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A drawing of Lon Hill in 1912 Harlingen in 1927 Harlingen's Jackson Street in the late 1950s. Harlingen's strategic location at the intersection of U.S. Route 77 and U.S. Route 83, codesignated as Interstate 69 East and Interstate 2, respectively, in northwestern Cameron County, fostered its development as a distribution, shipping, and industrial center.
The Perry–Castañeda Library Map Collection is an extensive map collection owned by the Perry–Castañeda Library at The University of Texas at Austin. [1] Many of the maps in the collection have been scanned and are available online, and most of these maps are public domain. [2] The collection includes maps of special interest: Afghanistan
While only about 20% of Texas counties are generally located within the Houston—Dallas—San Antonio—Austin areas, they serve a majority of the state's population with approximately 22,000,000 inhabitants. Texas was originally divided into municipalities (municipios in Spanish), a unit of local government under Spanish and Mexican rule.
A map of the United States of America with the state of Texas highlighted. Texas is a state located in the Southern United States. As of the 2020 census, [1] 29,145,505 (95.55%) of the 30,503,301 residents of Texas lived in a municipality in the 2023 estimate. [2]
The Edwards Plateau is a geographic region forming the crossroads of Central, South and West Texas, United States.It is named in honor of Haden Edwards. [2] It is bounded by the Balcones Fault to the south and east; the Llano Uplift and the Llano Estacado to the north; and the Pecos River and Chihuahuan Desert to the west. [3]
The Texas panhandle is a region of the U.S. state of Texas consisting of the northernmost 26 counties in the state. The panhandle is a square-shaped area bordered by New Mexico to the west and Oklahoma to the north and east. It is adjacent to the Oklahoma Panhandle, land which Texas previously claimed.
Harmelen is on the railway line between Utrecht and Woerden; its train station was opened on 21 May 1855 and closed on 15 May 1936. [2] In 1962, two passenger trains collided near Harmelen. The Harmelen train disaster , resulting in 93 fatalities, was the largest train accident in Dutch history.
English: This is a locator map showing Harris County in Texas. David Benbennick made this map. For more information, see Commons:United States county locator maps.