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In the Permian geologic period, North-Central Texas was a part of the western coastal zone of equatorial Pangea, a super-continental land mass. [1] Nearby uplifts and mountainous regions, such as the Muenster Arch and Red River Uplift, the Wichita, Arbuckle, and Ouachita mountains developed by the end of the Pennsylvanian, [2] providing elevated topography to the north and east during the Permian.
The area is sometimes called the Lower Plains, North Central Plains,or Rolling Plains. [2] The Osage Plains, covering west-central Missouri , the southeastern third of Kansas , most of central Oklahoma , and extending into north-central Texas , is the southernmost of three tallgrass prairie physiographic areas.
The Nortex Regional Planning Commission (NORTEX) is a voluntary association of cities, counties and special districts in North Texas. Based in Wichita Falls, the Nortex Regional Planning Commission is a member of the Texas Association of Regional Councils.
The North Central Plains are bounded by the Caprock Escarpment to the west, the Edwards Plateau to the south, and the Eastern Cross Timbers to the east. This area includes the North Central Plains around the cities of Abilene and Wichita Falls , the Western Cross Timbers to the west of Fort Worth , the Grand Prairie , and the Eastern Cross ...
Wichita Falls Independent School District: 2,059 3 North Texas State Hospital: 1,974 4 United Regional Health Care System 1,778 5 City of Wichita Falls 1,477 6 Midwestern State University: 1,284 7 James V. Allred Unit: 971 8 Cryovac: 732 9 Work Services Corporation 730 10 Howmet Castings: 704
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.
Evergy will hold an open house Tuesday from 5-7 p.m. outdoors at the Minisa Park shelter to update residents on its reworked north-central Wichita transmission replacement plans and to give ...
The Red Beds of Texas and Oklahoma are a group of Early Permian-age geologic strata in the southwestern United States cropping out in north-central Texas and south-central Oklahoma. They comprise several stratigraphic groups , including the Clear Fork Group , the Wichita Group , and the Pease River Group . [ 1 ]