Sabine County - Texas (071) Traditional Cache
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Sabine County - Texas (071)
A cache by [DELETED_USER]
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6/12/2012
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Sabine County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. It was organized on December 14, 1837, and named for the Sabine River, which forms its eastern border. As of the 2010 census, its population was 10,834. Its seat is Hemphill. Sabine County is represented in the Texas House of Representatives by the conservative Republican Wayne Christian, a financial analyst from Center in Shelby County.
Sabine County, an original Texas county, is in East Texasqv on the Sabine River at the border of Texas and Louisiana, 140 miles northeast of Houston. The center of the county is at 31°20' north latitude and 93°50' west longitude. Sabine County covers 546 square miles in the Redlands region, which is covered with longleaf pine, oak, and hickory forests. The southern part of the county is gently rolling to hilly with loamy surfaces and deep reddish, clayey, iron-rich subsoils. The northern part has sandy acidic loamy soils with very deep reddish clayey subsoils. Elevation ranges from 150 to 350 feet. Natural resources include clay, ceramic clay, industrial sand, oil, gas, and glauconite. Six major watercourses cross the county; Patroon, Palo Gauche, and Housen bayous and Six Mile and Sandy creeks flow east into the Sabine River, and Bear Creek flows along the southwestern edge of the county. The principal freshwater source is the Carrizo-Wilcox Aquifer. The average annual precipitation is 51.94 inches with a mean temperature range of 36° F in January to 93° in July. The record high was 104°, and the record low was 8°. The average growing season is 236 days.
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I found my first cache in Sabine county on 08/08/2009.
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