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SOIL SURVEY OF LUBBOCK COUNTY, TEXAS.
by J. 0. VEATCH, In Charge, and H. G. LEWIS.-Area Inspected by HUGH H.
BENNETT.
DESCRIPTION OF THE AREA.
Lubbock County is situated in central-western Texas, its western
boundary being about 60 miles from the New Mexico State line.
Lubbock, the county seat, is, by rail, 377 miles west of Dallas. The
county is bounded on the north by Hale County, on the east by
Crosby County, on the south by Lynn County, and on the west by
Hockley County. It has an area of 868 square miles, or 555,520
acres.
Lubbock County is I
situated in the High
Plains, in the division
known as the Llanol ~
Estacado. It lies in the
region locally known
as the South Plains, as
distinguished from the
Panhandle or northern
part of the High
Plains of the State.
The topography in
general is that of a
nearly level, featureless
plain. (P1. I, fig.
1.) The altitude of FIa. 1.'-Sketch map showing location of the Lubbock
1.) The altitude oCounty area, Texas.
the plain in the central
part of the county is near 3,250 feet above sea level. The
general slope is eastward and southward, the elevation being 3,350
or 3,400 feet in the extreme western and northwestern parts of the
county and about 3,150 feet in the southeastern part.
The land surface is a plain of deposition, representing, with
little modification, the original surface of a great sheet of sediment
carried down by streams from the Cordilleran region to the west in
late Tertiary and Pleistocene times. The land surface is therefore
e tmp yrively recent. In this area there has been scarcely -any
drainage way or stream development.
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