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Jasper is a city in and the county seat of Jasper County, Texas, United States. [5] Its population was 6,884 at the 2020 U.S. Census , [ 6 ] down from 7,590 at the 2010 U.S. Census . Jasper is situated in the Deep East Texas subregion, about 40 miles (64 km) west of the Texas-Louisiana state line.
Texas Butterfly Festival. Where: National Butterfly Center — 3333 Butterfly Park, Mission. When: Oct. 29 to Nov. 1. Price: $355 per member and $395 for non-members.
The proposed US–Mexico border wall is slated to pass through the grounds of the National Butterfly Center. [7] [8] Filmmaker Krista Schlyer, part of an all-woman team creating a documentary film about the butterflies and the border wall, Ay Mariposa, [9] estimates that construction would put "70 percent of the preserve habitat behind the border wall."
Jasper County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 census, its population was 32,980. [1] Its county seat is Jasper. [2] The county was created as a municipality in Mexico in 1834, and in 1837 was organized as a county in the Republic of Texas. [3] [4] [5] It is named for William Jasper, an American Revolutionary War ...
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The Waterman "Butterfly" World Map is a map projection created by Steve Waterman. Waterman first published a map in this arrangement in 1996. The arrangement is an unfolding of a polyhedral globe with the shape of a truncated octahedron, evoking the butterfly map principle first developed by Bernard J.S. Cahill (1866–1944) in 1909
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A 1967 Jasper Johns painting, Map (Based on Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion Airocean World), depicting a Dymaxion map, hangs in the permanent collection of the Museum Ludwig in Cologne. [12] [13] The World Game, a collaborative simulation game in which players attempt to solve world problems, [14] [15] is played on a 70-by-35-foot Dymaxion map. [16]