Jim Wells County/Texas Counties Power Trail #125 Traditional Cache
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Jim Wells County/Texas Counties Power Trail #125
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Jim Wells County is a county located in the U.S. state
of Texas. As of the 2010 census, the population was 40,838. It is
county seat is Alice. The county is named for James Babbage Wells
Jr., a political boss in southern Texas.
The Alice Micropolitan Statistical Area includes all of Jim Wells
County.
Jim Wells County is on U.S. Highway 281 west of Corpus Christi in
the Rio Grande Plain region of South Texas. It is bordered by Live
Oak and San Patricio counties on the north, Nueces and Kleberg
counties on the east, Brooks County on the south, and Duval County
on the west. Alice, the county seat and largest town, is located
near the center of the county at 27°39' north latitude and 98°05'
west longitude. Other communities include Orange Grove, Ben Bolt,
Sandia, and Premont. The county covers 845 square miles. The
terrain is flat, with elevations ranging from 200 to 400 feet.
Soils are generally light to dark, with loamy surfaces over
reddish, clayey subsoils and limestone forty inches below the
surface. Gray to black, cracking, clayey soils are also found in
some areas. The county's vegetation is typical of the South Texas
Plains region, with grasslands, mesquite, post oak, live oak, and
cacti predominating. Between 41 and 50 percent of the county is
considered prime farmland. Natural resources include caliche,
industrial sand, oil, and gas. The climate is subtropical-humid.
Heavy rains from weakening tropical storms are common from June
through October. Temperatures range from 44° F to 68° in January
and 74° to 96° in July. The average annual temperature is 72°.
Rainfall averages twenty-eight inches a year. Snow almost never
occurs. The growing season lasts for 304 days of the year, with the
last freeze in mid-February and the first freeze in early
December.
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