South Plains Association of Governments

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Location
General Information
Established	June 1967
Number of Counties	15
Area (approx.)	13,756 sq. mi.
Population	377,871 (2000) 383,062 (2006)

Counties served

• Bailey
  Bailey County, Texas
  Bailey County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. As of 2010, the population is 7,165. Its county seat is Muleshoe. Bailey is named for Peter James Bailey, a defender of the Alamo...
  
  
• Cochran
• Crosby
• Dickens
• Floyd
• Garza
  Garza County, Texas
  Garza County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas southeast of Lubbock. In 2000, its population was 4,872. Its county seat is Post. Garza is named for a pioneer Bexar County family, as it was once a part of that county....
  
  
• Hale
  Hale County, Texas
  Hale County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. In 2000, its population was 36,602. It was organized in 1888, and is named for Lt. John C. Hale, a hero of the Battle of San Jacinto. The seat of the county is Plainview. It is home of the noted former Hale County Judge, Judge Bill...
  
  
• Hockley
• King
• Lamb
• Lubbock
• Lynn
• Motley
• Terry
• Yoakum

Largest cities in the region

• Lubbock
  Lubbock, Texas
  Lubbock is a city in and the county seat of Lubbock County, Texas, United States. The city is located in the northwestern part of the state, a region known historically as the Llano Estacado, and the home of Texas Tech University and Lubbock Christian University...
  
  
• Plainview
  Plainview, Texas
  Plainview is a city in and the county seat of Hale County, Texas, United States. The population was 22,336 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Plainview is located at ....
  
  
• Levelland
  Levelland, Texas
  Levelland is a city in Hockley County, Texas, in the United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 13,542. It is the county seat of Hockley County. It is located on the Llano Estacado, west of Lubbock. Major industries include cotton farming and petroleum production...
  
  
• Brownfield
  Brownfield, Texas
  Brownfield is a city in Terry County, Texas, United States. The population was 8,940 at the 2009 census. It is the county seat of Terry County near Lubbock in West Texas.-Geography:...
  
  
• Littlefield
  Littlefield, Texas
  Littlefield is a city in and the county seat of Lamb County, Texas, United States. The population was 6,507 at the 2000 census. It is located in a significant cotton growing region, northwest of Lubbock on the Llano Estacado just south of the beginning of the Texas Panhandle...
  
  
• Slaton
  Slaton, Texas
  Slaton is a city in Lubbock County, Texas, United States. The population was 6,109 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Lubbock Metropolitan Statistical Area.Slaton is named for Lubbock rancher and banker O.L. Slaton, Sr...
  
  
• Muleshoe
  Muleshoe, Texas
  Muleshoe is a small city in Bailey County, Texas, United States. The town of Muleshoe was founded in 1913 when the Pecos and Northern Texas Railway built an line from Farwell, Texas to Lubbock through northern Bailey County. In 1926, Muleshoe was incorporated. The population was 5,158 at the 2010...
  
  

External links

• South Plains Association of Governments - Official site.