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Jasper County/Texas Counties Power Trail #121
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Jasper County is a county located in the U.S. state of
Texas. In 2000, its population was 35,604. Its county seat is
Jasper[1]. Jasper County is named for William Jasper, an American
Revolutionary War hero.
Jasper County is represented in the Texas House of Representatives
by the conservative Republican Wayne Christian, a financial analyst
from Center in Shelby County.
Jasper County is located in Southeast Texas, bordered on the north
by San Augustine and Sabine counties, on the east by Newton County,
on the south by Orange County, and on the west by Hardin and Tyler
counties. The county seat, Jasper, is 115 miles northeast of
Houston and twenty-three miles west of the Sabine River and
Louisiana. The center of the county lies at approximately 94°00'
west longitude and 31°41' north latitude. The county was named for
William Jasper, a hero of the American Revolution who was killed
attempting to plant the American colors at the storming of Savannah
in 1779. Jasper County comprises 907 square miles of East Texas
timberlands, with elevations ranging from 25 to 400 feet above sea
level. The terrain along the northern border and southern third of
the county is undulating to rolling, with loamy or sandy surface
layers and reddish mottled clay or loamy subsoils. The rest of the
county is generally flat, with the grayish, cracking-clay soils of
the Trinity River floodplain and the reddish loamy soils of the Red
River floodplain. Water is plentiful in the county; the average
annual rainfall is fifty-two inches. Principal water sources
include Sam Rayburn Reservoir, Lake B. A. Steinhagen,qqv the Neches
River (which forms the county's western boundary), and the Angelina
River. Temperatures range from an average high of 93° F in July to
an average low of 37° in January; the average growing season lasts
229 days. Resources include abundant timber, oil, and natural gas.
The timber is mixed pine and hardwood. Almost 23,061,000 cubic feet
of pinewood and hardwood was produced in the county in 1982; crude
oil production that year was 590,576 barrels.
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