Texas Almanac, 1954-1955 Page: 135
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PHYSIOGRAPHY AND GEOLOGY
Quaternary
Pliocene,
Miocene and
Oligocene
Eocene
L Gulf Series
of the
Cretaceous
Comanche
Series of the
Cretaceous
Jurassic and
TriassicGeologic Ages
at Surface of Texas-~r 0
Permia ,
Pennsylvanian and
Mississippian
SDevonian, Silurian, Ordovician,
Cambrian and Paleozoic Undivided
Cambrian
Cenozic, Cretaceous and
Undifferentiated Igneous
Pre-Paleozoic Igneous
warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico and
the high plateaus and the axial cordillera
of the North American Continent. From
these diversified natural conditions man
has built a diversified economy and
evolved a varied way of life.
Area-Length, Breadth
The area of Texas consists of 263,644 square
miles of land area and 3,695 of inland water
surface, a total of 267,339, or 168,732,160
acres of land and 2.364,800 of inland water,
according to the 'U.S. Bureau of the Census.
The longest straight-line distance in a gen-
eral north-south direction is 801 miles from
the southern tip near Brownsville to the
northwest corner of the Panhandle. The
greatest general east-west distance is 773
miles from the extreme eastward bend of the
Sabine in Newton County to the extreme
westward bulge of the Rio Grande in El Paso
County.
The extremes of latitude and longitude are
as follows: From Long. 93 31' W. at the
extreme eastward point of the Sabine River
on the east line of Newton County to Long.
106 38' W. at the extreme westward bulge
of the boundary on the west line of El Paso
County; and from Lat. 25 50' N. at the
extreme southern turn of the Rio Grande on
the south line of Cameron County to Lat.
36 30' N. along the northern boundary of
the Panhandle.In elevation above mean sea level the state
varies from sea level to 8.751 feet. altitude
at the top of Guadalupe Mountain in Culber-
son County.
Texas Boundary Line.
The boundary of Texas by segments, in-
cluding only larger river bends and only the
great are of the coast line, is as follows:
Stiles.
R io G rande..... ....................... 889.0
Coast line ..............-- - 370.0)
Sabine River, Lake and Pass .............. 180.0
Sabine River to Red River ................. 106.5
R ed R iver ................................ 480.0
East Panhandle line. .... .. ............. 133.6
North Panhandle line. ... . ................. 167.0(
W est Panhandle line... ................... 31(0.2
Along 32d parallel ....................... 209.0
T otal ................................2 .845 .3
Following the smaller meanderings of the
rivers and the tidewater coast line, the fol-
lowing are the boundary measurements:
Rio Grande ................ ................. 1,569
*Coast line (tidewater i ... ........ ....... 624
Sabine River, Lake and Pass.............. 292
R ed R iver............... .. .. .......... 726
The five line segments given above.......... 926
Total. including line segments given in
table above...... ..................4,137
*While the tidewater coast line is given as 624
miles, the entire coast line measured in steps of
one mile is 973 miles for the mainland and 709
miles for the islands.
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