Odessa is a city in Ector and Midland counties in the U.S. state of Texas. It is located primarily in Ector County, which is the county seat. Odessa's population was 96,943 at the 2000 census(though a July 1, 2008 estimate placed the population at 98,801). It is the principal city of the Odessa, Texas Metropolitan Statistical Area, which includes all of Ector County. The metropolitan area is also a component of the larger Midland–Odessa, Texas Co...
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Odessa is a city in Ector and Midland counties in the U.S. state of Texas. It is located primarily in Ector County, which is the county seat. Odessa's population was 96,943 at the 2000 census(though a July 1, 2008 estimate placed the population at 98,801). It is the principal city of the Odessa, Texas Metropolitan Statistical Area, which includes all of Ector County. The metropolitan area is also a component of the larger Midland–Odessa, Texas Combined Statistical Area, which had a population of 261,435 as of July 1, 2008. estimate.
Living with only 13 inches of rain each year, it may be hard to imagine that Ector County was once the bottom of a deep stagnant marine basin full of organisms. But that was about 225 million years ago when conditions were right to create one of the world's largest reservoirs of oil and natural gas right here in Ector County. It took until 1929 to discover the riches under the ground, though people from as far back as 10,000 years ago have tried to make...
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