Blackland Prairie
The Texas Blackland Prairies are a temperate grassland ecoregion located in Texas that runs roughly 300 miles from the Red River in North Texas to San Antonio in the south.
Essential Destinations
Top destinations: Waco and McKinney.
McKinney
McKinney is a city in and the county seat of Collin County, Texas, United States.
Destinations to Discover
Places to explore: Waxahachie and Temple.
Greenville
Corsicana
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Fairfield
Fairfield is a city and county seat of Freestone County, Texas, United States.
Blackland Prairie
- Type: Level III ecoregion
- Description: ecoregion in Texas, United States
- Also known as: “Black Land Counties”, “Level III ecoregion 32”, “Texas Blackland Prairie”, “Texas Blackland Prairies”, “Texas Blackland Prairies (EPA)”, “Texas Blackland Prairies (WWF)”, “Texas Blackland Prairies ecoregion”, “مُرُوجُ بَادِيَةِ تِكْسَاسَ”, and “德克萨斯黑土大草原”
- Category: WWF ecoregion
- Location: Prairies and Lakes, Texas, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude of center
32° north
Longitude of center
-96° or 96° west
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Blackland Prairie” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “مروج بادية تكساس”
- Chinese: “黑地草原”
- French: “Prairies de Blackland”
- Malayalam: “ടെക്സസ് ബ്ലാക്ക്ലാൻഡ് പ്രയറീസ്”
- Ukrainian: “Прерії техаського Блекленду”
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