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Texas has gotten really cold before about -23F in 1899 in tulia and in 1933 at Seminole.
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The hottest temperature in Texas was 120F that was in 1936 at Seymour and this also happened in 1994 in Monahans.
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The Rio Grande is the longest river it runs from Colorado to the Texas-Mexico border it runs 1,896 miles
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In 1873 Clarksville received 109.4 inches of rain.
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Guadalupe Peak in Texas is the highest point at 8,749 above sea level.
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In 2012 Texas made 730 million barrels of oil worth $55 billion dollars.
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Wink received just 1.76 inches of rain in 1956
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Texas has an estimated 23 billion tons of lignite. aka a type of coal
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More than 6 million acres of Texas land are irrigated.
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The Ogallala Aquifer is the largest underground water source in Texas.
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In 2012 there were more than 244,700 farms in Texas.
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Agriculture added some $36 billion to the Texas economy in 2012
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Toledo Bend Reservoir on the Sabine River holds more than 5.5 billion cubic meters of water.
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Caddo Lake is the largest natural lake in Texas, covering more than 39 square miles.
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The Texas timber industry earned more than $1.9 billion in 2007.
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Proto-Indians live at the Gault site.
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Coastal American Indians make knives and scrapers from stone.
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American Indians living near Galveston Bay began making pottery
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The Caddos grow many kinds of crops in East Texas
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Europeans arrive in Texas and encounter the Karankawas.
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Alonso Alvaraz de Pineda maps the Texas Coast.
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Explorer Franciso Vasquez de Coronado crosses the Texas Panhandle.
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U.S. citizen James Long and a small force invade Texas, only to be defeated by Spanish forces.
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Antonio Gil Yaborbo founds the town of Nacogdoches in East Texas.
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Philip Nolan, a U.S. citizen, receives permission to capture wild horses in Texas.
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Mexico, which includes Texas, wins its independence form Spain.
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The Spanish government grants Moses Austin permission to found a colony in Texas.
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A Spanish treasure fleet shipwrecks off of present-day Padre Island.
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Spaniard Hernan Gallegos writes about the lives of the Jumano Indians in Texas.
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Spaniards first record seeing Apache Indians riding horses.
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The Marques de Rubi expedition begins.
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Spanish priest Juan Agustin author of the history of Texas, 1673-1779, dies.
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Juan de Onate crosses the Texas Panhandle on his way to Quivira.