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SOIL SURVEY OF SAN SABA COUNTY, TEXAS.
By J. O. VEATCH, In Charge, R. F. ROGERS, M. W. BECK, and H. G.
LEWIS.-Area Inspected by HUGH H. BENNETT.
DESCRIPTION OF THE AREA.
San Saba County is situated in the central part of Texas. It is
bounded on the north and east by the Colorado River, which separates
it from Brown,
Mills, Lampasas, and
Burnet Counties; on
the south by Llano
and Mason Counties;
and on the west
by Mason and McCulloch
Counties.
The town of San
Saba is 226 miles by
rail southwest of Dallas
and Fort Worth.
The southern boundary
line is 38 miles
long and the western .__
36 miles; the north FIG. 1.-Sketch map showing location of the San Saba
and east boundary County area, Texas.
is very irregular, owing to the bends of the Colorado River. The
county comprises an area of 1,110 square miles, or 710,400 acres.
San Saba County occupies a part of the Edwards Plateau, which
is a dissected region forming the southern extension of the High
Plains, or Llano Estacado, of Texas. The greater part of the county
lies in a division of the Edwards Plateau which differs from the main
part in having a somewhat more mature topography. A few mesalike
remnants of the Cretaceous limestones which underlie the Edwards
Plateau to the west appear in this county, suggesting that
once the area was entirely covered by these rocks and the surface was
a high plain, strictly a part of and probably very similar to the
present Edwards Plateau proper.
The present plateau land surface is the result of erosion and
weathering since Cretaceous times. The county, as a whole, may
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