Red River County - Texas (053) Traditional Cache
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Red River County - Texas (053)
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6/5/2012
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Red River County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. It is named for the Red River, which forms its northern boundary. As of the 2010 census, its population was 12,860. Its seat is Clarksville. As of 2000, it had the lowest population density for all counties in East Texas. Red River County is the birthplace of John Nance Garner, 32nd Vice President of the United States. B.P. Newman (1927–2008), a Texas business entrepreneur, developer, and philanthropist based in Laredo, was also born in Red River County. Red River County is represented in the Texas House of Representatives by the Republican Erwin Cain of Sulphur Springs, Texas.
Red River County is separated from Oklahoma by the Red River and from Arkansas by Bowie County. Clarksville, the county seat and largest town, is sixty miles northwest of Texarkana. The county's center lies at 33°37' north latitude and 95°01' west longitude. Red River County occupies 1,054 square miles of the East Texasqv timberlands. The terrain is gently rolling with an elevation ranging from 300 to 500 feet above sea level. The county is drained by the Red River and the Sulphur River, which form its northern and southern boundaries. Most of the soils in the county are either loamy with a clayey subsoil or clayey. Mineral resources include oil, gas, clay, industrial sand, and chalk. Temperatures range from an average high of 94° F in July to an average low of 30° in January. Rainfall averages forty-six inches a year, and the growing season averages 234 days annually.
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I found my first cache in Red River county on 07/18/2009.
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