Blanco County/Texas Counties Power Trail #016 Traditional Cache
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Blanco County/Texas Counties Power Trail #016
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Blanco County is a county located on the Edwards Plateau
in the U.S. state of Texas. As of 2010, the population is 10,497.
Its county seat is Johnson City. Blanco is named for the Blanco
River which traverses the county. The State of Texas formed Blanco
County in 1858 from portions of Burnet, Comal, Gillespie and Hays
Counties. The city of Blanco served as the county seat from 1858 to
1890, when it was moved to Johnson City.
Blanco County (K-15) is in the Hill Country of south central Texas,
bordered on the west by Gillespie County, on the north by Burnet
and Llano counties, on the east by Hays County, and on the south by
Kendall and Comal counties. Johnson City, the county seat, is four
miles north of the center of the county, forty miles west of Austin
and sixty miles northwest of San Antonio. The county's center lies
at 30° 23' north latitude and 98° 24' west longitude. Blanco County
comprises 714 square miles of the eastern edge of the Edwards
Plateau and has an elevation range of 800 to 1,850 feet above sea
level. The terrain is generally hilly to mountainous, and along
some streambeds the landscape has a "stairstep" appearance due to
limestone benches and steep slopes. The vegetation consists mainly
of stands of live oak and Ashe juniper, with mesquite and grasses.
The soils are generally dark, calcareous, stony, clay loams with
rock outcrops. Mineral resources include limestone, lead, oil, gas,
industrial sand, and dolomite. Most of the county is best suited
for rangeland and wildlife habitat. The northern and central part,
about two-thirds of the total area, drains into the Colorado River
in Travis County through Miller and Cypress creeks and the
Pedernales River. The southern third of the county drains into the
Guadalupe River through the Blanco and Little Blanco rivers. The
temperatures range from an average high of 96° F in July to an
average low of 34° in January, the rainfall averages 34.39 inches
per year, and the growing season extends an average of 234
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