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The Smoky Hills region is part of the Plains Border subregion of the Great Plains. [1] It occupies nearly all of north-central Kansas, bordered on the west by the High Plains, on the northeast by the Dissected Till Plains, on the east by the Flint Hills, and on the south by the Arkansas River lowlands. [2]
The area is sometimes called the Lower Plains, North Central Plains,or Rolling Plains. [2] The Osage Plains, covering west-central Missouri , the southeastern third of Kansas , most of central Oklahoma , and extending into north-central Texas , is the southernmost of three tallgrass prairie physiographic areas.
The High Plains ecology region is designated by 25 on this map. Childress County, Texas, June 1938.. The High Plains are a subregion of the Great Plains, mainly in the Western United States, but also partly in the Midwest states of Nebraska, Kansas, and South Dakota, generally encompassing the western part of the Great Plains before the region reaches the Rocky Mountains.
The Llano Estacado (Spanish: [ˈʝano estaˈkaðo]), sometimes translated into English as the Staked Plains, [2] is a region in the Southwestern United States that encompasses parts of eastern New Mexico and northwestern Texas.
The Great Plains near a farming community in central Kansas. The region is about 500 mi (800 km) east to west and 2,000 mi (3,200 km) north to south. Much of the region was home to American bison herds until they were hunted to near extinction during the mid/late-19th
Around 85% of the Driftless Area lies within Wisconsin, comprising much of the southwestern quarter of the state. The border is defined by the catchment of the Chippewa River on the north, and somewhat west (or east, depending on if the southwestern portion of Wisconsin's Central Plain is included) of the north-south line of the Wisconsin River.
The heat continued unabated on Wednesday, but there was a brief break in the storminess farther to the north. However, the first sign Severe, flooding threats to persist in north-central US
In the central portion of the great North American Continent there lies an arid and repulsive desert, which for many a long year served as a barrier against the advance of civilisation. From the Sierra Nevada to Nebraska, and from the Yellowstone River in the north to the Colorado upon the south, is a region of desolation and silence.