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Odessa, Texas. Counties or equivalents associated with this area: Ector. Associated ZIP codes: 79760, 79761, 79762, 79763, 79764, 79765, 79766, 79768, 79769.
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Police laid out rows of empty Bud Light and Michelob Ultra bottles in a grid, removed from a tractor-trailer in Bow, after the driver was arrested on suspici...
Odessa firefighter/paramedic Eric Handlin suffered a head injury on-duty last month.
An Amber Alert has been issued for 11-month-old Maverick Young, missing from Odessa, TX since June 30. Authorities believe he is with 20-year-old Tinley Young.
Odessa Fire Rescue Lt. Isai Huerta was injured during the rapid deterioration of fire conditions at a trailer fire.
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Two Texas men who held a Grant family at gunpoint for nine hours and stole $8 million in cryptocurrency from them were sentenced to at least 15 years each in...
Christopher Joughin, 31, of the United Kingdom, was a student pilot on a Robinson R22 helicopter on Thursday. He was flying with his instructor, 22-year-old...
The NM State swimming and diving team opened its home slate with a 133-110 victory over North Texas on Friday evening at The Beast - Eastside Regional Recrea...
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Odessa is in Ector County, Texas.
Region: West Texas
79760, 79761, 79762, 79763, 79764, 79765, 79766, 79768, 79769
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Two Texas men who held a Grant family at gunpoint for nine hours and stole $8 million in cryptocurrency from them were sentenced to at least 15 years each in...
Christopher Joughin, 31, of the United Kingdom, was a student pilot on a Robinson R22 helicopter on Thursday. He was flying with his instructor, 22-year-old...
The NM State swimming and diving team opened its home slate with a 133-110 victory over North Texas on Friday evening at The Beast - Eastside Regional Recrea...
Odessa was founded in 1881 as a water stop and cattle-shipping point on the Texas and Pacific Railway. It is said to have been named for Odessa in the Russian Empire, now Odesa in Ukraine, by Russian workers building the railroad, who thought the shortgrass prairie looked like the steppes of home.
The first post office opened in 1885, and Odessa became the seat of Ector County when the county was organized in 1891. It was incorporated as a city in 1927, after oil was discovered on the Connell Ranch southwest of town. The Penn Field opened in 1929 and the Cowden Field in 1930, and oil drew new residents fast. The population grew from about 750 in 1925 to about 5,000 by 1929. Odessa lies on the southwestern edge of the Llano Estacado, above the Permian Basin, whose deep sediments hold large reserves of oil and natural gas. Through the rest of the 20th century and into the 21st, the city grew quickly in each oil boom, roughly from the 1930s to the 1950s, in the 1970s and in the 2010s, and shrank in the busts that followed, especially in the 1960s and 1980s. Sources Wikipedia: Odessa, Texas
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