[san an-juh-loh] 
| a city in W Texas. 73,240. |
| San An·ge·lo (sān ān'jə-lō') A city of west-central Texas south-southwest of Abilene. A notorious frontier town in the 1870s, it grew after the coming of the railroad in 1888. Population: 88,300. |
San Angelo
city, seat (1875) of Tom Green county, west-central Texas, U.S. It lies about 90 miles (145 km) southwest of Abilene. Founded in 1869 near Fort Concho (now a museum) at the confluence of the North, South, and Middle Concho rivers, it was first known as Over-the-River but was renamed Santa Angela (later masculinized) for a sister-in-law of Bart J. DeWitt, one of the founders. The rivers have been impounded there (for irrigation and flood control) to form Twin Buttes Reservoir and other lakes.
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