In 1925, the population was just 750 by 1929, it had risen to 5,000. With the opening of the Penn Field in 1929, and the Cowden Field in 1930, oil became a major draw for new residents. It was incorporated as a city in 1927, after oil was discovered in Ector County on the Connell Ranch southwest of Odessa. Odessa became the county seat of Ector County in 1891 when the county was first organized. Odessa was founded in 1881 as a water stop and cattle-shipping point on the Texas and Pacific Railway. Odessa is said to have been named after Odessa, Ukraine, because of the local shortgrass prairie's resemblance to Ukraine's steppe landscape. 8.1.2 Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center.8.1.1 University of Texas of the Permian Basin.Bush has been quoted as saying "At Odessa we became Texans and proud of it." In 1948 Odessa was also the home of First Lady Barbara Bush, and the onetime home of former Presidents George H.
In 2014, Forbes magazine ranked Odessa as the third-fastest-growing small city in the United States. The metropolitan area is also a component of the larger Midland–Odessa combined statistical area, which had a 2010 census population of 278,801 a recent report from the United States Census Bureau estimates that the combined population as of July 2015 is 320,513. Odessa's population was 114,428 at the 2020 census, making it the 28th-most populous city in Texas It is the principal city of the Odessa metropolitan statistical area, which includes all of Ector County. It is located primarily in Ector County, although a small section of the city extends into Midland County. Odessa / ˌ oʊ ˈ d ɛ s ə/ is a city in and the county seat of Ector County, Texas, United States.
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