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62 relations: Administrative divisions of Texas, African Americans, Alaska Natives, Angelo State University, Antonio de Espejo, Area code 432, Asian Americans, Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Big Bend Ranch State Park, Central Time Zone, Chihuahua (state), Chihuahua City, Comanche, Desert Research Institute, El Paso, Texas, Electric power transmission, Farm to Market Road 170, Federal Information Processing Standards, Fort Leaton State Historic Site, Geographic Names Information System, Hispanic and Latino Americans, Juan Sabeata, Jumanos, Kansas City, Mexico and Orient Railway, La Junta Indians, Lipan Apache people, List of counties in Texas, List of diplomatic missions of Mexico, Lubbock, Texas, Mexican–American War, Milton Faver, Multiracial Americans, Native Americans in the United States, Non-Hispanic whites, North American Numbering Plan, Odessa College, Odessa, Texas, Ojinaga, Pancho Villa, Per capita income, Poverty threshold, Presidio County, Texas, Presidio Independent School District, Presidio–Ojinaga International Bridge, Presidio–Ojinaga International Rail Bridge, Pueblo, Race and ethnicity in the United States census, Rio Bravo (film), Rio Conchos, Rio Conchos (film), ... Expand index (12 more) »
1684 establishments in New Spain
Rio Conchos
Texas populated places on the Rio Grande

Administrative divisions of Texas

The U.S. state of Texas has a total of 254 counties, many cities, and numerous special districts, the most common of which is the independent school district.

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African Americans

African Americans, also known as Black Americans or Afro-Americans, are an ethnic group consisting of Americans with partial or total ancestry from any of the Black racial groups of Africa.

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Alaska Natives (also known as Alaskan Indians, Alaskan Natives, Native Alaskans, Indigenous Alaskans, Aboriginal Alaskans or First Alaskans) are the Indigenous peoples of Alaska and include Alaskan Creoles, Iñupiat, Yupik, Aleut, Eyak, Tlingit, Haida, Tsimshian, and a number of Northern Athabaskan cultures.

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Angelo State University

Angelo State University is a public university in San Angelo, Texas.

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Antonio de Espejo

Antonio de Espejo (1540–1585) was a Spanish explorer who led an expedition, accompanied by Diego Perez de Luxan, into New Mexico and Arizona in 1582–83. Presidio, Texas and Antonio de Espejo are rio Conchos.

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Area code 432

Area code 432 is a telephone area code in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for the U.S. state of Texas in the Permian Basin and Trans-Pecos areas (excluding the El Paso metropolitan area), including the cities of Midland, Odessa, and Alpine.

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Asian Americans

Asian Americans are Americans of Asian ancestry (including naturalized Americans who are immigrants from specific regions in Asia and descendants of those immigrants).

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Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca

Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca (1488/90/92"Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar Núñez (1492?-1559?)." American Eras. Vol. 1: Early American Civilizations and Exploration to 1600. Detroit: Gale, 1997. 50-51. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 10 December 2014. after 19 May 1559) was a Spanish explorer of the New World, and one of four survivors of the 1527 Narváez expedition.

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Big Bend Ranch State Park

Big Bend Ranch State Park is a state park located on the Rio Grande in Brewster and Presidio counties, Texas.

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Central Time Zone

The North American Central Time Zone (CT) is a time zone in parts of Canada, the United States, Mexico, Central America and some Caribbean islands.

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Chihuahua (state)

Chihuahua, officially the Estado Libre y Soberano de Chihuahua (Free and Sovereign State of Chihuahua), is one of the 31 states which, along with Mexico City, comprise the 32 federal entities of Mexico.

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Chihuahua City

The city of Chihuahua or Chihuahua City (Ciudad de Chihuahua; Lipan: Ją’éłąyá) is the state capital of the Mexican state of Chihuahua.

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Comanche

The Comanche or Nʉmʉnʉʉ (Nʉmʉnʉʉ, "the people") is a Native American tribe from the Southern Plains of the present-day United States.

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Desert Research Institute

Desert Research Institute (DRI) is the nonprofit research campus of the Nevada System of Higher Education (NSHE) and sister property of the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR), the organization that oversees all publicly supported higher education in the U.S. state of Nevada.

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El Paso, Texas

El Paso is a city in and the county seat of El Paso County, Texas, United States. Presidio, Texas and El Paso, Texas are Mexico–United States border crossings and Texas populated places on the Rio Grande.

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Electric power transmission

Electric power transmission is the bulk movement of electrical energy from a generating site, such as a power plant, to an electrical substation.

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Farm to Market Road 170

Farm to Market Road 170 (FM 170) is a highway maintained by the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) in Presidio and Brewster counties in Texas.

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Federal Information Processing Standards

The Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) of the United States are a set of publicly announced standards that the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has developed for use in computer situs of non-military United States government agencies and contractors.

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Fort Leaton State Historic Site

The Fort Leaton State Historic Site is located on Farm to Market Road 170, in Presidio County in the U.S. state of Texas.

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Geographic Names Information System

The Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) is a database of name and location information about more than two million physical and cultural features throughout the United States and its territories; the associated states of the Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, and Palau; and Antarctica.

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Hispanic and Latino Americans

Hispanic and Latino Americans (Estadounidenses hispanos y latinos; Estadunidenses hispânicos e latinos) are Americans of full or partial Spanish and/or Latin American background, culture, or family origin.

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Juan Sabeata

Juan Sabeata (c. 1645–c. 1692) was a Jumano Indian leader in present day Texas who tried to forge an alliance with the Spanish or French to help his people fend off the encroachments of the Apaches on their territory.

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Jumanos

Jumanos were a tribe or several tribes, who inhabited a large area of western Texas, New Mexico, and northern Mexico, especially near the Junta de los Rios region with its large settled Indigenous population.

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Kansas City, Mexico and Orient Railway

The Kansas City, Mexico and Orient Railway, started in 1900 by American railroad entrepreneur Arthur Edward Stilwell, was the predecessor of the Chihuahua al Pacífico railroad in Mexico.

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La Junta Indians

La Junta Indians is a collective name for the various Indians living in the area known as La Junta de los Rios ("the confluence of the rivers": the Rio Grande and the Conchos River) on the borders of present-day West Texas and Mexico.

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Lipan Apache people

Lipan Apache are a band of Apache, a Southern Athabaskan Indigenous people, who have lived in the Southwest and Southern Plains for centuries.

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List of counties in Texas

The U.S. state of Texas is divided into 254 counties, more than any other U.S. state.

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List of diplomatic missions of Mexico

This is a list of diplomatic missions of Mexico, excluding honorary consulates.

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Lubbock, Texas

Lubbock is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the county seat of Lubbock County.

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Mexican–American War

The Mexican–American War, also known in the United States as the Mexican War, and in Mexico as the United States intervention in Mexico, was an invasion of Mexico by the United States Army from 1846 to 1848.

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Milton Faver

Milton Faver (c. 1822–1889) was a pioneering cattle rancher in Presidio County, Texas, the preeminent cattle baron of the Big Bend in the nineteenth century, and one of the most important individual contributors to Big Bend history.

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Multiracial Americans

Multiracial Americans or mixed-race Americans are Americans who have mixed ancestry of two or more races. The term may also include Americans of mixed-race ancestry who self-identify with just one group culturally and socially (cf. the one-drop rule). In the 2020 United States census, 33.8 million individuals or 10.2% of the population, self-identified as multiracial.

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Native Americans in the United States

Native Americans, sometimes called American Indians, First Americans, or Indigenous Americans, are the Indigenous peoples native to portions of the land that the United States is located on.

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Non-Hispanic whites

Non-Hispanic Whites or Non-Latino Whites are White Americans classified by the United States census as "white" and not Hispanic.

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North American Numbering Plan

The North American Numbering Plan (NANP) is a telephone numbering plan for twenty-five regions in twenty countries, primarily in North America and the Caribbean.

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Odessa College

Odessa College is a public junior college in Odessa, Texas.

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Odessa, Texas

Odessa is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the seat of Ector County with portions extending into Midland County.

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Ojinaga

Ojinaga (Manuel Ojinaga) is a town and seat of the municipality of Ojinaga, in the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua. Presidio, Texas and Ojinaga are rio Conchos.

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Pancho Villa

Francisco "Pancho" Villa (born José Doroteo Arango Arámbula; 5 June 1878 – 20 July 1923) was a Mexican revolutionary and general in the Mexican Revolution.

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Per capita income

Per capita income (PCI) or average income measures the average income earned per person in a given area (city, region, country, etc.) in a specified year.

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Poverty threshold

The poverty threshold, poverty limit, poverty line, or breadline is the minimum level of income deemed adequate in a particular country.

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Presidio County, Texas

Presidio County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas.

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Presidio Independent School District

Presidio Independent School District is a public school district based in Presidio, Texas (USA).

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Presidio–Ojinaga International Bridge

The Presidio–Ojinaga International Bridge, also known simply as the Presidio Bridge and Puente Ojinaga, is an international bridge that crosses the Rio Grande (Río Bravo) between the cities of Presidio, Texas, and Ojinaga, Chihuahua, on the United States–Mexico border.

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Presidio–Ojinaga International Rail Bridge

The Presidio–Ojinaga International Rail Bridge (also known as the Presidio Rail Bridge or the Puente Ferro Carril Ojinaga) is an international bridge that crosses the Rio Grande (Río Bravo) between the cities of Presidio, Texas, and Ojinaga, Chihuahua, on the United States-Mexico border.

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Pueblo

Pueblo refers to the settlements and to the Native American tribes of the Pueblo peoples in the Southwestern United States, currently in New Mexico, Arizona, and Texas.

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Race and ethnicity in the United States census

In the United States census, the U.S. Census Bureau and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) define a set of self-identified categories of race and ethnicity chosen by residents, with which they most closely identify.

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Rio Bravo (film)

Rio Bravo is a 1959 American Western film directed and produced by Howard Hawks and starring John Wayne, Dean Martin, Ricky Nelson, Angie Dickinson, Walter Brennan, and Ward Bond.

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Rio Conchos

The Río Conchos (Conchos River) is a large river in the Mexican state of Chihuahua.

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Rio Conchos (film)

Rio Conchos is a 1964 American Cinemascope Western film directed by Gordon Douglas and starring Richard Boone, Stuart Whitman, Anthony Franciosa, Edmond O'Brien, and in his motion picture debut, Jim Brown, based on Clair Huffaker's novel "Guns of Rio Conchos" published in 1958. Presidio, Texas and Rio Conchos (film) are rio Conchos.

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Rio Grande

The Rio Grande in the United States or the Río Bravo (del Norte) in Mexico, also known as P’osoge in Tewa and Tó Ba’áadi in Navajo, is one of the principal rivers (along with the Colorado River) in the southwestern United States and in northern Mexico.

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Shafter, Texas

Shafter is a ghost town in Presidio County, Texas, United States.

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Sierra Madre Occidental

The Sierra Madre Occidental is a major mountain range system of the North American Cordillera, that runs northwest–southeast through northwestern and western Mexico, and along the Gulf of California.

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Sodium–sulfur battery

A sodium–sulfur (NaS) battery is a type of molten-salt battery that uses liquid sodium and liquid sulfur electrodes.

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Texas

Texas (Texas or Tejas) is the most populous state in the South Central region of the United States.

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Texas Education Agency

The Texas Education Agency (TEA) is the branch of the government of Texas responsible for public education in Texas in the United States.

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U.S. Route 67 in Texas

U.S. Route 67 (US 67) is a major U.S. highway in the state of Texas.

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United States Census Bureau

The United States Census Bureau (USCB), officially the Bureau of the Census, is a principal agency of the U.S. Federal Statistical System, responsible for producing data about the American people and economy.

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West Texas Historical Association

The West Texas Historical Association is an organization of both academics and laypersons dedicated to the preservation and dissemination of the total history of West Texas, loosely defined geographically as all Texas counties and portions of counties located west of Interstate 35.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidio,_Texas

Also known as History of Presidio, Texas, La Junta de los Rios, Presidio, TX, UN/LOCODE:USPRE.

, Rio Grande, Shafter, Texas, Sierra Madre Occidental, Sodium–sulfur battery, Texas, Texas Education Agency, U.S. Route 67 in Texas, United States Census Bureau, West Texas Historical Association, Western Regional Climate Center, ZIP Code, 2020 United States census.

Presidio, Texas, the Glossary

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1684 establishments in New Spain

Rio Conchos

Texas populated places on the Rio Grande

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