Jasper County - Texas (090) Traditional Cache
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Jasper County - Texas (090)
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6/12/2012
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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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I found my first cache in Jasper county on 08/29/2009.
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