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  2. Texas Gulf Coast - Wikipedia

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    Texas Gulf Coast is an intertidal zone which borders the coastal region of South Texas, Southeast Texas, and the Texas Coastal Bend.The Texas coastal geography boundaries the Gulf of Mexico encompassing a geographical distance relative bearing at 367 miles (591 km) of coastline according to CRS [1] and 3,359 miles (5,406 km) of shoreline according to NOAA.

  3. Ogallala Aquifer - Wikipedia

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    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]

  4. Gulf Coast of the United States - Wikipedia

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    NOAA map of the 3,856 oil and gas platforms extant off the Gulf Coast in 2006. The Gulf Coast is a major center of economic activity. The marshlands along the Louisiana and Texas coasts provide breeding grounds and nurseries for ocean life that drive the fishing and shrimping industries.

  5. Aurora, Texas - Wikipedia

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    Aurora is known for a purported UFO crash in April 1897, and the ongoing legend that the UFO's pilot is supposedly buried in the local cemetery. [10] Although the town has embraced the legend to a point (the city's website mentions the legend), [11] the cemetery association has refused all requests to exhume the alien's purported gravesite.

  6. Texas–Gulf water resource region - Wikipedia

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    The Texas–Gulf water resource region is one of 21 major geographic areas, or regions, in the first level of classification used by the United States Geological Survey to divide and sub-divide the United States into successively smaller hydrologic units. These geographic areas contain either the drainage area of a major river, or the combined ...

  7. Texas water planners insist this reservoir should be built ...

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    North Texas water planners first conceived of Marvin Nichols in the late 1960s. Tensions surrounding its future intensified in the 2000s , as Dallas-Fort Worth’s surging population laid bare the ...

  8. Texas Water Development Board - Wikipedia

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    TxGIO was established by the Texas Legislature in 1968 as the Texas Water-Oriented Data Bank. In 1972, after four years of growth and diversification, it was renamed the Texas Natural Resources Information System (TNRIS). In 2023, the 88th Texas Legislature officially renamed TNRIS to the Texas Geographic Information Office. [2]

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