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Touring Santa Rita in United States

Santa Rita in the region of Texas is a city located in United States - some 1,484 mi or ( 2388 km ) West of Washington , the country's capital city .

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Time in Santa Rita is now 06:40 PM (Sunday) . The local timezone is named " America/Chicago " with a UTC offset of -5 hours. Depending on your travel resources, these more prominent places might be interesting for you: Austin, Laredo, San Antonio, Amarillo, and Andrews. Being here already, consider visiting Austin . Check out our recommendations for Santa Rita ? We have collected some references on our attractions page.


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Santa Rita, Texas

Santa Rita, Texas, now a ghost town, was a town near Brownsville, Texas in Cameron County, Texas, United States. It is believed to have been the first government seat in the county in 1848, and perhaps the earliest town to have been named by English-speaking people from the area. Around the late 1700s, this area was a ranching community, even before the city of Matamoros, Tamaulipas was established in 1826.

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Located at 31.22 -101.66 (Lat./Long.); Less than 0 km away
Tags: Geography of Cameron County, Texas, Ghost towns in South Texas

Texon, Texas

Texon is a small unincorporated town in Reagan County, Texas, United States, in the western part of the state. The town is noted for its boom as an oil town and subsequent near abandonment.

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Located at 31.23 -101.69 (Lat./Long.); Less than 3 km away
Tags: Ghost towns in West Texas, Populated places in Reagan County, Texas

Best, Texas

Best is an unincorporated town in southwestern Reagan County in the western part of the U.S. state of Texas. It was portrayed in the Clyde Ragsdale novel “The Big Fist”.

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Located at 31.22 -101.62 (Lat./Long.); Less than 3 km away
Tags: Ghost towns in West Texas, Populated places established in 1924, Populated places in Reagan County, Texas

Grierson Spring, TX

Grierson Spring is a historic seep spring located in the southwestern part of Reagan County, Texas, approximately 12.5 miles southwest of the community of Big Lake, and is part of the eastern tributary arrangement of Live Oak Draw, itself a part of the Pecos River drainage system. The small spring now shows limited, seasonal flow only in wet years, but, before settlement of the area, was the only permanent water in Reagan County and the surrounding area.

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Located at 31.13 -101.66 (Lat./Long.); Less than 11 km away
Tags: Geography of Reagan County, Texas, Springs of Texas

Big Lake (Texas)

Big Lake is an intermittent dry lake located one-mile (1.6 km) south and southwest of the city of Big Lake in Reagan County, Texas. Covering approximately 1,300 acres, the playa lies in a floodplain and is fed primarily by Big Lake Draw and a number of other, unnamed smaller draws. Scrub brush, mesquite, juniper, grasses, and water-tolerant hardwoods grow around the lake.

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Located at 31.17 -101.48 (Lat./Long.); Less than 18 km away
Tags: Geography of Reagan County, Texas, Lakes of Texas