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Lake Mineral Wells State Park & Trailway is a state park located in Mineral Wells, Parker County, Texas. It includes Lake Mineral Wells, and is the only state park in Texas which protects part of the Western Cross Timbers and Mineral Wells Trailway. Also within the park is Penitentiary Hollow, a somewhat unusual geological feature which ...
Texas. Oklahoma. Kansas. 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 southeastern Kansas across Central Oklahoma to Central Texas. [1] Made up of a mix of prairie, savanna, and woodland, [2] [3] it forms part of the boundary between ...
Weatherford ( / ˈwɛðərfərd / WEDH-ər-fərd) [6] is a city and the county seat of Parker County, Texas, United States. In 2020, its population was 30,854. [7] Weatherford is named after Thomas J. Weatherford, a State senator and advocate for Texas's secession to the Confederate States.
The Weatherford Downtown Historic District is located in Weatherford, Texas, the seat of Parker County . The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 23, 1990.
Fort Wolters was a United States military installation four miles northeast of Mineral Wells, Texas. The fort was originally named Camp Wolters in honor of Brigadier General Jacob F. Wolters, commander of the 56th Cavalry Brigade of the National Guard, which used the area as a summer training ground. [1] It was an Army camp from 1925 until 1946.
The Dallas–Fort Worth, TX–OK combined statistical area is made up of 20 counties in North Central Texas and one county in South Central Oklahoma. The statistical area includes two metropolitan areas and seven micropolitan areas .
Trinity River (Texas) / 29.74306°N 94.70333°W / 29.74306; -94.70333. The Trinity River is a 710-mile (1,140 km) [2] river, the longest with a watershed entirely within the U.S. state of Texas. It rises in extreme northern Texas, a few miles south of the Red River. The headwaters are separated by the high bluffs on the southern side of ...
As the only timber available in the area, the forest contributed to the local economy. Bastrop began supplying Austin with lumber in 1839 and then San Antonio , the western Texas frontier, and parts of Mexico.