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Alton was founded in 1910 or 1911 by citizens and railroad officials of Alton, Illinois. [ 6 ] On September 21, 1989, the Alton bus crash occurred; a Dr. Pepper truck hit a Mission Consolidated Independent School District school bus and caused it to fall into a caliche pit, killing 21 students.
Alton is a ghost town in Denton County, Texas. Its site is mostly surrounded by the towns of Corinth , Argyle , Copper Canyon and Lantana , running along Hickory Creek at Old Alton Road and East Hickory Hill Road.
Alton North is a former census-designated place (CDP) in Hidalgo County, Texas, United States. [3] The population was 5,051 at the 2000 census . It is part of the McAllen – Edinburg – Mission Metropolitan Statistical Area .
Hidalgo County (/ h ɪ ˈ d æ l ɡ oʊ /; Spanish pronunciation:) is located in the U.S. state of Texas.As of the 2020 census, its population was 870,781, [2] making it the ninth-most populous county in Texas, and the most populous county outside of the counties in the Texas Triangle.
Texas Gulf Coast is an intertidal zone which borders the coastal region of South Texas, Southeast Texas, and the Texas Coastal Bend.The Texas coastal geography boundaries the Gulf of Mexico encompassing a geographical distance relative bearing at 367 miles (591 km) of coastline according to CRS [1] and 3,359 miles (5,406 km) of shoreline according to NOAA.
Mount Huffman is located in the Chisos Mountains and it ranks as the 16th-highest peak in Big Bend National Park. [2] The mountain is composed of intrusive rock which formed during the Oligocene period. [4]
The Department also provided training in the topical areas of geography. These trainings included cultural geography, physical geography (earth sciences), and mathematical geography (cartography). By 1960, conservation (environmental resource management) had become an explicit topical focus that would be further strengthened over the years.
On January 27, 1975, the Alton Independent School District consolidated into the Mission school district. As a result, the district received its current name. [5] On the morning of September 21, 1989, the Alton bus crash occurred; one of the school district's buses was struck by a Dr. Pepper truck owned and operated by Valley Coca-Cola, in ...