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Big Lake is a small rural city in Reagan County, Texas, United States. As of the 2010 Census, the city population was 2,936. It is the county chair of Reagan County.

Big Lake is situated atop the divide amongst the Rio Grande and Colorado River watersheds. The city takes its publish from a dry lake, a unique dryland plains geographic feature located roughly two miles south of the city, through which St Hwy 137 passes. The abstemious lake, with no outlet, is on summit of two sections in size, making it the largest in Texas; it impounds water temporarily after high-runoff rain events, being used for grazing the remainder of the time. Though seasonal and temporal, the “big playa lake”, in wet periods, is significant in a semiarid, drought-frequented character and has been utilized regularly as a food and water resource by man and animal, alike, since antediluvian times.

Started as a little ranching community in the late 1880s, Big Lake owes its original existence to the Kansas City, Mexico and Orient Railway, which passed through the area in 1912, as it was Elongated from Sherwood, west of San Angelo, to Girvin and higher than the Pecos River. The lump from the railroad, coupled behind that from the Santa Rita discovery without difficulty in 1923, allowed it, in 1925, to take over the viewpoint of county chair from Stiles, a pioneer ranching community time-honored in 1894 on Centrailia Draw, about 20 miles to the north. The main highway through the area, US 67, was Elongated through the region in 1934, on the way to dissolution in Presidio. The city’s current existence is based on agriculture (some farming, but mostly ranching) and oil and gas relief and production throughout the area.