Texas HIstory

By Cooper500

  • Coldest Spot

    Texas has gotten really cold before about -23F in 1899 in tulia and in 1933 at Seminole.

  • Hottest Spot

    The hottest temperature in Texas was 120F that was in 1936 at Seymour and this also happened in 1994 in Monahans.

  • Longest River

    The Rio Grande is the longest river it runs from Colorado to the Texas-Mexico border it runs 1,896 miles

  • Wettest Place

    In 1873 Clarksville received 109.4 inches of rain.

  • Highest Point

    Guadalupe Peak in Texas is the highest point at 8,749 above sea level.

  • Crude Oil

    In 2012 Texas made 730 million barrels of oil worth $55 billion dollars.

  • Driest Place

    Wink received just 1.76 inches of rain in 1956

  • Coal

    Texas has an estimated 23 billion tons of lignite. aka a type of coal

  • Land

    More than 6 million acres of Texas land are irrigated.

  • The Ogallala Aquifer

    The Ogallala Aquifer is the largest underground water source in Texas.

  • Farms

    In 2012 there were more than 244,700 farms in Texas.

  • Agriculture

    Agriculture added some $36 billion to the Texas economy in 2012

  • The Toledo Bend Reservoir

    Toledo Bend Reservoir on the Sabine River holds more than 5.5 billion cubic meters of water.

  • Caddo Lake

    Caddo Lake is the largest natural lake in Texas, covering more than 39 square miles.

  • Timber

    The Texas timber industry earned more than $1.9 billion in 2007.

  • 10,000 b.c.

    Proto-Indians live at the Gault site.

  • 1500 b.c.

    Coastal American Indians make knives and scrapers from stone.

  • a.d. 100

    American Indians living near Galveston Bay began making pottery

  • a.d. 1000

    The Caddos grow many kinds of crops in East Texas

  • a.d. 1528

    Europeans arrive in Texas and encounter the Karankawas.

  • 1519

    Alonso Alvaraz de Pineda maps the Texas Coast.

  • 1541

    Explorer Franciso Vasquez de Coronado crosses the Texas Panhandle.

  • 1819

    U.S. citizen James Long and a small force invade Texas, only to be defeated by Spanish forces.

  • 1779

    Antonio Gil Yaborbo founds the town of Nacogdoches in East Texas.

  • 1791

    Philip Nolan, a U.S. citizen, receives permission to capture wild horses in Texas.

  • 1821

    Mexico, which includes Texas, wins its independence form Spain.

  • 1821

    The Spanish government grants Moses Austin permission to found a colony in Texas.

  • 1554

    A Spanish treasure fleet shipwrecks off of present-day Padre Island.

  • 1581

    Spaniard Hernan Gallegos writes about the lives of the Jumano Indians in Texas.

  • 1659

    Spaniards first record seeing Apache Indians riding horses.

  • 1776

    The Marques de Rubi expedition begins.

  • 1783

    Spanish priest Juan Agustin author of the history of Texas, 1673-1779, dies.
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    1601

    Juan de Onate crosses the Texas Panhandle on his way to Quivira.