IKE's boyhood home was Abilene, a city in Texas. Abilene is the county seat of Taylor County and is located off Interstate 20, approximately 180 miles west of Dallas and 150 miles east of Midland. It is the principal city of the Abilene Metropolitan Statistical Area, which had a 2017 estimated population of 170, 219. Abilene is the largest of the three principal cities of the Abilene-Sweetwater Combined Statistical Area, which had a 2017 estimated population of 317, 845.