Hansford County/Texas Counties Power Trail #098 Traditional Cache
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Hansford County/Texas Counties Power Trail #098
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Hansford Countyis a county located in the U.S. state of
Texas. In 2010, its population was 5,613. The county is named for
John M. Hansford, a Texas state congressman and judge. Hansford
County is one of 30 prohibition, or entirely dry, counties in the
state of Texas. Its seat is Spearman.
Hansford County, on the northern edge of the Panhandle, is bordered
on the north by Oklahoma, on the west by Sherman County, on the
south by Hutchinson County, and on the east by Ochiltree County.
The approximate center of the county lies at 36°15' north latitude
and 101°20' west longitude. Spearman, the county seat, is in the
southeastern part of the county, about ten miles from the county
center and approximately eighty miles northeast of Amarillo. The
county, named for John M. Hansford, comprises 907 square miles of
level and rolling prairies cut by the intermittent Frisco,
Coldwater, Palo Duro, and Horse creeks. The region's black, sandy,
and loam soils support abundant native grasses as well as wheat,
corn, sorghum, oats, and other small grains. Hansford County, on
the High Plains, ranges from 2,950 to 3,300 feet in altitude and
receives an average annual rainfall of 22.16 inches; it has an
average maximum temperature of 94° F in July and an average minimum
of 20° in January. The growing season averages 186 days year.
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