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The Handbook of Texas defines the southern border of Swisher County as the southern boundary of the Texas Panhandle region. Its land area is 25,823.89 sq mi (66,883.58 km 2), or nearly 10% of the state's total. The Texas Panhandle is slightly larger in size than the US state of West Virginia.
A post office called Texas was established in 1846, and remained in operation until 1903. [2] Texas was briefly considered to become county seat after a fire burned the courthouse in 1847. [3] The community was named after the state of Texas. [4] A public ferry was used to connect the banks and the expense was paid by the county.
US 60 enters Texas from New Mexico at Farwell, having just left a concurrency with US 70 and US 84 across the New Mexico state line in Texico. [2] The route travels northeast through small towns in the western Panhandle, reaching an intersection with US 385 in Hereford. [3] In Canyon, the highway turns north, merging with US 87 and then ...
The Ozark Trail ran through southwest Missouri and across Oklahoma, the Texas panhandle, and on into New Mexico. [5] Much of this route became the famed U.S. Route 66 . The Federal Aid Highway Act of 1925, which finally incorporated the Deep South into the Federal roads program , made the group's basic functions obsolete and it disbanded.
Wheeler is a city in and the county seat of Wheeler County, Texas, United States, located on the eastern border of the Texas Panhandle. The population was last reported at 1,487 in the 2020 census . History
US 62 splits from US 82 and joins with State Highway 114 (SH 114) for approximately 10 miles (16 km) along the campus of Texas Tech University's southern border. On the east side of Lubbock, US 82 joins back into US 62/SH 114 and then continues east passes through Lorenzo , then leaves off the concurrency and forms a spur around Ralls , locally ...
Rita Blanca National Grassland is a National Grassland on the Great Plains near the community of Texline in northwest Dallam County, Texas, in the Texas Panhandle, and in southern Cimarron County, Oklahoma, in the western Oklahoma Panhandle. The principal city in the area is Dalhart, Texas, which houses the XIT Museum.
The Texas Panhandle is a region of the U.S. state of Texas consisting of the northernmost 26 counties in the state. The panhandle is a rectangular area bordered by New Mexico to the west and Oklahoma to the north and east. The Handbook of Texas defines the southern border of Swisher County to be the southern boundary of the Texas Panhandle region.