Big Spring, Texas

Big Spring, Texas
City
The Municipal Auditorium in Big Spring
Nickname:  "The Spring City"
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Coordinates: 32°14′36″N 101°28′31″W / 32.24333°N 101.47528°W / 32.24333; -101.47528
Country	United States
State	Texas
County	Howard
Government
• Type	Council-Manager
• City Council	Mayor Robert Moore Nick Ornelas Diane Yanez Cody Hughes Gloria McDonald Troy Tompkins Maury Smith
• City Manager	Todd Darden
Area [1]
• Total	19.00 sq mi (49.22 km2)
• Land	18.91 sq mi (48.99 km2)
• Water	0.09 sq mi (0.23 km2)
Elevation	2,441 ft (744 m)
Population  (2020)
• Total	26,144
• Density	1,376.0/sq mi (536.6/km2)
	United States Census Bureau
Time zone	UTC−6 (CST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC−6 (CDT)
ZIP codes	79720-79721
Area code	432
FIPS code	48-08236[2]
GNIS feature ID	1330654[3]
Website	www.mybigspring.com

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. With a population of 27,282 as of the 2010 census,^[2] it is the largest city between Midland to the west, Abilene to the east, Lubbock to the north, and San Angelo to the south. 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, large spring that issued into a small gorge between the base of Scenic Mountain and a neighboring hill in the southwestern part of the city limits. Although the name is sometimes still mistakenly pluralized, it is officially singular. "To the native or established residents who may wince at the plural in Big Spring, it should be explained that until about 1916, when for some unexplained reason the name dropped the final 's', the official name of the town was indeed Big Springs."^[4]