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Monahans is a city in West Texas and the county seat of Ward County, located at Interstate 20 and Farm Road 18 about 35 miles southwest of Odessa in the Permian Basin.

Monahans is named for John Thomas 'Pat' Monahan, an Irish immigrant who dug the first water well at the edge of the sandhills in 1881; the spot was first known as Monahan's Well, and the Texas and Pacific Railway established a station there the same year.

Monahans boomed after the Hendrick oilfield opened nearby in 1926 and incorporated in 1928, and in 1938 voters moved the Ward County seat from Barstow to Monahans.

Monahans is the gateway to Monahans Sandhills State Park, a 3,840-acre park opened in 1957 where sand dunes rise as high as 70 feet and one of North America's largest oak forests, of shinny (Havard) oaks, grows in the sand; the state holds the land on a lease running until 2056.

Monahans had 7,836 residents in the 2020 census, down from its oil-boom peak of 8,567 in 1960.

Monahans has about 2,873 households according to Census Bureau figures for 2020-2024, averaging 2.55 persons per household with an owner-occupied housing rate of about 73%.

Monahans serves as the shopping and services hub for more than 800 square miles of surrounding oil and cattle country in Ward County.