Gray County/Texas Counties Power Trail #090 Traditional Cache
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Gray County/Texas Counties Power Trail #090
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11/13/2011
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Gray County is a county located in the U.S. state of
Texas. In 2000, its population was 22,744. Gray County is named for
Peter W. Gray, a Confederate lawyer and soldier in the American
Civil War. The seat of the county is Pampa. Gray County is part of
the Pampa Micropolitan Statistical Area. It was the center of the
White Deer Lands Management Company, which ceased operations in
1957. The history of the company is the theme of the White Deer
Land Museum in Pampa, but company archives are at the
Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum in Canyon. Timothy Dwight
Hobart, the White Deer land agent from 1903–1924, was elected
mayor of Pampa in 1927.
Gray County is located in the central part of the Panhandle and the
eastern edge of the High Plains. Its center point is at 35°25'
north latitude and 100°49' west longitude. Lefors is located near
the center of the county, and Pampa, the county seat, is about
twelve miles away in the northwestern corner. Pampa is
approximately sixty miles northeast of Amarillo on U.S. Highway 60.
The county occupies 934 square miles of level prairie and rolling
river breaks. The county's sandy loam and black waxy soils support
a variety of native grasses as well as abundant wheat, corn, grain
sorghum, and hay crops. The timber in the riverbottoms includes
cottonwoods, hackberries, elms, and walnuts as well as the
ever-present mesquiteqv. The county has huge reservoirs of oil and
natural gas. Gray County is basically made up of two distinct
parts: the flat plains in the west and north, and the Red River
breaks in the east, center, and southeast. Gray County is at the
head of the North Fork of the Red River; numerous intermittent and
flowing creeks can be found in the eastern part of the county.
McClellan Creek flows northeastward across the southern part of the
county toward the North Fork, and the North Fork itself flows
across the central part. Cantonment Creek flows southward and
empties into the North Fork in the northeastern corner of the
county. The elevation ranges from 2,500 to 3,300 feet above sea
level, the average annual rainfall is 20.14 inches, and the growing
season averages 195 days a year. The average minimum temperature is
23° F in January, and the average maximum is 94° in July.
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