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Plantations and Plantation houses — in Texas. Subcategories. This category has the following 3 subcategories, out of 3 total. C. Cotton plantations in Texas (7 P) H.
Texas has been the leading state in petroleum production since discovery of the Spindletop oil field in 1901. [11] As of October 2017, the State of Texas (if treated as its own nation) is the 7th largest oil producing nation in the world, with production totaling approximately 3.78 million barrels (600 thousand cubic meters ) per day of oil ...
Devils River State Natural Area is a 37,000-acre (15,000 ha) section of three ecosystems, the Edwards Plateau, the Tamaulipan mezquital and the Chihuahuan Desert.It is located 66 miles (106 km) north of Del Rio, Val Verde County in the U.S. state of Texas. [2]
Day, James M. (1964) Maps of Texas, 1527-1900: The Map Collections of the Texas State Archives, Austin: The Pemberton Press, pp. 13, 15–18, 20, 23, 25, 32 Taliaferro, Henry G.; Jane A. Kenamore and Uli Haller (1988) Cartographic Sources in the Rosenberg Library , Category:College Station, Texas : Texas A&M University Press for the Rosenberg ...
The Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge is a 90,788-acre (367.41 km 2) [2] National Wildlife Refuge located in the Lower Rio Grande Valley region of southern Texas. It is along the northern banks and reaches of the Lower Rio Grande, north of the Mexico—United States international border.
The Texas Blackland Prairies are a temperate grassland ecoregion located in Texas that runs roughly 300 miles (480 km) from the Red River in North Texas to San Antonio in the south. The prairie was named after its rich, dark soil. [3] Less than 1% of the original Blackland prairie vegetation remains, scattered across Texas in parcels. [4]
There were about 1,000 to 2,500 trees per acre, which equated to about 300,000 apple trees in the community. They produced 100 tons of apples in 1990 and more orchards were planted in later years. Medina was declared to be the Apple Capital of Texas by the Texas Department of Agriculture in 1989. That next year, Medina introduced the Medina ...
Dermatophyllum secundiflorum is a species of flowering shrub or small tree in the family Fabaceae [2] that is native to the Southwestern United States (Texas, New Mexico) and Mexico (Chihuahua and Coahuila south to Hidalgo, Puebla, and Querétaro). [3] Its common names include Texas mountain laurel, Texas mescalbean, frijolito, and frijolillo. [2]