Posted on 04/08/2014 11:52:28 AM PDT by blam
This Incredible Map Shows Just How Gigantic Texas Really Is
Pamela Engel
April 8, 2014, 1:42 PM
Texans like to talk all the time about how big Texas is, and how if you're driving from the bottom of Texas to Canada, then you're spending half of your time just getting through the state itself.
So is that true? It's pretty close. Texas really is gigantic.
Redditor Armeleon put together a map that gives you a good idea of the massive size of Texas.
Texas spans about 800 miles from north to south. Everything seen in red on the map is closer than 791 miles to Texas (the longest straight-line distance in Texas from north to south is actually 801 miles, but Armeleon used 791 miles as a benchmark to create the map).
Check it out:
It's mind-boggling to think that, for example, Corpus Christi is closer to Cuba than it is to Denver.
It's worth noting that the map above is slightly distorted because it is flat and the world is spherical. The size and shape of objects seen on a flat map aren't exact.
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Driving west on I-10 into Texas from Louisiana, the mileage sign lists 998 miles to El Paso. I just want to know how much farther it is to Houston.
I've made that trip a hundred times and I thought the sign said 857 miles to El Paso.
Texarkana to Chicago ... 793 miles.
Texarkana to El Paso ... 813 miles.
Yeah, Texas is big.
Texas is not allowing the invasion……just the Feds, and some texas libs are...
They're like fire ants ... you get rid of one ant mound, 3 more pop up.
I am of the opinion that we need a constitutional amendment limiting the federal government’s ownership of lands within a state to no more than 20% of that state.
If you cut Alaska in half, Texas drops to Third largest State...
Just sayin’...
Wow. Those are cool. No, I have not. But I have been to the Jean Lafitte Pirate festival in LC.
Ewwww, it reaches to California.
Gross!!!
From Beaumont, Texas it is a shorter drive to the Atlantic Ocean, than to El Paso.
I've made that trip a hundred times and I thought the sign said 857 miles to El Paso.
I remember it being almost 1000 miles. Any other FReepers can settle this?
1. Which state is the most North?
2. Which state is the most South?
3. Which state is the most East?
4. Which state is the most West?
When I get rid of fire ants, I get rid of them. I make garlic tea, cool it off then pour it over the hill at 1100 Am when they bring the queen up.
It’s gone.
I don’t know where they go, but if everyone in the neighborhood does it they’ll end up somewhere they won’t interfere with residential life.
But I see unkempt, unattended fire ant hill all over the neighborhood.
Same as in the store, Costco, wherever, on the phone and I’m told that if I can’t speak Spanish there’s something wrong, and that’s from the Texans. NO. And I won’t give them more preferential treatment than they already have and they have a ton of it. And over combat veterans.
Rationalize it all you want. Its an invasion and the Texas tough ego is a paper tiger.
Yep. I had a truck like that, once.
It’s amazing how some folks can find something significant about a scarcity of state lines. If the admirable attitudes and values of today’s Texans were spread across six reasonable sized states that would translate to possibly ten more good senators.
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