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Galveston Island lies across the entrance to Galveston Bay, an inlet of the Gulf of Mexico. Long causeways connect the city with the mainland, Houston, and Texas City.
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For most small towns, this is the first time a printed street map has been available. The street map of Galveston, Texas is a great gift for any collector of hometown maps & memorabilia. One will spend hours discovering their hometown with this wall map. The 18 inch map is suitable for framing. *NOTE* Actual map is much more crisp than images above. We are constantly updating our roads and town boundaries. Actual street map may vary slightly from samples above.
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For most small towns, this is the first time a printed street map has been available. The street map of Galveston, Texas is a great gift for any collector of hometown maps & memorabilia. One will spend hours discovering their hometown with this wall map. The 18 inch map is suitable for framing. *NOTE* Actual map is much more crisp than images above. We are constantly updating our roads and town boundaries. Actual street map may vary slightly from samples above.
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Houston lies near the Gulf of Mexico and sprawls westward from the shores of Galveston Bay on the coastal prairie of eastern Texas. Major waterways include the San Jacinto River, part of which is encompassed by the man-made Houston Ship Channel, and an intricate network of meandering creeks and bayous, the largest of which are Buffalo Bayou and Bray's Bayou.
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The cities of Dallas and Fort Worth are the anchor cities of the Metroplex. Dallas and its suburbs have one of the highest concentrations of corporate headquarters in the United States. The Metroplex also contains the largest Information Technology industry base in the state (often referred to as Silicon Prairie), owing to the large number of corporate IT projects and the presence of numerous electronics, computing and telecom firms
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Austin is located in south central Texas, where the Colorado River crosses the Balcones Escarpment, separating the Texas Hill Country from the black-land prairies to the east. The Colorado River flows through the heart of the city, creating a series of sparkling lakes that stretch for more than 100 miles.
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Lubbock is the ninth-largest city in the state of Texas, located in the northwestern part of the state, a region known historically as the Llano Estacado.
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In 1519, on the Roman Catholic Feast Day of Corpus Christi, Spanish explorer Alonzo Alvarez de Pineda discovered a lush semi-tropical bay on what is now the southern coast of Texas. The bay, and the city that later sprung up there, took the name of the feast day celebrating the Body of Christ.
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Catch a wave in this high resolution ASTER satellite scene of Port Aransas, Aransas Pass and Mustang Island from November 2006. Mustang Island was named after the wild horses that populated the island after their introduction to the area by the Spanish in the early 1800s. The town of Port Aransas, Texas is located at the northern end of the island. Mustang Island State Park encompasses the entire southern third of the island, including 3954 acres (16 km²) and 5 miles (8 km) of beach.
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Established by cattlemen as a stock shipping point on the Texas and Pacific Railway in 1881, the city was named after Abilene, Kansas, the original endpoint for the Chisholm Trail.
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Wichita Falls is home to Sheppard Air Force Base and is located 15 miles south of the Oklahoma border.
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Beaumont is on Texas's coastal plain, about 30 miles inland from the Gulf of Mexico, and just south of the dense pine forests of East Texas. The city is bordered on the east by the Neches River and to the north by Pine Island Bayou.
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College Station is home to the main campus of Texas A&M University, one of the premiere universities of Texas. The city owes both its name and existence to the university's location along the railroad.
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This detailed image depicts Lake Lavon and Lake Ray Hubbard located just east of Plano and Garland, TX. Both lakes are impounds of the East Fork of the Trinity River.
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Once in a lifetime capture of snowfall in South Texas extending all the way to the Mexican border on Christmas Day, 2004. Record snowfall covered southern and eastern Texas on December 25, 2004, in this true-color Terra MODIS image. Anywhere from two to six inches of snow accumulated on an otherwise tropical area. This was the first snow accumulation in Brownsville, Texas (the southernmost American city along the US-Mexico border) in 109 years. Just days after the snow fell, temperatures rose back...
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