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The Texas Land Survey System is often measured in Spanish Customary Units. The most important of these is the vara, which, while ambiguous in the past, was legally established to be exactly 33 + 1 ⁄ 3 inches (846.67 mm) long in June 1919. [2] The subdivision levels in Texas are as follows: [3]
(Furlongs remained the same, but the rod changed from 15 old feet to 16 1 ⁄ 2 new feet. [ 10 ] ) In 1324 Edward II systematized units of length by defining the inch as 3 barleycorns, the foot as 12 inches, the yard as 3 feet, the perch as 5 1 ⁄ 2 yards, and the acre as an area 4 by 40 perches. [ 2 ]
Production grew from 300 million board feet (710,000 m 3) annually in 1879 to 2,250 million board feet (5,300,000 m 3) in 1907, the maximum the state has ever produced. Texas became the third leading lumber-producing state in the U.S. [1] [2] World War I only increased this demand as pine-built ships were common at this time. [1]
Texas has an annual precipitation range from 60.57 inches (1,538 mm) in Jasper County, East Texas, to 9.43 inches (240 mm) in El Paso. The record high of 120 °F (49 °C) was reached at Seymour on 12 August 1936, and Monahans on 28 June 1994. The low also ties at −23 °F (−31 °C) in Tulia on 12 February 1899, and Seminole on 8 February 1933.
Under the Harappan linear measures, Indus cities during the Bronze Age used a foot of 13.2 inches (335 mm) and a cubit of 20.8 inches (528 mm). [11] The Egyptian equivalent of the foot—a measure of four palms or 16 digits—was known as the djeser and has been reconstructed as about 30 cm (11.8 in).
At 8:31 p.m. CST on May 4, the sheriff's office notified West Central Texas residents "up to 3 feet of hail" had fallen between the town of Millersview and O.H. Ivie Reservoir, a distance spanning ...
The actual size of the drive bays differ from their name (e.g., 3 1 ⁄ 2" drive bays are actually 4 inches (101.6 mm) wide, because 3 1 ⁄ 2" refers to the historical platter diameter inside the drive). The newer 2 1 ⁄ 2 inch and 1.8 inch drive bays are specified in
Top weather news for Thursday, Feb. 20, 2025: Millions of people across the U.S. are on alert for dangerously cold temperatures in the wake of a deadly winter storm that raced … USA TODAY 8 ...