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10,000 B.C Proto-Indians live at the Gault site
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Europeans arrived in Texas adn encounter the Karankawas.
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Texas Coastal American Indians make knives and scrapers from stone
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The Caddos grow many kinds of crops in East Texas
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American Indians living near Galveston Bay begin making pottery
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Alonso Alvarez de Pineda maps the Texas coast.
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Exploer Franciso Vasquez de Coronado crosses teh TExas Panhandle.
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A spanish treasure fleet shipwrecks off of present-dayPadre Island.
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Spaniard Hernan Gallegos writes about the lives of the Jumano Indians in Texas.
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Juan de Onate crosses the Texas Panhandle on his way to Quivira.
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Spaniards first record seeing Apache Indians riding horses
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A group of colonists led by French explorer René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle lands in Matagorda Bay in Texas
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The Spanish build a mission named San Francisco de los Tejas
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Martin de Alarcon establishes the San Antonio De Valero mission
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Settlers from the Canary Islands arrive in San Antonio
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Ranchers Tomas Sanchez establishes the town of Laredo
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The Marques de Rubi expedition begins.
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Antonio Gil Ybarbo founds the town of Nacogdoches in East Texas
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Spanish priest Juan Agustin Morfi, author of the history of Texas, 1673 – 1779, dies
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Philip Nolan, a US citizen, receives permission to capture wild horses in Texas
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US citizen James Long and a small force invade Texas, only to be defeated by Spanish forces
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Mexico, which includes Texas, wins its independence from Spain
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The Spanish government grants Moses Austin permission to found a colony in Texas
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Settler Jared Groce plants a cotton crop, possibly the first in Stephen F Austin's colony
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About 3000 Anglo settlers live in Texas without the permission of the Mexican government
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Empresario Martin de Leon settled families on the lower Guadalupe Bay River
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Officials adopt the Constitution of 1824, Coahuila and Texas are merged to form one state
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An American Indian attack on the green DeWitt colony forces settlers to flee Gonzales
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The Fredonian rebellion begins when Hayden Edwards declares independence from Mexico
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Stephen F Austin receives a contract to settle an additional 100 families in Texas
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General Manuel de Mier y Teran begins a two were of Texas for the Mexican government
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The Texas Gazette newspaper begins publication in Austin's colony
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Thomas J. Pilgrim organizes a Sunday school and private boys school in San Felipe
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President Guerrero iIssues a decree ending slavery in Mexico, but an exemption is made for Texas.
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On April 6 Mexico issues a law that changes rules on immigration and trade in Texas
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The town of Gonzales receives a cannon from the Mexican government to defend citizens against American Indian attacks.
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Mary Austin Holley's letters, describing life in early Texas, are published
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Velasco citizen hold a horse race on the coast near the town
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Texas farmers export some 7000 bales of cotton worth about $315,000 to New Orleans
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Stephen F Austin is arrested in Saltillo.
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An estimated 1000 U.S. immigrants enter Texas each month
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Texans become concerned when the Mexican government officially abolishes the Constitution of 1824.
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Texas settlers hold about 3500 land grants
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Texas settlers attack Mexican soldiers at Gonzalez, forcing them to leave.
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Texas troops push Mexican troops out of San Antonio, capturing the city
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Sam Houston becomes the first popularly elected president of the Republic of Texas
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The siege of the Alamo begins
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The Texas Declaration of Independence is adopted
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Texans win the battle of San Jacinto, ending the Texas Revolution
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The Texas government begins work in Houston, the new capital
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The U.s Congress authorizes a diplomat to go to Texas
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Texas elects Mirabeau B. Lamar president.
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william h wharton is elected to the Texas Senate
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Texas passes a homestead law, protecting settlers homes' From being seized to pay debts.
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Repeated attacks and discriminatetion foce more than 100 Tejano families to flee Nacogdoches
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France becomes the first Euopean nation to recognize country
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Austin, the new capital, has 850 residents
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the first college chartered by the Repudic,Rutersville College is founded
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Galveston University opens its doors to five students
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Texans again elect Sam Houston president of the Republic
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William Kennedy publishes Texas: The Rise Progress,and Prospecs of the Republis of Texas
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President Mirabeau B . Lemar send the Texas Navy to the yucatan coast
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Snider de Pellegrini director of a french colonization company bring 14 settlers to Texas
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General Adrian woll and about 1400 Mexican soldiers capture San Antonio
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Tehuacana Creek Councilslead to peace between Texans and several Texas Indian groups.
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Prince Carl of SolmsBraunfels come to Texas followed by a group of German immigrants
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Since troops into East Texas to end the Regulator-Moderator War.
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Texans elect Anson Jones president of the Pepublic
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At least 30,000 enslaveed African Americans live in Texas
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The United States annexes Texas
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1845
On December 29 the U.S. Congress officially admits Texas to the Union approves its first state constiution -
Texas signs a peace treaty with the Penataka Comanches.
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Thomas j. Rusk and Sam Houston become the first Texans to serve in the U.S Senate
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fighting breaks out between U.S forces and Mexican troops at palo Alto and Resaca
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Samuel H. Walker dies in combat during a conflict Mexico
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George T. Wood is elected governor of Texas
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A state census reports the state's population at more than 142,000.
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1848
Texans cast their first votes as U.S. Citizens in a presidential election -
The Texas population reaches 200,000 people
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In her book Texas in 1850, Melinda Rankin describes the state and urges people to move to Texas.
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Work begins on the Port Isabel Lighthouse. When completed, its light could be seen from 16 miles away
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U.S Army Troop abandon Fort Worth after settlers move farther west beyond the fout
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After many false starts, track is finally laid for the Buffalo Bayou, Brazos, and Colorado Railway.
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the American, or Know-Nothing party becomes active in Texas
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The Governor's Mansion is build in Austin
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Slaves in Colorado County acquire weapons and plan a rebellion, but the plot is discovered before it can begin.
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The Butterfield Overland Mail begins taking passengers and mail by stagecoach from Missouri, through Texas, and on to California.
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A Series of clashes occurs between Texas rangers and mexican Americans near Brownsville
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Texas produces a record crop of more than 400,000 bales of cotton.
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Sam Houston easily defeats incumbent Hardin Runnels in the Election for Texas governor
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The Texas Frontier Regiment is established.
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Texans vote, by more than three to one, to secede from the United States.
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Troops leave San Antonio for New Mexico, planning to capture the Southwest for the Confederacy.
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Union forces capture Galveston
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President Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation.
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The Texas Cattle population increases rapidly during the Civil War
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A Union attempt to invade Texas is turned back at Sabine Pass.
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Union troops capture Brownsville.
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Colonel Christopher "Kit" Carson leads an attack against Plains Indians in the Panhandle.
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Colonel christopher "Kit" carson leads an attack against Plain Indians in the Panhandle
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In a battle near Mansfield, Louisiana, Confederate forces stop a Union invasion of northeastern Texas.
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The Emancipation Proclamation goes into effect in Texas, freeing the state's slaves.
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The last land battle of the war is fought at Palmetto Ranch, Texas
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African American George T. Ruby is elected as a delegate to the Republican National Convention.
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Fort Richardson is established near Jacksboro
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Republican Edmund J. Davis is elected governor.
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Texas cowboys move a herd of 15,000 cattle to market. It is the largest single herd of the era
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A public school system is created in Texas.
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In 1873 Clarksville received 109.4 inches of rain
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Ranchers begin to ship thousands of cattle from Missouri Kansas-Texas Railroad extends a line there
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The Democratic Party regains full control of the state government.
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Plain Indain attack a group of buffalo hunters in the Battle of Adobe Walls
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Comanche leader Quanah Parker surrenders, ending the the red river War
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About 2,700 animals die during a cattle stampede near the brazos River
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1876
Texans adopt the constitution that governs the state today -
Texas adopts a new constitution.
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1876
Texas A&M University opens as an all-male military institution. -
Apache leader Victorio Llaunches raids along the Texas - Mexico border
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a ranch in the Panhandle purchases enough barbed wire to fence 250,000 acres
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1883
The University of Texas formally opens. -
1889
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1890
James Stephen Hogg– the first native born Texan to become governor– is elected -
1890
Texas Normal College and Teacher's Training Institutes, now called the University of North Texas, opens in Denton. -
1892
A leading association of farmers endorses the Populist Party. -
1894
the first football game is played between the University of Texas and Texas A&M. -
1894
Drillers strike oil in Corsicana. -
1898
Teddy Roosevelt organizes and trains the Rough Riders in San Antonio. -
1900
A hurricane hits Galveston, killing some 6,000 to 8,000 people. -
1901
The Spindletop well strikes oil, producing more than 17 million barrels of oil the next year. -
1901
The Spindletop oil strike spurs the growth of the Texas oil industry -
1902
The Corsican Oilers set a baseball record by defeating the Texarkana team 51 to 3 -
1905
A large oil strike is made in the humble oil field in Harris County. -
1907
The first Neiman Marcus department store opens in Dallas. -
1908
Oil is discovered at Goose Creek along Galveston Bay. -
1911
Jovita Idar becomes the first president of the League of Mexican Women. -
1914
The Houston Ship Channel opens, and Houston soon becomes an important oil-refining center. -
1914
The Houston Ship Channel is completed, leading to the growth of industry in the Houston area. -
1915
The Texas legislature passes the first state law requiring children to attend school -
1918
Texas ratifies the Eighteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which bans the sale or manufacture of alcohol. -
1918
Texas troops are sent to france to fight in World War I. -
1918
After decades of fighting for the right to vote, women are allowed to vote in Texas primary elections. -
1919
An application is file fro drill for oil on state-owned land in West Texas. Several years later the Santa Rita No. 1 strikes oil. -
1920
Governor William Hobby breaks a dockworks' strike in Galveston -
1924
Texans elect Miriam A. "Ma" Ferguson as the state's first female governor -
1926
Automobile registrations reach 1 Million -
1928
For the first time in the state's history, the majority of Texans vote for a Republican presidential – Herbert Hoover -
1934
James V Allred is elected governor of Texas -
The Highest recorded temperature in Texas was a blistering 120F,occurring in 1936 at Seymour and in 1994 at Monahans
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1938
Texans elect W. Lee "Pappy" O'Daniel as governor -
1939
The Southern Aircraft Corporation, the first airplane manufacturer in Texas, is formed -
1941
Large numbers of Texans volunteer for military service in World War II -
1944
A Texas law establishing white primaries is struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court in Smith v. Allwright -
1944
The U.S. Supreme Court declares the Texas white primary unconstitutional -
1945
Texan Audie Murphy receives the Medal of Honor for stopping a Germen tank attack in France -
1951
More than 3 million automobiles are registered in Texas -
1954
Allan Shiver successfully runs for a third term as governor -
1955
Women are allowed to serve on Texas juries for the first time -
Wink just 1.76 inches of rain in 1956
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1957
Texas women call for an equal rights amendment to the state constitution -
1959
Texas musician Buddy Holly is killed in a plane crash -
1960
The U.S. Supreme Court rules that Texas own Gulf coastal tidelands up to a 10.35 mile limit -
1961
Henry B. Gonzalez is elected to the U.S. House of Representatives and John Tower is elected to the U.S. Senate -
1961
The Manned Space Center, now the Johnson Space Center, is built in Houston -
1963
Lyndon B. Johnson becomes President of the United States after President John F. Kennedy is assasinated -
1967
Texas Instruments releases the first handheld calculator -
1967
Texas singer Janis Joplin's career takes off after a performance at the Monterey International Pop Festival -
1969
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration sends the Apollo 11 mission to the Moon -
1970
Members of the Chicano movement and the Mexican American Youth Organization form the La Raza Unida Party -
1972
Barbara Jordan is elected to the U.S. House of Representatives -
1972
Texan Barbara Jordan is elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. She is the first black woman from the South to serve in Congress -
1974
Austin City Limits goes on the air with Willie Nelson as its first guest musician -
1974
A major attempt to adopt a new Texas constitution fails -
Edmund J. Davis is elected governor, the last Republican to hold the office until Bill Clements was elected in 1978
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1980
The Texas population reaches 14 million -
1986
Raul Gonzalez is elected to the Texas Supreme Court. He is the first Mexican American elected to statewide office -
1986
Texas writer Larry McMurtry
receives the Pulitzer Prize for his novel Lonesome Dove -
1990
Texas musician Stevie Ray Vaughan is killed in a helicopter crasha is killed in a helicopter crash -
1994
The North American Free Trade Agreement is passed, easing trade among the United States, Mexico, and Canada -
1995
George W. Bush takes office as governor -
The lowest recorded temp in Texas was a chilly -23F, occurring in 1899 at Tulia and in 1933 at Seminole.
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2000
Rick Perry becomes the 47th governor of Texas -
2000
more than 230,000 people in more than 200 agencies, wit a two-year budget totaling more than $98 billion -
2002
Republicans gain control of the Texas House of Representatives -
2006
Texas becomes the national leader in wind power generation -
The Texas timber industry earned more than $1.9 billion in 2007
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2008
Rick Perry becomes the longest-serving governor in Texas history. He was elected governor again in 2010 -
2009
Cowboys Stadium, later renames AT&T Stadium, opens in Arlington -
2011
Texas receives its lowest ever recorded rainfall -
In 2011 the value of Texas cotton production reached over $1.5 billion
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In 2012 Texas produced about 730 million barrels of crude oil worth some $55 billion.
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Agriculture added some $36 billion to the Texas economy in 2012
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Texas exports of computers and electronics were worth more than $45 billlion in 2012
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2012
Based on the 2010 Census, Texas gains four new seats in Congress -
2012
Texas exports more than $124 billion worth of goods -
In 2012 there were more than 244,700 farms in Texas
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The Rio Grande, which begins in Colorado and flows along the Texas-mexico border, runs 1,896
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Guadalupe Peak is the highest point in the state, at 8749 feet above sea level
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Texas has an estimated 23 billion tons of lignite, a type of coal.
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More than 6 million aces of Texas land are irrigated
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The Ogallala Aquifer is the largest underground water source in Texas
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With 800,000 acres of land,Big Bend National park is the largest national park in Texas
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Caddo Lake is the largest natural lake in Texas covering more than 39 square miles {half of which are in Louisiana}
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Toledo Bend Reservoir on the Sabine River holds more than 5.5 billion cubic meters of water
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Texas contains more than 60 million acres of forests and woodlands
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