{"id":8122,"date":"2023-09-20T06:16:29","date_gmt":"2023-09-20T06:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/?p=8122"},"modified":"2026-08-07T13:07:40","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T13:07:40","slug":"midland-county-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/midland-county-texas\/","title":{"rendered":"Midland County, Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Midland County is a county in Texas, United States, about 20 miles east of Odessa on<br \/>\nInterstate 20. It had a population of 169,983 at the 2020 census, an estimated 187,855 by 2025,<br \/>\nand covers 902 square miles (2,340 km2) centred near 31\u00b053\u2032N 102\u00b001\u2032W.<\/p>\n<p>Midland is the county seat and the county&rsquo;s only incorporated city; its postal code is 79701.<br \/>\nThe county holds 1 city and 5 unincorporated communities, and it runs on Central Time.<br \/>\nIts FIPS code is 48329.<\/p>\n<h2>Towns &amp; Villages in Midland County<\/h2>\n<p>Midland County has 6 named places on record: 1 incorporated city and 5 unincorporated<br \/>\ncommunities with no local government of their own. Unincorp. covers rural settlements and<br \/>\nformer townsites with no formal boundary today.<\/p>\n<div class=\"tv-table-scroll\">\n<table>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>Place<\/th>\n<th>Type<\/th>\n<th>Pop.<\/th>\n<th>ZIP<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Midland<\/td>\n<td>City &middot; seat<\/td>\n<td>132,524<\/td>\n<td>79701<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Greenwood<\/td>\n<td>Unincorp.<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Spraberry<\/td>\n<td>Unincorp.<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Germania<\/td>\n<td>Unincorp.<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Cotton Flat<\/td>\n<td>Unincorp.<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Warfield<\/td>\n<td>Unincorp.<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p>One name on this list is easy to mix up with a neighboring county. Odessa, Ector County&rsquo;s<br \/>\nseat and the region&rsquo;s second-largest city, extends a small annexed edge across the county<br \/>\nline into western Midland County &mdash; the reverse of Midland&rsquo;s own city limits, which<br \/>\nstay entirely inside Midland County. Odessa&rsquo;s population figures belong to Ector County,<br \/>\nnot this page. Warfield and Cotton Flat no longer function as active communities: Warfield was a<br \/>\nTexas and Pacific Railway flag stop that had shrunk to about twenty residents by 1940 and today<br \/>\nsurvives only as a rail-switch name on maps, and Cotton Flat&rsquo;s 1910s farm-subdivision<br \/>\nschool and church closed decades ago when its district consolidated into Midland ISD.<\/p>\n<h2>ZIP Codes<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>79701 &mdash; Midland (standard delivery)<\/li>\n<li>79703, 79705, 79706, 79707, 79712 &mdash; Midland (standard delivery)<\/li>\n<li>79702, 79704, 79708, 79710, 79711 &mdash; Midland (PO box only)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All eleven ZIP codes assigned to Midland County serve Midland itself; Greenwood, Spraberry,<br \/>\nGermania, Cotton Flat and Warfield have no ZIP code of their own and are delivered under a<br \/>\nMidland code.<\/p>\n<h2>Geography<\/h2>\n<p>Midland County sits on the Southern High Plains of West Texas, in the heart of the Permian<br \/>\nBasin. Of its 902 square miles, 900 are land and 1.8 are water, about 0.2 percent &mdash; the<br \/>\ncounty has no natural lake or major river, and its scattered stock ponds and playas hold what<br \/>\nlittle surface water exists. Much of the county sits atop the Spraberry Trend, an oil field<br \/>\nranked among the largest in the United States by remaining reserves, and Midland ranks first<br \/>\namong Texas counties for oil production.<\/p>\n<p>Martin County lies to the north, Andrews County to the northwest, Ector County to the west,<br \/>\nUpton County to the south, Reagan County to the southeast and Glasscock County to the east.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/martin-county-texas\/\">Martin County<\/a>, <a\nhref=\"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/andrews-county\/\">Andrews County<\/a>, <a\nhref=\"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/ector-county\/\">Ector County<\/a>, <a\nhref=\"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/upton-county\/\">Upton County<\/a>, <a\nhref=\"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/reagan-county\/\">Reagan County<\/a> and <a\nhref=\"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/glasscock-county\/\">Glasscock County<\/a> all border Midland<br \/>\ndirectly.<\/p>\n<h2>Demographics<\/h2>\n<p>Midland County had a population of 169,983 at the 2020 census, and the latest estimate puts<br \/>\nthe county near 187,855 residents by 2025. Midland is by far the largest community, holding<br \/>\nabout 78 percent of the county&rsquo;s population on its own; Greenwood, an unincorporated area<br \/>\nnortheast of the city with its own school district, has grown from roughly 2,000 residents in<br \/>\n2000 to an estimated 3,864 in the 2019&ndash;2023 American Community Survey. Midland&rsquo;s<br \/>\nmedian household income was $90,448 in the 2020 American Community Survey, well above the<br \/>\nTexas statewide figure of $75,780 (2023 ACS). Population density works out to roughly 189<br \/>\npeople per square mile of land, high for West Texas and a reflection of Midland-Odessa&rsquo;s<br \/>\nstatus as the Permian Basin&rsquo;s administrative center.<\/p>\n<h2>Economy &amp; Local Life<\/h2>\n<p>Oil and gas extraction drives the county&rsquo;s economy: Midland County ranks first among<br \/>\nTexas counties for crude oil production and second for natural gas, and the Spraberry Trend<br \/>\noil field underlies much of its land. Midland Independent School District is the county&rsquo;s<br \/>\nlargest employer at 2,919 workers, followed by Midland Memorial Hospital at 1,670, Dawson<br \/>\nGeophysical at 1,244, Walmart at 950 and the City of Midland at 880. The Permian Basin<br \/>\nPetroleum Museum and the Museum of the Southwest, both in Midland, document the region&rsquo;s<br \/>\noil history and host visiting exhibits. The county&rsquo;s best-known annual event is Summer<br \/>\nMummers, a comic-melodrama fundraiser Midland Community Theatre stages each summer at the<br \/>\nYucca Theatre downtown.<\/p>\n<h2>History<\/h2>\n<p>The Texas legislature organized Midland County in 1885 out of land detached from Tom Green<br \/>\nCounty. The site was first platted as Midway, for its position midway between Fort Worth and<br \/>\nEl Paso on the Texas and Pacific Railway, and the name shortened to Midland when the post<br \/>\noffice opened. Herman Garrett is recorded as the county&rsquo;s first permanent settler, arriving<br \/>\nduring the open-range ranching era of the 1870s and 1880s before farming communities such as<br \/>\nGermania and Cotton Flat took hold in the following decades.<\/p>\n<p>Oil transformed the county after 1945, with major production booms in 1947 and again from<br \/>\n1949 to 1952, as companies built their regional headquarters in Midland rather than in the<br \/>\noilfields themselves &mdash; the origin of the city&rsquo;s &ldquo;Tall City&rdquo; skyline.<br \/>\nMidland is also where future presidents George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush spent parts of<br \/>\ntheir childhoods and early careers in the oil business.<\/p>\n<h2>Getting There<\/h2>\n<p>Interstate 20 crosses the county east&ndash;west through Midland, carrying most through<br \/>\ntraffic between Odessa and Big Spring. State Highway 158, State Highway 349 and several farm-<br \/>\nto-market roads serve the county&rsquo;s outlying communities.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Odessa &mdash; about 20 miles west<\/li>\n<li>Big Spring &mdash; about 40 miles east<\/li>\n<li>Lubbock &mdash; about 120 miles north<\/li>\n<li>San Angelo &mdash; about 110 miles south<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Midland International Air and Space Port, on the county&rsquo;s west side near the Ector<br \/>\nCounty line, is the region&rsquo;s commercial airport, with year-round service to major Texas<br \/>\nhubs. Alpine, roughly 150 miles south, has the nearest Amtrak station, served by the Sunset<br \/>\nLimited.<\/p>\n<h2>Frequently Asked Questions<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Where is Midland County located?<\/strong><br \/>\nIt sits on the Southern High Plains of West Texas, in the Permian Basin, bordered by Martin,<br \/>\nAndrews, Ector, Upton, Reagan and Glasscock counties.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is the population of Midland County?<\/strong><br \/>\n169,983 at the 2020 census, with an estimate near 187,855 by 2025.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How big is Midland County?<\/strong><br \/>\n902 square miles (2,340 km2), of which 900 square miles are land.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is the county seat of Midland County?<\/strong><br \/>\nMidland, organized as the seat when the county formed in 1885, is the county&rsquo;s only<br \/>\nincorporated city.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How many towns are in Midland County?<\/strong><br \/>\nOne incorporated city, Midland, plus five unincorporated communities: Greenwood, Spraberry,<br \/>\nGermania, Cotton Flat and Warfield.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What ZIP codes does Midland County use?<\/strong><br \/>\nAll eleven of the county&rsquo;s ZIP codes &mdash; 79701 through 79712, skipping 79709 &mdash;<br \/>\nserve Midland; the county&rsquo;s unincorporated communities use a Midland code.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is Midland County known for?<\/strong><br \/>\nThe Spraberry Trend oil field and its role as the administrative center of the Permian Basin<br \/>\noil industry &mdash; Midland County ranks first among Texas counties for crude oil<br \/>\nproduction.<\/p>\n<p>More counties in this state: <a href=\"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/category\/texas\/\">Towns<br \/>\nand villages in Texas<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Midland County is a county in Texas, United States, about 20 miles east of Odessa on Interstate 20. It had a population of 169,983 at the 2020 census, an estimated 187,855 by 2025, and covers 902 square miles (2,340 km2) centred near 31\u00b053\u2032N 102\u00b001\u2032W. 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