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The Great Plains is a broad expanse ... the Great Plains is shown by this map at the Center for Great Plains ... rail heads such as Dodge City, Kansas [54 ...
Description: SVG map of the Great Plains (shaded in green), focusing on its placement within United States borders. The 100th meridian west is marked in red.
File:Blank_US_Map.svg licensed with Cc-by-sa-3.0-migrated, GFDL 2009-11-05T19:44:02Z NuclearVacuum 959x593 (91518 Bytes) minor fix from previous upload 2009-11-05T19:39:42Z NuclearVacuum 959x593 (88399 Bytes) Fixed up the borders so they are connected with each state and loosing that gap between them.
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 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.
A canyon in the Wichita Mountains near Lawton.. Consisting of grassland and gently rolling hills, Southwest Oklahoma is atypical to the rest of the Great Plains region of the United States, as it is less dry than adjacent West Texas and contains many geographic features which further differentiates the unique climate.
The Central Great Plains are a prairie ecoregion of the central United States, part of North American Great Plains. The region runs from west-central Texas through west-central Oklahoma, central Kansas, and south-central Nebraska. It is designated as the Central and Southern Mixed Grasslands ecoregion by the World Wide Fund for Nature.
Ecologically, the EPA includes the Cross Timbers as part of the vast Great Plains, which comprise Level I Ecoregion 9.0, stretching from central Alberta in Canada to northern Mexico. [6] More specifically, the Cross Timbers fall into Level II Ecoregion 9.4, the smaller South Central Semi-Arid Plains. [7]