Where does it begin...? (Houston, Dallas: home, neighborhood, pine)

[High_Plains_Retired]

Originally Posted by TexasReb

Backtracking a bit, the topic of this one is akin to one we did last year. That is, "Where Does East Texas Start?"

Great topic for a thread but as I read through the replies, an old Texas standard reply comes to mind when one attempts to answer a question for which the answer is vague or not known. That reply is, "Now don't start me lyin'."

[Cathy4017]

Originally Posted by JamesAbilene

This state is confusing. West Texas State University is farther north than University of North Texas. East Texas State in Commerce (now Texas A&M Commerce) is also farther north than UNT. Southwest Texas State University is actually more central Texas than Southwest Texas (Is that why they changed the name to Texas State University and dropped the Southwest.)

No, directions on the map have nothing to do with where you are in Texas. Where you are is a personal and cultural feeling. I know that in Abilene I am in West Texas. On TV we are considered North Texas for weather predictions. Yet, we are awfully close to to Brownwood which calls itself Central Texas. Personally, I believe everything west of Highway 81 is west Texas. Ft. Worth is west. Dallas is East. They are both North.

Oh, I am confusing myself.

LOL!! Uh huh......

IMHO, Abilene is the far eastern edge of what I consider to be West Texas.

[case44]

Originally Posted by High_Plains_Retired

Great topic for a thread but as I read through the replies, an old Texas standard reply comes to mind when one attempts to answer a question for which the answer is vague or not known. That reply is, "Now don't start me lyin'."

Well, HPR, at least we can have a good laugh now and then. It's a wonder that our founding fathers should have used paint to draw lines and divide the state into regions. That would have been a hoot.

[case44]

Originally Posted by Cathy4017

LOL!! Uh huh......

IMHO, Abilene is the far eastern edge of what I consider to be West Texas.

You are just about right, Cathy. That's exactly where it is.

[Cathy4017]

Originally Posted by case44

You are just about right, Cathy. That's exactly where it is.

One big area for sure, LOL!!

I haven't quite decided where east Texas starts, though.....maybe around Paris??

[NOTAM]

agreed! and hey stan in goldwaithe...great town. if it werent so far from my job i would live there. gonna buy in gatesville........next best thing!

Originally Posted by case44

Belle, you have to go east of I-45 to really be in East Texas. East of Corsicana, Fairfield, and Huntsville, basically. And also about 40 miles east of Dallas. That's all it takes, hon. That would be well east of I-35.

[High_Plains_Retired]

Originally Posted by case44

Well, HPR, at least we can have a good laugh now and then. It's a wonder that our founding fathers should have used paint to draw lines and divide the state into regions. That would have been a hoot.

The location of Texas regional boundaries is definately a fun topic. It's sort of like asking whether or not one believes in exterrestrials or ghosts. Although I now allow the locals of a town to tell me whether they are in east or west Texas, as I recall, the last time I actually posed a question to a resident in a small Texas town I was driving through was how to pronounce Mexia.

[BobTex]

Originally Posted by High_Plains_Retired

as I recall, the last time I actually posed a question to a resident in a small Texas town I was driving through was how to pronounce Mexia.

As my good friend and hero, Skipper Bishop, from Mexia corrected me the correct pronouciation sounds like ... ma-hare' .


I consider anything east of I-45 and north of US 90 up to about Huntsville and then head toward Palestine. Got to stop maybe 60-100 miles north of I-20 and go to the border. If pine trees, trailerhouses, rednecks(like me) and boats at every other house are common then you might not be in East Texas. (I thought about adding meth labs to my list but decided against it).

Get you a Parks and Wildlife handout booklet at the Wallyworld sporting goods counter and look how they divided the state into 8 regions. Me being the redneck outdoorsman I am I kinda look at that as my guideline. If you're in the "Pineywoods Region" then you're in E. TX..

I've been to Mexia (My Hair) amd it damg sure ain't east Tx. I did see a bunch of trailer houses though.


BTW, its off topic, but if any of you are interested my buddy Skip has a website that his son set up for him. See what kinda man Texas makes!

Here it is: Skipper Bishop

[High_Plains_Retired]

Originally Posted by BobTex

Get you a Parks and Wildlife handout booklet at the Wallyworld sporting goods counter and look how they divided the state into 8 regions. Me being the redneck outdoorsman I am I kinda look at that as my guideline. If you're in the "Pineywoods Region" then you're in E. TX..

I guess all I can say for sure is that forty years ago I left Lufkin, Texas and ended up in Bovina, Texas. I'm pretty sure I crossed that mysterious east Texas / west Texas border somewhere.

[WestTx]

The East Texas boundary is easy. Anything east of I-45 is East Texas. One of these days, someone will come up with a map that better describes the destinct regions of Texas.