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Cotton is the most common crop grown in South Plains region. In 2004 and again in 2005, records were broken for cotton production. [1] In an extended area comprising 31 counties in and near the South Plains, more than a million bales of cotton were harvested in 2005. This makes the South Plains the world’s largest cotton-producing region.
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.
South Texas plains may refer to South Texas region of the U.S. state of Texas; Tamaulipan mezquital an ecoregion in the southern United States and northeastern Mexico;
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South Texas is a geographic and cultural region of the U.S. state of Texas that lies roughly south of—and includes—San Antonio. The southern and western boundary is the Rio Grande , and to the east it is the Gulf of Mexico .
Brownfield lies in the center of Terry County, in the southern portion of the South Plains and Llano Estacado. The city rests on a windblown deposit called the Blackwater Draw Formation, which is underlain by a thick layer of caliche, referred to locally as the "caprock".
The Texas Historical Commission designated the Texas Plains Trail as the sixth trails region in mid-2003. Accordingly, the Texas Historical Commission agreed to provide the trail with marketing, technical, and financial assistance for at least three years after the designation. [16] 52 counties were added to the region ranging from as far north ...
Texas is approximately bisected by a series of faults that trend southwest to northeast across the state, from the area of Uvalde to Texarkana.South and east of these faults, the surface exposures consist mostly of Cenozoic sandstone and shale strata that grow progressively younger toward the coast, indicative of a regression that has continued from the late Mesozoic to the present.