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At some 825,000 acres (3,340 km 2; 1,289 sq mi) [3] it is larger than both the land area of Rhode Island and the area of the European country Luxembourg. [4] It is mainly a cattle ranch, but also produced the racehorse Assault, who won the Triple Crown in 1946. The headquarters of the King Ranch are in an office building in Houston, Texas. [5]
Around 4,000 acres will be returned to grassland prairie and the remaining land is under a five-year plan to be returned to the State Parks division for a future state park. [51] Redhead Pond Nueces County: 20 acres Located in Flour Bluff. Approximately 10 acres of marsh with a 10-acre pond and observation platform. Also known as Redhead Pond ...
"A league and a labor" (4,605.5 acres; 18.638 km 2) was a common first land grant [4] and consisted of a league of land away from the river plus one extra labor of good riparian (river-situated) land. A headright of this much land was granted to "all persons [heads of families] except Africans and their descendants and Indians living in Texas ...
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.
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AUSTIN (KXAN) — More than 5,700 acres have burned in wildfires across Central Texas so far in 2024, according to the Texas A&M Forest Service. A total of 28 fires have burned 5,710.1 acres in ...
Google Maps' location-tracking feature, known as Timeline, is undergoing a major update. Previously, Google announced plans to shift this data to local storage. Now, the company is sending out ...
The ranch is located west of Wichita Falls, Texas, south of Vernon, near the Red River. [6] Other towns nearby include Electra and Seymour. [6] It encloses 520,527 acres (211,000 ha; 813 sq mi; 2,110 km 2) of land. [4] It is the second-largest ranch in Texas, after the King Ranch. [6] It spans six counties [4] [6] and is half as large as Rhode ...