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June 8, 2011 (TX 12 & LA 12 at Sabine River: Deweyville: Historic Bridges of Texas, 1866-1945 MPS, extends into Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana: 4: Newton County Courthouse: Newton County Courthouse
Peaks in the state of Texas [1] [2] [3]; Mountain Peak Elevation Prominence Isolation Location Mountain range County; Guadalupe Peak: 8,751 ft 2667 m: 3,031 ft 924 m
Shaded relief map of the Llano Estacado. Texas contains a wide variety of geologic settings. The state's stratigraphy has been largely influenced by marine transgressive-regressive cycles during the Phanerozoic, with a lesser but still significant contribution from late Cenozoic tectonic activity, as well as the remnants of a Paleozoic mountain range.
The Franklin Mountains of Texas (Spanish: Sierras de los Mansos [1]) are a small range 23 miles (37 km) long, 3 miles (5 km) wide that extend from El Paso, Texas, north into New Mexico. [2] The Franklins were formed due to crustal extension related to the Cenozoic Rio Grande rift .
The mountain's toponym was officially adopted on November 4, 1938, by the United States Board on Geographic Names to commemorate George Getz Shumard (1823–1867), who made the first geologic exploration of the Guadalupe Mountains in the 1850s. [3]
Northeast of Salt Flat in Guadalupe Mountains National Park 31°54′27″N 104°48′00″W / 31.9075°N 104.8°W / 31.9075; -104.8 ( Guadalupe Salt Flat
Crown Mountain is located in Big Bend National Park and the Chisos Mountains. It ranks as the sixth-highest peak in this park, mountain range, and county, but only the 34th-highest in Texas. [1] [2] The mountain is composed of volcanic rock of the Chisos Formation which formed during the Paleogene period. [4]
Little Christmas Mountain is part of the Christmas Mountains where it is set within Big Bend National Park and the Chihuahuan Desert.The mountain is composed of intrusive rhyolite (volcanic rock) which formed 33 million years ago during the Oligocene period. [4]