Potter County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. It forms part of the Amarillo metropolitan area. As of the 2010 census, the population was 121,073. Its seat is Amarillo. Potter County is named for Robert Potter, a politician, signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence and the Secretary of the Texas Navy.
Potter County, on the High Plains of the Panhandle, is bordered on the north by Moore County, on the east by Carson County, on the south by Randall County, and on the west by Oldham County. Its center point is at 35°25' north latitude and 101°53' west longitude. Amarillo, the county seat, is on the county's southern border, about 110 miles due north of Lubbock. The county was named for Robert Potter. It comprises 902 square miles of level to rolling terrain, with elevations ranging from 3,000 to 3,800 feet above sea level. Its soils are mainly chocolate and red loams with some sand and clay. The area slopes to the Canadian River, which flows easterly across the northern part of Potter County; Lake Meredith, formed when the Canadian was dammed in 1965, extends about eight miles into the northwestern section of the county. Prairie grasses cover much of the county, and mesquite, hackberry, juniper, and scrub oak grow in the breaks. Temperatures range from an average low of 23° F in January to an average high of 92° in July. Annual rainfall averages 20.28 inches. The growing season lasts 190 days. In the early 1980s about 91 percent of the land in the county was in farms and ranches, with 10 percent of the farmland under cultivation. Wheat and sorghum were the area's most important crops; livestock and livestock products accounted for about 51 percent of the county's agricultural income. Helium, caliche, sulfur, sand and gravel, petroleum, and natural gas were also extracted in the area. In 1982 almost 48,477,000,000 cubic feet of gas-well gas, more than 382,000 barrels of petroleum, and more than 1,867,000,000 cubic feet of casinghead gas were produced in the county.
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I found my first cache in Potter county on 09/05/2009.
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