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A sod farm structure in Iceland Saskatchewan sod house, circa 1900 Unusually well appointed interior of a sod house, North Dakota, 1937. The sod house or soddy [1] was a common alternative to the log cabin during frontier settlement of the Great Plains of Canada and the United States in the 1800s and early 1900s. [2]
Sod is grown on specialist farms. For 2009, the United States Department of Agriculture reported 1,412 farms had 368,188 acres (149,000.4 ha) of sod in production. [9]It is usually grown locally (within 100 miles of the target market) [10] to minimize both the cost of transport and also the risk of damage to the product.
Farm to Market Road 2696 (FM 2696) is a 16-mile (26 km) farm to market road in Bexar County, Texas. [1] It is known in Greater San Antonio as Blanco Road , a major north–south thoroughfare. [ 1 ]
The route was first designated on June 11, 1945, as Farm to Market Road 337 (FM 337), traveling from Camp Wood to Leakey. [7] It was redesignated RM 337 on October 1, 1956. On October 31, 1957, it was extended 6.5 miles (10.5 km) eastward, and on September 27, 1960, the route was extended another 3 miles (4.8 km) eastward.
Farm to Market Road 1560 (FM 1560) is located in the Greater San Antonio area. The highway runs from FM 471 in extreme west San Antonio to Loop 1604 near the main campus of UTSA. FM 1560 begins at an intersection with FM 471 in western San Antonio, near Loop 1604. The highway runs through rural areas of Bexar County to SH 16 in Helotes. The two ...
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Kerrville is located in eastern Kerr County. Via Interstate 10, it is 65 miles (105 km) northwest of San Antonio and 52 miles (84 km) southeast of Junction. Texas State Highway 16 (Sidney Baker Street) is the main road through the center of Kerrville.