Rolling Plains

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Rolling Plains is a vast region of gently undulating grasslands and rangelands in Texas, known for its ranching, agriculture, and transitional landscape between the High Plains and more wooded areas to the east.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Rolling Plains canonical 3
Rolling Plains of Texas 2

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (50)

Predicate Object
instanceOf physiographic region
region
averageAnnualPrecipitation about 18 to 28 inches
borderedBy Caprock Escarpment
Cross Timbers
Edwards Plateau
High Plains
linked to: High Plains region
climate hot summers
mild to cool winters
semiarid
containsCity Abilene
San Angelo
linked to: San Angelo, Texas

Snyder
Sweetwater
Vernon
Wichita Falls
containsCounty Jones County
Nolan County NERFINISHED
Scurry County NERFINISHED
Taylor County
Wichita County
Wilbarger County
country United States
ecoregionDesignation Texas Parks and Wildlife Rolling Plains ecoregion
elevationRange approximately 1,000 to 3,000 feet
knownFor cattle ranching
cotton production
oil and gas production
sorghum production
wheat production
landUse dryland farming
irrigated agriculture
ranching
rangeland
locatedIn Texas
central Texas
western Texas
majorRiver Brazos River
Colorado River of Texas
Red River
partOf Great Plains
soilType clay loams
sandy loams
terrain gently rolling
undulating grasslands
transitionalBetween High Plains
linked to: High Plains region

more wooded regions to the east
vegetation mesquite savanna
mixed grass prairie
shortgrass prairie

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (5)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

South Plains borderedBy Rolling Plains
Nolan County region Rolling Plains
Staked Plain borders Rolling Plains of Texas
linked to: Rolling Plains
Caprock Escarpment hasViewOver Rolling Plains of Texas
linked to: Rolling Plains