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Study Butte is located in southern Brewster County. The Terlingua CDP borders Study Butte to the southwest. Texas State Highway 118 passes through Study Butte and leads 3.7 miles (6.0 km) southeast to the west entrance to Big Bend National Park and 78 miles (126 km) north to the city of Alpine.
Study Butte-Terlingua was a census-designated place (CDP) in Brewster County, Texas, United States. The population was 267 at the 2000 census . For the 2010 census it was split into two CDPs, Study Butte and Terlingua .
Location of Brewster County in Texas. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Brewster County, Texas. This is intended to be a complete list of properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Brewster County, Texas. There are seven districts and five individual properties listed on ...
The third-largest producer of quicksilver in the area was the Study Butte Mine, located five miles east of Terlingua. Cinnabar was discovered here in 1902 and mined from 1905. The property was operated in World War II by the Texas Mercury Co. Cinnabar occurs in ore-bearing fractures or veins within a syenite intrusion.
The camp has five campsites, a dining hall, health lodge, chapel, maintenance building, trading post, field sports range, two cabins, a campfire ring, a camp master cabin and a home occupied by the full time camp Ranger and his family. Camp Soule is used for short-term camping, family camping, training, day camps and various other activities.
Brewster County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas.It is in West Texas and its county seat (and only city) is Alpine. [1] It is one of the nine counties that comprise the Trans-Pecos region, and borders Mexico.
State Highway 118 (SH 118) is a 155.3-mile (249.9 km) state highway in the U.S. state of Texas that runs from Big Bend National Park north to Kent and passes through the towns of Study Butte, Alpine, and Fort Davis. SH 118 is maintained by the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT). The road lies entirely within the Trans-Pecos region
The Lake Mineral Wells Trailway follows the route of the former Weatherford, Mineral Wells and Northwestern Railway that closed entirely in 1992. The railroad was opened in 1891. Some of the line was abandoned in sections, and the rest was subsequently merged into the Missouri Pacific Railroad in 1988. The following year, the line changed ...