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Andrews is the county seat of Andrews County in the Permian Basin of West Texas. [5] Andrews sits to the far southwest within the Texas Panhandle's plains, about 30 miles east of New Mexico. Andrews was incorporated on February 2, 1937. Both the city and county were named for Richard Andrews, the first Texan soldier to die in the Texas ...
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Andrews County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. It is in West Texas and its county seat is Andrews. As of the 2020 census, the population was 18,610. [1] [2] The Andrews Micropolitan Statistical Area includes all of Andrews County. Andrews county was created August 21, 1876, from Tom Green County and organized in 1910. [3]
Map Anderson County: 001: Palestine: 1846: Houston County: Kenneth Lewis Anderson (1805–1845), the last vice president of the Republic of Texas: 57,736: 1,071 sq mi (2,774 km 2) Andrews County: 003: Andrews: 1876: Bexar County: Richard Andrews (1800–1835), the first Texan soldier to die in the Texas Revolution: 18,664: 1,501 sq mi (3,888 km ...
Texas's 11th congressional district of the United States House of Representatives is in the midwestern portion of the state of Texas, stretching from the Permian Basin through the Hill Country. Major cities in the district include: Andrews , Midland , Odessa , San Angelo , Killeen , and Brownwood .
Located in north central Andrews County, the town developed as part of the early 20th-century land boom in West Texas.A local businessman, J.F. Bustin, convinced the firm Pierce and Powers to found a town on the north shore of a shallow alkali playa lake lying fifty feet below the elevation of the surrounding land.
After statehood, Texas county courthouses kept their powers. [2] The counties of Texas were often first served by a tree, tent, or another building before judicial functions moved into a log cabin or dugout. [3] During the later 19th century, most county courthouses were simple wooden or stone two-story rectangular buildings. [4]
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.