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2 unusual facts about Central Texas


Jason Krizan

At Pflugerville, he was named to the All-District Baseball Team all four years, the All-Central Texas Baseball Team as a junior in 2006 and as a senior in 2007, and the All-State Baseball Team by the Texas Sports Writers Association as a junior.

Nikki Loftin

Born and raised in Central Texas, she attended The University of Texas at Austin for both her Bachelor of Arts (French, BA, '92) and Master of Arts (English/Fiction Writing, MA, '98) degrees.


Coach Carter Impact Academy

The Coach Carter Impact Academy is an unconventional boarding school that was founded by Ken "Coach" Carter in 2009 in the small Central Texas town of Marlin.

Golden-cheeked Warbler

The Golden-cheeked Warbler also known as the gold finch of Texas(Setophaga chrysoparia) is an endangered species of bird that breeds in Central Texas, from Palo Pinto County southwestward along the eastern and southern edge of the Edwards Plateau to Kinney County.

Muk-wah-ruh

Muk-Wah-Ruh (Death March 19, 1840) was a 19th-century Comanche Chief in Central Texas.

William B. Murphy

Born in Mexia, a small city in Central Texas' Limestone County, William B. Murphy was 41 when his name first appeared in film credits as co-editor (with Richard Cahoon) of the independently-produced 1949 B-western, Massacre River, released by United Artists.


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Arlene Wohlgemuth

Wohlgemuth served as a Representative from District 58 in the Texas House of Representatives in the Seventy-fourth through Seventy-eighth Texas Legislatures representing Bosque and Johnson counties in north central Texas.

Boer goat

United States production is centered in west-central Texas, particularly in and around San Angelo and Menard.

Clarkoceras

In North America Clarkoceras is found in early Lower Ordovician, Gasconadian age shallow marine sediments near Smith Basin, State of New York, the Llano Uplift of Central Texas, and the El Paso Group of the eastern Rocky Mountains of Trans-Pecos Texas and Southern New Mexico.

Da'shade Moonbeam

In addition, he has featured at many venues throughout the U.S., including Chicago's Green Mill, The Nuyorican Poets Café in New York City, and throughout central Texas, including the Hip Hop Theater Explosion.

Dick Clark Architecture

The majority of the work is in central Texas; notable individual clients include Willie Nelson and Jerry Jeff Walker.

German Americans in the Civil War

In the spring of 1862, German Texans from Central Texas and the Texas Hill Country, mostly Unionist or neutral in their political views, were drafted into the Confederate Army over their strong objections.

Goodwill Industries

Goodwill Industries International and Goodwill Industries of Central Texas (Austin) hosted their first pop-up retail shop, POP!, at South by Southwest in 2013.

Howard D. Graves

During his tenure as chancellor, Texas A&M added three new universities to its system, Texas A&M University–San Antonio, Tarleton State University-Central Texas in Killeen, West Texas A & M University in Canyon, Texas.

John Symank

Symank's family was of Wendish descent, a Slavic group that emigrated to Central Texas in the mid-nineteenth century from Germany.

KAGS-LD

KAGS-LD (branded on-air as KAGS-HD) is the NBC affiliate for the Brazos Valley of Central Texas, licensed to Bryan.

Lampsilis bracteata

Historically the Texas fatmucket had populations in at least 18 rivers in the upper Colorado, Guadalupe, and San Antonio River systems in central Texas.

Late-March 2007 tornado outbreak

It developed in the High Plains from South Dakota to central Texas on March 28, 2007, which produced most of the tornadoes.

Lorentziella

The genus contains a single species Lorentziella imbricatum known from central Texas, Mexico, and South America (Argentina, Paraguay, & Uruguay).

Oncor Electric Delivery

Predecessor companies include Dallas Power & Light (DP&L), which served the city of Dallas; Texas Electric Service Company (TESCO), which served areas surrounding Fort Worth; and Texas Power and Light (TP&L), which served other areas of northern and west-central Texas.

It supplies electricity to approximately 7.5 million consumers in a service area of over 400 communities in east, west and north-central Texas, including Dallas, Fort Worth, Midland, Odessa, Killeen, Waco, Wichita Falls and Tyler.

Pachycheilosuchus

The remains were recovered near the top of the Glen Rose Formation of Erath County in central Texas, in rocks dating from the early Albian faunal stage.

Pterospoda nigrescens

It occurs at moderate elevations in arid scrub and open woodland habitat, ranging from south-eastern Arizona and the Edwards Plateau of west-central Texas south to at least Durango, Mexico.

Robert T. Hill

As a pioneer Texas geologist, Hill discovered and named the Comanche Series of the Lower Cretaceous, and was a lifelong student of the structure and stratigraphy of the Cretaceous deposits of Central Texas and neighboring regions.

This discovery propelled Hill into a lifelong interest in the Cretaceous period – a period when Central Texas was covered by a shallow sea.

Texas Public Radio

Texas Public Radio, or TPR is the on-air name for a group of public radio stations serving south central Texas - including San Antonio and the Texas Hill Country - and the Big Country region of West Central Texas.

Valley Council

Brazos Valley Council of Governments, a voluntary association of cities, counties and special districts in the Brazos Valley region of Central Texas

Western short grasslands

It is located in eastern, northern, and central Montana, eastern Wyoming, western Nebraska (the Nebraska Panhandle), eastern Colorado, western Kansas, western Oklahoma (the Oklahoma Panhandle), eastern New Mexico, the Texas Panhandle and parts of west-central Texas and a very small portion of southwestern South Dakota.