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Seminole Canyon State Park and Historic Site is a state park in the U.S. state of Texas. It is located off U.S. Route 90, east of the Pecos River High Bridge, 9 miles (14 km) west of Comstock in Val Verde County. The park is conducive to camping, biking, bird watching, back packing and archeological study.
[10] The Precambrian rocks atop North Franklin Mountain are "the highest geological structure in the state of Texas." [11] The highest peak is North Franklin Mountain at 7,192 feet (2,192 m). North Franklin Peak can be accessed via a trail located east of Mundy's Gap. The mountains are composed primarily of sedimentary rock with some igneous ...
One of the best developed, least disturbed natural shortgrass climax communities remaining in the Great Plains. Part of Buffalo Lake National Wildlife Refuge. Independence Creek Preserve: 2024 Terrell: private [1] [2] Little Blanco River Bluff: 1982: Blanco: private An unspoiled example of the limestone bluff communities of the Edwards Plateau ...
Ransom Canyon is a town in Lubbock County of West Texas, United States. [1] The population was 1,189 at the 2020 census . [ 3 ] It is part of the Lubbock Metropolitan Statistical Area .
The Texas Panhandle is a region of the U.S. state of Texas consisting of the northernmost 26 counties in the state. The panhandle is a rectangular area bordered by New Mexico to the west and Oklahoma to the north and east. The Handbook of Texas defines the southern border of Swisher County to be the southern boundary of the Texas Panhandle region.
Downtown Canyon. Canyon is a city in, and the county seat of, Randall County, Texas, United States. The population was 14,836 at the 2020 census. [5] It is part of the Amarillo, Texas, metropolitan statistical area. Canyon is the home of the Panhandle–Plains Historical Museum, and the outdoor musical drama Texas.
The demand for new routes from Texas to California caused an uptick in explorations. [12] The San Antonio-to-El Paso leg of the San Antonio-California Trail was surveyed in 1848 under the direction of John Coffee Hays. Texas Commissioner Robert Simpson Neighbors [13] was sent by Governor Peter Hansborough Bell in 1850 to organize El Paso.
West Texas is often subdivided according to distinct physiographic features. The portion of West Texas that lies west of the Pecos River is often called "Far West Texas" or the "Trans-Pecos", a term introduced in 1887 by geologist Robert T. Hill. [4] The Trans-Pecos lies within the Chihuahuan Desert and is the aridest part of the state.