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The Texas panhandle is a region of the U.S. state of Texas consisting of the northernmost 26 counties in the state. ... the level terrain gives way to Palo Duro ...
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.
Palo Duro Canyon is a canyon system of the Caprock Escarpment located in the Texas Panhandle near the cities of Amarillo and Canyon. [2] The second largest canyon system in the United States, it is roughly 25–40 mi (40–64 km) long and has an average width of 6 mi (9.7 km), but reaches a width of 20 mi (32 km) at places.
Much of the Texas Panhandle terrain has burned, leaving hay in short supply, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said in a news conference in Canadian on Tuesday. Also starting Thursday, a Disaster Loan ...
Texas has been the leading state in petroleum production since discovery of the Spindletop oil field in 1901. [11] As of October 2017, the State of Texas (if treated as its own nation) is the 7th largest oil producing nation in the world, with production totaling approximately 3.78 million barrels (600 thousand cubic meters ) per day of oil ...
Several wildfires are ravaging the Texas panhandle, burning more than a million acres of land — almost the size of the Grand Canyon — northeast of Amarillo, according to the Texas A&M Forest ...
As of 6 p.m. Tuesday, the Smokehouse Creek Fire in the Panhandle was still 1,058,482 acres and 89% contained, while the Windy Deuce fire was 144,045 acres and 94% contained, according to the TAMFS ...
The Prairies and Pineywoods Wildlife Trail is a state-designated system of trails and wildlife sanctuaries in the Texas Panhandle in the United States. It is one of the four major wildlife trail systems designated by the State of Texas. The trail system consists of two separate groups of rails.