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Tierra Blanca Creek is an ephemeral stream about 75 mi (121 km) long, heading in Curry County, New Mexico, flowing east-northeast across northern portions of the Llano Estacado to join Palo Duro Creek to form the Prairie Dog Town Fork Red River southeast of Amarillo, Texas.
The stream turns south and southwest to enter the North Fork of the Red River 2.5 miles from the Oklahoma-Texas line. [3] The confluence is at 35°18′03″N 99°56′46″W / 35.30083°N 99.94611°W / 35.30083; -99.94611 and an elevation of 1978 ft. [ 1 ] The confluence is 6.5 miles northwest of Erick, Oklahoma on
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 ...
A nuclear weapons facility in the Texas Panhandle said it had evacuated some staff Tuesday amid wind-fueled wildfires that covered thousands of acres and prompted the governor to issue a disaster ...
By Sunday it had burned nearly 1.1 million acres and was only 15% contained, the Texas A&M Forest Service said on X. Update: the #SmokehouseCreekFire in Hutchinson County is an estimated 1,076,638 ...
Gideon is concentrated around the intersection of Missouri Route 153 and Missouri Route 162, in the western Bootheel.The city of Clarkton lies just to the west.. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 1.80 square miles (4.66 km 2), of which 1.79 square miles (4.64 km 2) is land and 0.01 square miles (0.03 km 2) is water.
Following is a list of dams and reservoirs in Texas.. All major dams are linked below. The National Inventory of Dams defines any "major dam" as being 50 feet (15 m) tall with a storage capacity of at least 5,000 acre-feet (6,200,000 m 3), or of any height with a storage capacity of 25,000 acre-feet (31,000,000 m 3).
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 ...