First Rotary Drilling Rig Used in Texas Panhandle
First Rotary Drilling Rig Used in Texas Panhandle is a memorial in Carson, Texas.Places in the Area
Nearby places include Borger.
Borger
Photo: Billy Hathorn, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Borger is a city in the High Plains of the Texas Panhandle. It was a wild oil boom town through the 1920s, 30s, and 40s and is still very much an oil town to this day. Borger is also home to Franks Phillips College.
First Rotary Drilling Rig Used in Texas Panhandle
- Type: Memorial
- Address: Panhandle
- Category: historic site
- Location: Carson, Texas, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
35.60297° or 35° 36′ 11″ northLongitude
-101.406° or 101° 24′ 22″ westInception
1993Operator
Texas Historical CommissionOpen location code
857WJH3V+5HOpenStreetMap ID
node 12402907996OpenStreetMap feature
historic=memorial
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