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Pecos County (/ ˈ p eɪ k ə s / PAY-kəs [1]) is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 census, its population was 15,193. [2] The county seat is Fort Stockton. [3] The county was created in 1871 and organized in 1875. [4] [5] It is named for the Pecos River. It is one of the nine counties that comprise the Trans-Pecos ...
Pecos (/ ˈ p eɪ k ə s / PAY-kəs [4]) is the largest city in and the county seat of Reeves County, Texas, United States. [5] It is in the valley on the west bank of the Pecos River at the eastern edge of the Chihuahuan Desert , in the Trans-Pecos region of West Texas and just south of New Mexico 's border.
The Brownsville–Harlingen–Raymondville combined statistical area is made up of two counties in the Rio Grande Valley region of Texas.The CSA consists of the Brownsville–Harlingen metropolitan statistical area and the Raymondville micropolitan statistical area.
Route map U.S. Highway 285. US 285 in Texas highlighted in red ... I-20 in Pecos: North end: US 285 at Texas ... Mobile view ...
English: The maps use data from nationalatlas.gov, specifically countyp020.tar.gz on the Raw Data Download page. The maps also use state outline data from statesp020.tar.gz . The Florida maps use hydrogm020.tar.gz to display Lake Okeechobee.
Bakersfield is an unincorporated community in Pecos County, Texas, United States. According to the Handbook of Texas , the dispersed community had an estimated population of 30 in 2000. [ 1 ]
The route passes alongside the community of Lindsay as it approaches the outskirts of Pecos. The route then passes Pecos Municipal Airport. The speed limit gradually lowers to 55 miles per hour (89 km/h) and then widens to four lanes before reaching I-20. In Pecos, the route intersects I-20 at Exit 39 then continues north as South Bickley Avenue.
In the latter half of the 19th century, "West of the Pecos" was a reference to the rugged desolation of the Wild West. New Mexico and Texas disputed water rights to the river until the U.S. government settled the dispute in 1949 with the Pecos River Compact. [8] The Pecos River Settlement Agreement was signed between New Mexico and Texas in ...