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The history of Europeans around Lubbock dates back to the 1540s when Spanish explorer Francisco Vásquez de Coronado named the High Plains of Texas Llano Estacado (Staked Plain). At the time the land was occupied by Apache, Comanche, and Kiowa peoples. European settlement took root in 1879 when a small group of Quakers arrived. The community of Lubbock was established beginning in 1890 after the existing towns of Lubbock and Monterey agreed to merge and move to the nearby location. It incorporated as a city in 1909. The city is named for Tom S. Lubbock, a signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence and for a time a Texas Ranger. In 1995 a federal commission announced that the nearby Reese Air Force Base, which had trained thousands of military pilots, was to be closed as part of a federal base-consolidation program.

Lubbock covers a land area of 115 sq mi, with a mean elevation of 3,202 ft. According to the 2000 census, whites are 72.9 percent of the population, blacks 8.7 percent, Asians 1.5 percent, and Native Americans 0.6 percent. Native Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders represent less than 0.1 percent of the population. The remainder are of mixed heritage or did not report ethnicity.

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