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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 Trans-Pecos is a region of extremes, and at the opposite extreme from sparsely populated Terrell County is El Paso County, which is the smallest but most populated of the nine counties. El Paso County has a land area of only 1,015 sq mi (2,629 km 2 ), yet it has a population of 800,647 individuals, resulting in a population density of 789 ...
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.
Big Bend area map Casa Grande is a prominent peak in the Chisos Mountains of the Big Bend area of west Texas. The view is from the Pinnacles Trail in Big Bend National Park . The Big Bend is part of the Trans-Pecos region in southwestern Texas , United States along the border with Mexico , north of the prominent bend in the Rio Grande for which ...
Texas’ population grew by 4.7% from April 2020 to July 2023, according to Census data evaluated by the center, which created several maps to illustrate the percent change of county populations ...
The U.S. state of Texas is divided into 254 counties, more than any other U.S. state. [1] While only about 20% of Texas counties are generally located within the Houston—Dallas—San Antonio—Austin areas, they serve a majority of the state's population with approximately 22,000,000 inhabitants.
The Smokehouse Creek Fire surpassed Texas’s previously largest wildfire on record, the East Amarillo Complex Fire, which killed a dozen people as it torched more than 907,000 acres in March 2006.
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