About Howard College

Howard College is a community instructor with its main campus in gigantic Spring, Texas and branch campuses in San Angelo and Lamesa.

Big Spring is a city in and the county chair 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, it is the largest city amid Midland to the west, Abilene to the east, Lubbock to the north, and San Angelo to the south. Big Spring was normal as the county chair of Howard County in 1882; it is the largest community in the county.

The city took its make known from the single, large spring that issued into a little gorge surrounded by the base of Scenic Mountain and a next to hill in the southwestern ration of the city limits. Although the make known is sometimes still mistakenly pluralized, it is officially singular. “To the original or normal residents who may wince at the plural in vast Spring, it should be explained that until about 1916, when for some unexplained explanation the say dropped the final ‘s’, the attributed name of the town was indeed Big Springs.”