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What is the definitive boundary line for West Texas?

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Hewey Calloway

7:29p, 5/3/24

KoolHandLuke said:
As mentioned above, 277 would be a solid East -West Boundary that would end up with Northern boundary in San Angelo, and then making a line straight over to Midland/Odessa and on to NM. I'm pretty sure most folks would accept that. But then again you always have the people who argue that Lubbock is West Texas, and it damn sure isn't. Of course I'm from West of The Pecos, so I think anything on the other side of the river is questionable.

This is the correct answer.

fixer

1:02p, 5/30/24

Eastern edge of panhandle, draw a line straight down, just east of del rio. Everything west of that is West Texas in my view. It isn't a perfect definition but dang close.

LukeDuke

12:24a, 6/3/24

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UTExan

5:15p, 6/3/24

Wiki: West Texas

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GordonWood

8:37a, 6/8/24

In reply to VP at Pierce and Pierce

VP at Pierce and Pierce said:
fuzzyfan said:
Abilene south to Del Rio. Abilene to Lubbock. Pecos to Marathon.
Anything north of Snyder and Lamesa and Seminole is The Plains. I do consider Abilene to be the furthest point east of West Texas.

IMHO the railroad overpass where 67 leaves Santa Anna heading to Ballinger marks the Easternmost point in West Texas

jja79

11:37p, 6/8/24

In reply to GordonWood

Not to people from west Texas.

VP at Pierce and Pierce

4:46p, 6/10/24

In reply to GordonWood

GordonWood said:
VP at Pierce and Pierce said:
fuzzyfan said:
Abilene south to Del Rio. Abilene to Lubbock. Pecos to Marathon.
Anything north of Snyder and Lamesa and Seminole is The Plains. I do consider Abilene to be the furthest point east of West Texas.
IMHO the railroad overpass where 67 leaves Santa Anna heading to Ballinger marks the Easternmost point in West Texas

I dont know about that. That is a little far east of West Texas in my eyes. Ballinger is a the edge of hill country in my eyes. Santa Anna is too far east to me. Ballinger has small cliffs and rocky terrain, too much water and vegetation for West Texas.

GordonWood

10:39a, 6/11/24

In reply to VP at Pierce and Pierce

It is more visual than geographical. When you look west from that spot you feel like you are leaving civilization behind for good, especially of you are heading into a sunset. Lost Pines in Bastrop is not East Texas either, but it feels like it when you're there.

jja79

9:40p, 6/21/24

In reply to GordonWood

Are you saying west Texas isn't civilization?

I asked my 95 year old mother who moved to Balmorhea 74 years ago her thought. Sterling City down to Barnhart down to Ozona

GordonWood

8:05a, 6/23/24

In reply to jja79

jja79 said:
Are you saying west Texas isn't civilization?

I asked my 95 year old mother who moved to Balmorhea 74 years ago her thought. Sterling City down to Barnhart down to Ozona

of course there is civilization in West Texas! However, if the discussion is cultural, rather than geographical, the line has to be drawn further east, based on the following evidence!

WolfCall

9:12p, 10/18/24

The eastern beginning of West Texas is a line from Corpus Christi to San Antonio to Llano to Graham to Archer City to Wichita Falls.

Everything to the west of that line all the way to the Pacific Ocean is West Texas.

TequilaMockingbird

11:49p, 10/20/24

In reply to GordonWood

GordonWood said:
jja79 said:
Are you saying west Texas isn't civilization?

I asked my 95 year old mother who moved to Balmorhea 74 years ago her thought. Sterling City down to Barnhart down to Ozona
of course there is civilization in West Texas! However, if the discussion is cultural, rather than geographical, the line has to be drawn further east, based on the following evidence!

That's a lot of chimichangas!

WolfCall

3:28p, 10/31/24

In reply to GordonWood

GordonWood said:
VP at Pierce and Pierce said:
fuzzyfan said:
Abilene south to Del Rio. Abilene to Lubbock. Pecos to Marathon.
Anything north of Snyder and Lamesa and Seminole is The Plains. I do consider Abilene to be the furthest point east of West Texas.
IMHO the railroad overpass where 67 leaves Santa Anna heading to Ballinger marks the Easternmost point in West Texas

I think the definitions many are using apply to Far West Texas. Also disagree with those who think The Plains are not West Texas. Also think much of South Texas is West Texas.

Ogre09

1:33p, 1/13/25

In a broad sense, West Texas is about half the state from just west of Wichita Falls, down through Abilene, Eden, Sonora, and Comstock and all points westward. Wichita Falls, Brownwood, Junction, and Del Rio aren't in it.

In a narrower sense, the eastern edge of all of that is borderline and questionable. Everything west of the Pecos is it's own Trans-Pecos region. And all the high plains farmland from Seminole and Lamesa northwards is it's own region as well.

pinche gringo

4:47p, 1/14/25

The Pecos River

Azeew

10:12p, 1/25/25

In reply to Waiting on a Natty

SW AG80 said:
A line from Swee****er down through San Angelo and on to Sonora would be the eastern boundary of west Texas.

Cross a line from Mentone down to Pecos, Ft. Stockton, and Sanderson puts one in far west Texas.

LOL SweeTW@Ter = Swee****er.

jja79

9:48p, 1/29/25

In reply to pinche gringo

pinche gringo said:
The Pecos River

As someone from west of the Pecos I agree.

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