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Another rough definition of the region is the area south of the Parallel 36°30′ north. [1] Several climates can be found in the region— desert / semi-desert ( Eastern California , Nevada , Arizona , New Mexico , Utah , and West Texas ), Mediterranean ( California ), humid subtropical ( Alabama , Mississippi , Louisiana , Florida , Georgia ...
Desert is an unincorporated community in Collin County, located in the U.S. state of Texas. [1] According to the Handbook of Texas , the community had a population of 25 in 2000. It is located within the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex .
The Nueces Strip or Wild Horse Desert is the area of South Texas between the Nueces River and the Rio Grande. [1]According to the narrative of Spanish missionary Juan Agustín Morfi, there were so many wild horses swarming in the Nueces Strip in 1777 "that their trails make the country, utterly uninhabited by people, look as if it were the most populated in the world".
This is a list of unincorporated communities in the U.S. state of Texas, listed by county. This may include disincorporated communities, towns with no incorporated status, ghost towns, or census-designated places.
[2] [3] The area is generally bilingual in English and Spanish, with a fair amount of Spanglish [4] due to the region's diverse history and transborder agglomerations. [5] It is home to some of the poorest cities in the nation, as well as many unincorporated, persistent poverty communities called colonias.
Located in Coachella Valley in the Colorado Desert region of the Sonoran Desert, Indio is home to at least five major 55+ active adult retirement communities that combine for more than 6,500 homes.
In the dusty desert of Marfa, Texas, hotel and campground El Cosmico serves as an eclectic respite in Far West Texas. Well, you could argue that calling El Cosmico a "hotel" is a stretch.
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.