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Area codes | 806, 940 (Childress County) |
Website | Handbook of Texas: "Panhandle" |
The Texas panhandle is a region of the
The Handbook of Texas defines the southern border of Swisher County
as the southern boundary of the Texas Panhandle region.
Its land area is 25,823.89 sq mi (66,883.58 km2), or nearly 10% of the state's total. The Texas Panhandle is slightly larger in size than the US
2010 census was 427,927 residents, or 1.7% of the state's total population. As of the 2010 census, the population density for the region was 16.6 per square mile (6.4/km2). However, more than 72% of the Panhandle's residents live in the Amarillo Metropolitan Area, which is the largest and fastest-growing urban area in the region. The Panhandle is distinct from North Texas
, which is further south and east.
West of the
reservoir created by Sanford Dam constructed on the main stem of the Canadian River. Lake Meredith and the Ogallala Aquifer are the primary sources of freshwater in this semi-arid region of the High Plains
.
Interstate Highway 40 passes through the Panhandle, and also passes through Amarillo. The freeway passes through Deaf Smith, Oldham, Potter, Carson, Gray, Donley, and Wheeler Counties.[1]
Demographics
As of the
65 years of age or older, whereas 27.8% of the population was under 18 years of age
.
Counties
The twenty-six counties of the Panhandle (west to east, from the northwest corner) are:[3][4]
Cities and towns
Major cities of the Texas Panhandle with populations greater than 10,000 include:
Some of the smaller towns with populations less than 10,000 include:
- Booker
- Bovina
- Cactus
- Canadian
- Channing
- Childress
- Clarendon
- Claude
- Dalhart
- Darrouzett
- Dimmitt
- Dodson
- Follett
- Friona
- Fritch
- Groom
- Gruver
- Happy
- Hartley
- Higgins
- Lefors
- Masterson
- McLean
- Memphis
- Mobeetie
- Panhandle
- Perryton
- Sanford
- Shamrock
- Silverton
- Spearman
- Stinnett
- Stratford
- Sunray
- Texline
- Tulia
- Turkey
- Vega
- Wellington
- Wheeler
- White Deer
Gallery
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Amarillo is the largest city in the Texas Panhandle.
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Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum in Canyon, Texas
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The Dallam County Courthouse in Dalhart, Texas
See also
- Antelope Creek phase
- Buffalo Lake National Wildlife Refuge
- Caprock Escarpment
- List of geographical regions in Texas
- List of airports in the Texas Panhandle
- Llano Estacado
- Oklahoma Panhandle
- Palo Duro Canyon
- Prairie Dog Town Fork Red River
- Texas State Highway 207
- West Texas
- National Register of Historic Places listings in the High Plains region of Texas
References
- ^ The Tascosa Pioneer, October 11, 1890, quoted in Lester Fields Sheffy, The Life and Times of Timothy Dwight Hobart, 1855–1935: Colonization of West Texas (Canyon, Texas: Panhandle-Plains Historical Society, 1950), p. 156
- ^ "The Regions of Texas". Texas Counties.net. Retrieved July 26, 2022.
- ^ Counties of the Texas Panhandle United States Census Bureau
- ^ "PANHANDLE". Texas State Historical Association. Retrieved October 13, 2014.
External links
Wikivoyage has a travel guide for Texas Panhandle.