Where does it begin...?

[TexasReb]

Originally Posted by solytaire

Yeah Cathy, thats a very rational explanation actually...I too would surmise that "Deep" means "deep into..."subsequently Deep East Texas = Deep in the woods maybe?

Its just that if Texas was settled from east to west, one would think that the further west you travel into Texas, the deeper into Texas you might be: Hence a "Deep West Texas"?...lol I'm just being facetious now but was just something to mull over..

LOL Actually, Solytaire, whether intended or not, I think your "deep in the woods" has a LOT of empirical merit to it!

I am not nearly so familiar with SE Texas as I am the NE part of what is generally, commonly, and collectively considered East Texas, but it DOES seem that the pines get taller, thicker, and more varying in variety than in the latter. This (limited, I admit) personal experience is backed up by some of those agricultural department U.S. maps which show the natural ranges of certain trees and such. For instance, as opposed to loblolly and "shortleaf"..."long-leaf" pine is only widely native to the "piney woods" regions of southern parts of East Texas.

Here is a link to a Wikipedia article on East Texas which has a sub-article on Deep East Texas: East Texas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Just as an aside note, I always thought of "deep" East Texas being the part of the state located along and generally east of that "extension" which protrudes a bit east, if one follows the north/south axis from Texarkana to the Gulf, toward Louisiana. The Toledo Bend area typlifies it!

[UNT_Eagle]

I would put Longview/Marshall in the East Texas category, just not the "Deep" category..

[NOTAM]

exactly.

Originally Posted by TexasReb

I definitely do, Miss Belle. I agree with what has been said by many of us about a Vernon to Seymour to Abilene line being the eastern most extension of TRUE West Texas.

[kateekw]

Originally Posted by Stan41

East Texas starts 1 mile east of Goldthwaite on top of the ridge of mountains above the town. All the water that falls east of this ridge eventually flows to the Brazos river and all that falls west of this ridge finally gets into the Colorado.
Kind of a "Continental Divide"
Stan

I grew up in Killeen and I always thought Goldthwaite & Brownwood were West Texas and when you got to Rosebud you were in East Texas. Hillsboro was North Texas and Austin was South Texas. All in the perspective!

[case44]

Originally Posted by kateekw

I grew up in Killeen and I always thought Goldthwaite & Brownwood were West Texas and when you got to Rosebud you were in East Texas. Hillsboro was North Texas and Austin was South Texas. All in the perspective!

Never mind that. He didn't know what he was talking about, but you and I know where Brownwood and Goldthwaite are. There's this thing called Central Texas, and there is much tradition. You can talk to locals in different parts of our state and they'll you things that might blow us away. Texas is just "multi-regioned", and that's what happens when you have a state the size of ours.

[case44]

Originally Posted by UNT_Eagle

I would put Longview/Marshall in the East Texas category, just not the "Deep" category..

Agreed. Deep East Texas is near the Lufkin area.

[TexasReb]

Originally Posted by case44

Agreed. Deep East Texas is near the Lufkin area.

I concur. I always understood that DEEP East Texas was generally that part of the state which extended eastward toward the Sabine River. That is, start at Texarkana and follow south that straight line of the Texas/Louisiana border. THEN, at a certain point, the "survey line" becomes the natural Sabine River boundary which protrudes eastward.

That region 'twist what would have, on the west, been bordered by the "straight line" had it kept going, and on the east by the Sabine River, is Deep East Texas.

Oh lord...

[Texsez]

Mineola is known as the "Gateway to the Pines". If u notice down 69 and 80...u start hitn the pines there.