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    Cross Plains is a town in Callahan County, Texas, United States. The population was 899 at the 2020 census, down from 982 at the 2010 census. It is part...
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  • named Cross Plains in the United States: Cross Plains, Alabama Cross Plains, Indiana Cross Plains, Kentucky Cross Plains, Tennessee Cross Plains, Texas Cross...
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  • Cross Plains High School is a public high school located in Cross Plains, Texas, United States, classified as a 1A school by the University Interscholastic...
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    Almanac, Texas has four major physical regions: Gulf Coastal Plains, Interior Lowlands, Great Plains, and Basin and Range Province. This has been cited as the...
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    South Plains College (SPC) is a public community college in Levelland, Texas. It also has five locations in Plainview, at the Reese Technology Center,...
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    Panhandle-South Plains Fair held annually in Lubbock; Make-A-Wish Texas South Plains; the South Plains Regional Chapter of the American Red Cross; South Plains Council...
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    Jersey (listed in 2000, demolished in 2004), The Balinese Room in Galveston, Texas (listed in 1997, destroyed by Hurricane Ike in 2008), seven of the nine...
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    The term Cross Timbers, also known as Ecoregion 29, Central Oklahoma/Texas Plains, is used to describe a strip of land in the United States that runs from...
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  • Cross Plains Independent School District is a public school district based in Cross Plains, Texas (USA). Located in Callahan County, portions of the district...
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    Prairies, Texas Louisiana Coastal Plains, and Tamaulipas-Texas Semi-Arid Plain, which overlap or expand upon other Great Plains designations. The region is...
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    "redbed country" of the Rolling Plains, and south of the Llano Estacado lies the Edwards Plateau. The Rolling Plains and Edwards Plateau subregions act...
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    Robert E. Howard (category People from Abilene, Texas)
    sorcery subgenre. Howard was born and raised in Texas. He spent most of his life in the town of Cross Plains, with some time spent in nearby Brownwood. A...
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  • homes were destroyed by a large fire in and around Cross Plains. On December 29, 2005, the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) listed 85 single-family...
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  • energy to contest this". Herron (1984). p. 149: "Robert E. Howard of Cross Plains, Texas, created one of the great mythic figures in modern popular culture...
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    Llano Estacado (redirect from Staked Plains)
    as the Staked Plains, is a region in the Southwestern United States that encompasses parts of eastern New Mexico and northwestern Texas. One of the largest...
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    The Texas Plains Trail is a nonprofit organization which promotes heritage tourism, economic development, and historic preservation in a 52 county region...
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    Plains region, an area known historically and geographically as the Llano Estacado, and ecologically is part of the southern end of the High Plains,...
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    Plains Indians or Indigenous peoples of the Great Plains and Canadian Prairies are the Native American tribes and First Nations peoples who have historically...
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    John Hanke (category University of Texas at Austin alumni)
    the small central Texas town of Cross Plains and graduated from Cross Plains High School in 1985. He attended the University of Texas, Austin and graduated...
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    Blood and Thunder: The Life and Art of Robert E. Howard (Third ed.). Cross Plains, Texas: Robert E. Howard Foundation Press. ISBN 978-1-304-03152-5. OCLC 923870328...
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    the High Plains Aquifer System, and resides in the Ogallala Formation, which is the principal geologic unit underlying 80% of the High Plains. Large-scale...
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  • The Texas–Indian wars were a series of conflicts between settlers in Texas and the Southern Plains Indians during the 19th-century. Conflict between the...
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  • (approximately 85%) of Howard's estate. In 1990, Howard's hometown of Cross Plains, Texas, formed Project Pride to promote their community. They bought Howard's...
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    September 1927, after a trip to San Antonio from his home in tiny Cross Plains, Texas, he writes: "Several books I purchased on my trip, among them G....
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    Robert E. Howard Museum (category Historic house museums in Texas)
    located at the junction of Texas State Highway 36 and Avenue J in Cross Plains, in the county of Callahan, in the U.S. state of Texas. The museum was the family...
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    Gertrude Beasley (category Writers from Texas)
    her life. Edna Gertrude Beasley was born on June 20, 1892, near Cross Plains, Texas. Her father was an itinerant subsistence farmer. She was the ninth...
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  • University alumnus Novalyne Price Ellis (1908–1999), schoolteacher in Cross Plains, Texas; member of the National Forensic Hall of Fame; memoirist Billie Sol...
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  • Plains High School is a public high school located in the city of Plains, Texas and classified as a 2A school by the UIL. It is part of the Plains Independent...
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    division. The area is sometimes called the Lower Plains, North Central Plains,or Rolling Plains. The Osage Plains, covering west-central Missouri, the southeastern...
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    Jack Graham (pastor) (category People from Fort Worth, Texas)
    needed] Graham began his ministry as pastor of East Side Baptist in Cross Plains, Texas (1970–1971). Following an associate pastorate at Sagamore Hill Baptist...
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