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Santa Rita, Texas is a ghost town near Brownsville in Cameron County, Texas, United States. [1] It is believed to have been the first government seat in the county in 1848, and perhaps the earliest town to have been named by English-speaking people from the area. [1] Around the late 18th century, this area was a ranching community, even before ...
Santa Rita is a planned community and census-designated place (CDP) in Williamson County, Texas, United States.It was first listed as a CDP during the 2020 census.It sits on 3,100-acres [4] It is in the western part of the county, 11 miles (18 km) west of Georgetown, the county seat, and 6 miles (10 km) northeast of Liberty Hill. [5]
The town was named for the Texon Oil and Land Company, which drilled the first successful oil well in the Permian Basin, the Santa Rita. On December 4, 1928, under the supervision of Carl G. Cromwell, Texon Oil discovered the Santa Rita University 1-B, at that time the world's deepest well at 8,525 feet. Texon Oil and Land Company developed the ...
DUBLIN, Calif. - A 57-year-old man booked on suspicion of a Berkeley homicide has died at Santa Rita Jail, the Alameda County Sheriff's Office said Wednesday. Steve Addison of Oakland died Tuesday ...
The Cortina Troubles is the generic name for the First Cortina War, from 1859 to 1860, and the Second Cortina War, in 1861, in which paramilitary forces led by the Mexican rancher and local leader Juan Cortina, confronted elements of the United States Army, the Confederate States Army, the Texas Rangers, and the local militias of Brownsville, Texas, and Matamoros, Tamaulipas.
Rita Blanca National Grassland. Rita Blanca National Grassland is a National Grassland on the Great Plains near the community of Texline in northwest Dallam County, Texas, in the Texas Panhandle, and in southern Cimarron County, Oklahoma, in the western Oklahoma Panhandle. The principal city in the area is Dalhart, Texas, which houses the XIT ...
In 1921, Texon Oil and Land Company contracted with Cromwell to drill in Reagan County on land owned by the University of Texas. On May 28, 1923, the Santa Rita No. 1 came in and produced great wealth for the University of Texas. Cromwell became drilling superintendent of the Texon Company's expanding field around the camp of Santa Rita.
Santa Rita No. 1 rig, used in the discovery of the Big Lake Oil Field in 1923. Reagan County is a county on the Edwards Plateau in the U.S. state of Texas.As of the 2020 census, its population was 3,385. [1]