The Trans-Pecos, as originally defined in 1887 by the Texas geologist Robert T. Hill, is the distinct portion of Texas that lies west of the Pecos River...
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of the Pecos River is often called "Far West Texas" or the "Trans-Pecos", a term introduced in 1887 by geologist Robert T. Hill. The Trans-Pecos lies within...
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organized in 1875. It is named for the Pecos River. It is one of the nine counties that comprise the Trans-Pecos region of West Texas. Archeological digs...
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Agkistrodon contortrix pictigaster (redirect from Trans-Pecos Copperhead)
Trans-Pecos copperhead, western copperhead Agkistrodon contortrix pictigaster was formerly a venomous pit viper subspecies found in the Trans-Pecos region...
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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...
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Climate of Texas (section Trans Pecos Region)
several regions with distinctly different climates: Northern Plains, Trans-Pecos Region, Texas Hill Country, Piney Woods, and South Texas. Generally speaking...
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The Trans-Pecos Volcanic Field is a volcanic field located in western Texas in the counties of Brewster, Jeff Davis, Presidio, and extends into northern...
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The Trans-Pecos rat snake or Davis Mountain rat snake (Bogertophis subocularis), is a species of medium to large, nonvenomous rat snake in the family...
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Reeves County, Texas (redirect from Pecos, TX μSA)
one of the nine counties that comprise the Trans-Pecos region of West Texas. Reeves County comprises the Pecos micropolitan statistical area. Prehistoric...
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Texas, west of the Pecos River, beginning with the Davis Mountains on the east and the Rio Grande to its west and south. The Trans-Pecos region is the only...
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Look up Pecos in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Pecos may refer to: Pecos River, rises near Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States Pecos, Texas, a city...
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The Big Bend is part of the Trans-Pecos region in southwestern Texas, United States along the border with Mexico, north of the prominent bend in the Rio...
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commemorate its 100th anniversary. Trans-Mississippi Department Trans-Pecos Manifest Destiny Kvasnicka, R.M. (1997) The Trans-Mississippi West, 1804-1912. Washington...
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The Trans-Pecos striped whiptail (Aspidoscelis inornatus heptagrammus) is a subspecies of the little striped whiptail (Aspidoscelis inornatus) lizard...
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located in the Trans-Pecos region of far-west Texas which exceed Mount Magazine in elevation and prominence, although the Trans-Pecos region lies so far...
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however, has turned the state (apart from Hispanic South Texas, the Trans-Pecos, and several large cities) into generally a Republican stronghold. Since...
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into the Mesilla Valley, and southeast along the Rio Grande into the Trans-Pecos region of Texas. The fourth subregion Meinig calls the "Northern Corridor...
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the Pecos may refer to: Trans-Pecos, the area of West Texas that is west of the Pecos River West of the Pecos Museum, Pecos, Texas West of the Pecos Rodeo...
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southwestern New Mexico and adjacent areas of Arizona and Mexico, the Trans-Pecos of west Texas, the Eastern Chihuahua and the vast volcanic field of the...
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Marfa is a city in the high desert of the Trans-Pecos in far West Texas, United States, between the Davis Mountains and Big Bend National Park, at an...
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Numbering Plan (NANP) for the U.S. state of Texas in the Permian Basin and Trans-Pecos areas (excluding the El Paso metropolitan area), including the cities...
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Terrell County, Texas (category Trans-Pecos)
Texas state senator. Terrell County is one of the nine counties in the Trans-Pecos region of West Texas. It is the setting for Cormac McCarthy's novel No...
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grass-leaved goldenrods, 5 species native to North America Gundlachia triantha, Trans-Pecos desert goldenrod Lorandersonia microcephala, small-headed heath goldenrod...
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Presidio County, Texas (category Trans-Pecos)
Presidio County (K-5 in Texas topological index of counties) is in the Trans-Pecos region of West Texas and is named for the border settlement of Presidio...
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Plateau, desert in the south and west, mountains in the far west (the Trans-Pecos), and grassland prairie in the north, also known as the Panhandle. The...
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U.S. Route 62 in Texas (section Trans-Pecos)
U.S. Route 62 (US 62) is a US highway that runs from the Mexico–US border at El Paso, TX to the Canada-US border at Niagara Falls, NY. In Texas, the highway...
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U.S. Route 180 in Texas (section Trans-Pecos)
Weatherford and Fort Worth. The entire section of US 180 through the Trans-Pecos region is concurrent with other highways. US 180 enters into Texas from...
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they lived east of the mountains and the Pecos River, on the High Plains from the Texas Panhandle to the Pecos Valley, between Amarillo (Bighą́ą́’ gułga-yá...
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but it has also been found in the John Day Basin of Oregon and the Trans-Pecos area of Texas. Archaeotherium was named by Joseph Leidy in 1850, based...
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Culberson County, Texas (category Trans-Pecos)
into two time zones. It is one of the nine counties that comprise the Trans-Pecos region of West Texas. Prehistoric Clovis culture peoples in Culberson...
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