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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.
High Plains Drifter is a 1973 American Western film directed by Clint Eastwood, written by Ernest Tidyman, and produced by Robert Daley for The Malpaso Company and Universal Pictures. The film stars Eastwood as a mysterious stranger who metes out justice in a corrupt frontier mining town. [ 4 ]
The High Plains region is mostly semi-arid grassland and steppe. Today much of the region supports agriculture through the use of aquifer water irrigation, but in the 19th century, the area's relative lack of water and wood made it seem unfit for settler farming. [5]
Much of the southern High Plains, including the Texas Panhandle, saw temperatures nosedive over 40 degrees in a few minutes. Amarillo, Texas, went from a high of 70 degrees to a low of 13 that day.
A wall of snow will push southward across the Rockies and High Plains as the coldest air of the season so far sweeps southward this weekend, AccuWeather meteorologists say. The combination of ...
This ecoregion largely corresponds with the geographical region known as the High Plains.It is located in southeastern Wyoming, western Nebraska (the Nebraska Panhandle), eastern Colorado, western Kansas, western Oklahoma (the Oklahoma Panhandle), eastern New Mexico, the Texas Panhandle and parts of west-central Texas and a very small portion of southwestern South Dakota.
Before that the region was almost invariably called the High Plains, in contrast to the lower Prairie Plains of the Midwestern states. [7] Today the term "High Plains" is used for a subregion of the Great Plains. [8] The term still remains little-used in Canada compared to the more common "prairie".
The Ogallala Aquifer (oh-gə-LAH-lə) is a shallow water table aquifer surrounded by sand, silt, clay, and gravel located beneath the Great Plains in the United States. As one of the world's largest aquifers, it underlies an area of approximately 174,000 sq mi (450,000 km 2) in portions of eight states (South Dakota, Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Texas). [1]