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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.
The central forest-grasslands transition lies to the north and northwest, and the Edwards Plateau savanna and the Tamaulipan mezquital lie to the southwest. The larger of the two islands is the Fayette Prairie , encompassing 17,000 km 2 (6,600 sq mi), and the smaller is the San Antonio Prairie , with an area of 7,000 km 2 (2,700 sq mi).
Saline lake beds, and shortgrass grama grasslands characteristic of the high plains. Odessa Meteor Crater: 1965: Ector: county Contains two meteorite impact craters. The largest is 550 feet (170 m) in diameter. Palo Duro Canyon State Park
The Canadian River forms the Llano's northern boundary, separating it from the rest of the High Plains. To the east, the Caprock Escarpment, a precipitous cliff about 300 feet (100 m) high, lies between the Llano and the red Permian plains of Texas; while to the west, the Mescalero Escarpment demarcates the eastern edge of the Pecos River valley
Both the U.S. Census Bureau and Centers for Disease and Control have categorized Texas as West South Central and South. ... Panhandle and South Plains: Great Plains. North Texas: South. East Texas ...
The area is sometimes called the Lower Plains, North Central Plains,or Rolling Plains. [2] The Osage Plains, covering west-central Missouri, the southeastern third of Kansas, most of central Oklahoma, and extending into north-central Texas, is the southernmost of three tallgrass prairie physiographic areas.
The Central Great Plains are a prairie ecoregion of the central United States, part of North American Great Plains. The region runs from west-central Texas through west-central Oklahoma, central Kansas, and south-central Nebraska. It is designated as the Central and Southern Mixed Grasslands ecoregion by the World Wide Fund for Nature.
These photos from the Star-Telegram show long-gone rides, historic moments and fun memories from the 1960s into into 2010s. ... PHOTOS: Six Flags Over Texas, 51 years of history from Star-Telegram ...