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The Central Great Plains are a prairie ecoregion of the central United States, part of North American Great Plains. The region runs from west-central Texas through west-central Oklahoma, central Kansas, and south-central Nebraska. It is designated as the Central and Southern Mixed Grasslands ecoregion by the World Wide Fund for Nature.
The geography of Texas is diverse and large. Occupying about 7% of the total water and land area of the U.S., [1] it is the second largest state after Alaska, and is the southernmost part of the Great Plains, which end in the south against the folded Sierra Madre Oriental of Mexico.
Central Texas is a region in the U.S. state of Texas roughly bordered on the west by San Saba to the southeast by Bryan and the south by San Marcos to the north by Hillsboro. Central Texas overlaps with and includes part of the Texas Hill Country and corresponds to a physiographic section designation within the Edwards Plateau , in a geographic ...
The Northern Plains' climate is semi-arid and is prone to drought, annually receiving between 16 and 32 inches (410 and 810 mm) of precipitation, and average annual snowfall ranging between 15 and 30 inches (380 and 760 mm), with the greatest snowfall amounts occurring in the Texas panhandle and areas near the border with New Mexico.
Both the U.S. Census Bureau and Centers for Disease and Control have categorized Texas as West South Central and South. ... Panhandle and South Plains: Great Plains. North Texas: South. East Texas ...
The East Central Texas forests or East Central Texas Plains (33) is a small temperate broadleaf and mixed forests ecoregion almost entirely within the state of Texas, United States. [1] The northern forests perimeter is partially within the southeast Oklahoma border.
Saline lake beds, and shortgrass grama grasslands characteristic of the high plains. Odessa Meteor Crater: 1965: Ector: county Contains two meteorite impact craters. The largest is 550 feet (170 m) in diameter. Palo Duro Canyon State Park
A tornado watch was issued for parts of Texas and Oklahoma until 5 a.m. local time Tuesday, with nearly 3 million people affected. Winds up to 70 mph and hail up to 1.5 inches in diameter are also ...