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The Panhandle Regional Planning Commission (PRPC) is a voluntary association of cities, counties and special districts in the Texas Panhandle. Based in Amarillo , the Panhandle Regional Planning Commission is a member of the Texas Association of Regional Councils .
The Handbook of Texas defines the southern border of Swisher County as the southern boundary of the Texas Panhandle region. Its land area is 25,823.89 sq mi (66,883.58 km 2), or nearly 10% of the state's total. The Texas Panhandle is slightly larger in size than the US state of West Virginia.
Area 1: Panhandle/High Plains Wildlife District [1] [2] includes five WMAs; Area 2: Prairies and Lakes [3] Area 3: Pineywoods [4] Area 4: Gulf Coast [5] Area 5: South Texas Plains [6] Area 6: Hill Country [7] Area 7: Big Bend Country [8] There is some confusion as there are also listed eight Wildlife Management Areas [9] that roughly coincide ...
The fire has burned over 1 million acres in six counties in the Texas Panhandle, including Hutchinson, Roberts, Hemphill, Wheeler, Gray and Carson, according to a Forest Service map.
The organization held yearly Texas Plains Trail Roundup events starting in 2009 with the inaugural event happening in Plainview on August 11, 2009. [23] In 2010, the group coordinated with the United States Postal Service and counties in the region to sponsor Special Pictorial Stamp Cancellations for each week of the year. Individuals could ...
Located in Canadian, Texas, where dozens of fires are burning, is the Citadelle Art Museum & Mansion, a landmark that was built in 1910 as the First Baptist Church.
Cotton is the most common crop grown in South Plains region. In 2004 and again in 2005, records were broken for cotton production. [1] In an extended area comprising 31 counties in and near the South Plains, more than a million bales of cotton were harvested in 2005.
Historic wildfires have decimated well over a million acres of land in the Texas panhandle. Here are some of the most compelling images.