 191) is a Texas state highway running from the north side of Odessa east to the western edge of Midland.The highway is usually used as a reliever route for local traffic between the two cities, as opposed to I-20 a few miles to the south.
The corridor of Loop 250 from Midland Drive to Garfield Street is the sight of many restaurants and shopping centers, including Midland Park Mall. Between Garfield Street and Bus. SH 349 (Big Spring Street), the southern frontage road serves as the northern boundary for Midland Airpark. Just east of Fairgrounds Road, freeway status ends and ...
The Odessa metropolitan statistical area, as defined by the United States Census Bureau, is an area consisting of one county, Ector, in West Texas, anchored by the city of Odessa. As of the 2020 census, the MSA had a population of 165,171. [1]