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Big Spring is a city in and the county seat of Howard County, Texas, United States, at the crossroads of U.S. Highway 87 and Interstate 20. The population was 26,144 at the 2020 census. [4] Big Spring was established as the county seat of Howard County in 1882; it is the largest community in the county. The city took its name from the single ...
Fort Worth, Texas. Fort Worth is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the seat of Tarrant County, covering nearly 350 square miles (910 km 2) into Denton, Johnson, Parker, and Wise counties. According to the 2024 United States census estimate, Fort Worth's population was 996,756 making it the fifth-most populous city in the state and the 12th ...
Howard County Library in Big Spring. Howard County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. At the 2020 census, its population was 34,860. [1] Its county seat is Big Spring. [2] The county was created in 1876 and organized in 1882. [3] It is named for Volney E. Howard, a U.S. Congressman from Texas.
Webb Air Force Base (IATA: BGS [1]), previously named Big Spring Air Force Base, was a United States Air Force facility of the Air Training Command that operated from 1951 to 1977 in West Texas within the current city limits of Big Spring. Webb AFB was a major undergraduate pilot training (UPT) facility for the Air Force, and by 1969, almost ...
2 February 1982 – 21 May 1991. Fort Worth City Councilman from 1979 to 1982. Retired to serve as an advisor to the chancellor of Texas Christian University. Served longest term in Fort Worth mayoral history. 41st. Norvell Kay Granger. Republican. 21 May 1991 – 19 December 1995. First female mayor of Fort Worth.
Lake Worth, a 2.5-square-mile city incorporated in 1949 and originally called Lake Worth Village, lies to the east of the lake that it’s named after. The Tarrant County suburb houses a small ...
After the Mexican–American War. In January 1849, U.S. Army General William Jenkins Worth, a veteran of the Mexican–American War, proposed building ten forts to mark and protect the west Texas frontier, situated from Eagle Pass to the confluence of the West Fork and Clear Fork of the Trinity River. Worth died on 7 May 1849 from cholera. [4]
Crockett County: John Schuyler Sutton, a Texas Ranger and soldier in the Texas Revolution and Mexican–American War 3,221: 1,454 sq mi (3,766 km 2) Swisher County: 437: Tulia: 1876: Bexar County: James Gibson Swisher, a soldier of the Texas Revolution 6,955: 900 sq mi (2,331 km 2) Tarrant County: 439: Fort Worth: 1849: Navarro County