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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]
The U.S. state of Texas is divided into 254 counties, more than any other U.S. state. [1] While only about 20% of Texas counties are generally located within the Houston—Dallas—San Antonio—Austin areas, they serve a majority of the state's population with approximately 22,000,000 inhabitants.
Texas population density map. As of May 2024, the 1,225 Texas municipalities [3] [a] include 971 cities, 231 towns, and 23 villages.These designations are determined by United States Census Bureau requirements based on state statutes and may not match a municipality's self-reported designation. [4]
Grand Prairie is a city in the U.S. state of Texas, located in Dallas, Tarrant, and Ellis counties with a small part extending into Johnson county. [6] It is part of the Mid-Cities region in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex .
A much wider band than the Eastern Cross Timbers, the Western Cross Timbers band extends from far southern Oklahoma, including parts of Love and Carter counties, into central Texas, where it covers large parts of Montague, Young, Jack, Wise, Stephens, Palo Pinto, Parker, Eastland, Erath, Brown, San Saba, and Mills counties, as well as smaller ...
Williams Prairie, a 10-acre (40,000 m2) remnant prairie preserve west of Houston in Waller County, Texas, USA. The ecoregion covers an area of 77,425 km 2 (29,894 sq mi), extending along the shore of the Gulf of Mexico from southeastern Louisiana (west of the Mississippi Delta) through Texas and into the Mexican state of Tamaulipas as far as the Laguna Madre.
47,609 are located in Montgomery County, 59,746 acres in San Jacinto County, and 54,153 acres in Walker County. Operated under a memorandum of agreement with the US Forest Service. [55] Area 3 Sierra Diablo WMA Hudspeth County and Culberson County: 11,625 acres Acquired in 1945 as a sanctuary for the last remaining desert bighorn sheep in Texas ...
The Texas Triangle is a region of Texas that contains the state's five largest cities and is home to over half of the state's population. The Texas Triangle is formed by the state's four main urban centers, Austin, Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston, and San Antonio, connected by Interstate 45, Interstate 10, and Interstate 35.