Titus County - Texas (055) Traditional Cache
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Titus County - Texas (055)
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6/5/2012
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Titus County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2010 census, its population was 32,334. Its county seat is Mount Pleasant. The county is named for Andrew Jackson Titus, an early settler. Titus County is represented in the Texas House of Representatives by the Republican Erwin Cain of Sulphur Springs, Texas. It was formerly represented in the Texas State Senate by Bill Ratliff, another Republican, who served from 2001-2003 as Lieutenant Governor of Texas.
Titus County is located in northeastern Texas, one county removed from the state's northern boundary and two counties removed from the state's eastern boundary. Mount Pleasant, the county seat and the county's largest town, is located sixty miles southwest of Texarkana and 105 miles northeast of Dallas. The center of the county lies at approximately 33°14' north latitude and 94°57' west longitude. Two major highways, U.S. Highway 67 and U.S. Highway 30, cross the county from east to west. U.S. Highway 271 crosses the county from north to south. The county is also crossed by two railroads, the St. Louis Southwestern and the Texas Utilities. Titus County comprises 412 square miles of the East Texas timberlands, an area that is heavily forested with a great variety of softwoods and hardwoods, especially pine, cypress, and oak. The terrain ranges from nearly level to rolling; most of the county is gently undulating to rolling. Elevation ranges from 250 to 450 feet above mean sea level. Temperatures range from an average high of 95° F in July to an average low of 35° in January. Rainfall averages nearly forty-six inches per year, and the growing season extends for an average of 233 days. The northern half of the county drains into the Sulphur River, and the southern half drains into Big Cypress Creek. The surface soils are predominantly light colored and loamy, and the subsoils are reddish and clayey. Between 21 and 30 percent of the land is considered prime farmland. Mineral resources include ceramic clay, lignite coal, industrial sand, oil, and gas. In 1982, 2,044,850 barrels of crude oil and 21,349,000 cubic feet of casinghead gas were produced. Pine and hardwood production in 1981 totaled 789,314 cubic feet.
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I found my first cache in Titus county on 07/18/2009.
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