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Forsan is a tiny oil-born city in southeastern Howard County, Texas, located on FM 461 about 12 miles southeast of Big Spring.

Forsan exists because of oil — production from the area's first oil well began on November 9, 1925, after oil companies started leasing local ranch land.

The townsite was laid out on the ranch of Clayton Stewart and lots went on the market on May 28, 1928, selling for twenty-five dollars each.

Forsan's unusual name comes from the 'four sands' — drillers believed four paying oil sands lay under the area, though they later discovered there were actually at least five.

Forsan got its post office on March 5, 1929, and as a true oil boomtown it already had about 350 residents and twenty-five businesses by 1931.

The oil economy cushioned Forsan through the Great Depression, and its population actually grew to about 400 by 1936.

Forsan incorporated in the early 1960s, electing its first mayor and city council on March 25, 1961.

The 2020 census counted 225 people in Forsan, making it one of the smallest incorporated cities in Howard County; back in 2000 it had 226 people in 84 households.

The whole city covers only about 0.3 square miles of West Texas plains, at an elevation of roughly 2,780 feet.