A report on High Plains (United States) and Llano Estacado

The High Plains ecology region is designated by 25 on this map.

High Plains in Oklahoma west of Guymon (2009)

The northern edge of the Llano Estacado in New Mexico

Caprock Escarpment south of Ralls, Texas

Grain silos, a common sight on the High Plains. (2009)

Agricultural land and canyons on the eastern side of the Llano Estacado

High Plains in Southeastern Colorado (2009)

The High Plains are broken in places by canyons, such as this one in Sabinoso Wilderness in New Mexico.

Map of Texas counties with population density

Lubbock, Texas, the largest city on the Llano

The southern region of the Western High Plains ecology region contains the geological formation known as Llano Estacado which can be seen from a short distance or on satellite maps.

- High Plains (United States)

The Llano Estacado lies at the southern end of the Western High Plains ecoregion of the Great Plains of North America; it is part of what was once called the Great American Desert.

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Lubbock, Texas

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Lubbock

Lubbock has a large number of churches, including the downtown First Baptist congregation.

The Wells Fargo Building is the second-tallest building in Lubbock.

Cone grain elevator, north side of Lubbock

Lubbock's Silent Wings Museum at the former South Plains Army Airfield

Lubbock Post Office and Federal Building, constructed in 1932.

Lubbock Preston Smith International Airport

The city is in the northwestern part of the state, a region known historically and geographically as the Llano Estacado, and ecologically is part of the southern end of the High Plains, lying at the economic center of the Lubbock metropolitan area, which has an estimated population of 327,424 in 2020.

Amarillo, Texas

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City in the U.S. state of Texas and the seat of Potter County.

Amarillo in 1889, three weeks after incorporation

An aerial view of the Amarillo business district in 1912.

Grand Opera House, Amarillo, Texas (postcard, circa 1909–1924)

Lighthouse pinnacle in Palo Duro Canyon: The canyon system is located south of the city.

FirstBank Southwest Tower, the tallest building in the city, dominates the skyline of downtown Amarillo.

This map shows the city's average number of inhabitants per square mile of land in 2000.

Entrance to Texas Panhandle War Memorial in Amarillo

Listing of Amarillo-area personnel killed in the Vietnam War

The Globe-News Center for the Performing Arts building is located near the Amarillo Civic Center.

A coyote sleeps in the afternoon heat in the Amarillo Zoo.

Medical Center Park adjacent to Amarillo Botanical Gardens

The clock tower at the Amarillo College's Washington Street Campus.

Amarillo National Bank Plaza One building in downtown Amarillo

The American Quarter Horse Association and Center City of Amarillo sponsors an ongoing public art project that consist of decorated horse statues located in front of several Amarillo businesses.

Several streets around Amarillo's downtown area are still paved with bricks.

The Harrington Regional Medical Center has two of the city's major hospitals.

Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center

The city of Amarillo, originally named Oneida, is situated in the Llano Estacado region.

About 20 mi northeast of Amarillo is the Canadian River, which divides the Western High Plains ecological region.

Eastern New Mexico

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Physiographic subregion within the U.S. state of New Mexico.

Gate leading to fenced pastureland in the wide open spaces south of Kenna, Roosevelt County, New Mexico.

Abandoned post office in Bellview, Curry County, New Mexico.

The region is sometimes called the "High Plains," or "Eastern Plains (of New Mexico)," and was historically referred to as part of the "Great American Desert".

The region is largely coterminous with the portion of the Llano Estacado in New Mexico.

Great Plains

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Broad expanse of flatland in North America.

Farmland in Sioux and Lyon Counties, Iowa (2013)

Dust cloud moving across the Llano Estacado near Ransom Canyon, Texas

Herd of Plains Bison of various ages resting in Elk Island Park, Alberta

The Great Plains as seen in Minnesota's upland prairie at Glacial Lakes State Park

The High Plains of Kansas, in the Smoky Hills near Nicodemus

Short-grass prairie near the front range of the Rockies in Colorado

View of Lake Lawtonka and wind turbines from Mount Scott, Oklahoma

A tornado touching down in Park County, Colorado, July 23, 2018

American bison (Bison bison), Wichita Mountain Wildlife Refuge, Oklahoma

Excavation of a fossil Daemonelix burrow at Agate Fossil Beds National Monument.

Scotts Bluff National Monument, Nebraska

Buffalo hunt under the wolf-skin mask, George Catlin, 1832–33.

This painting by Alfred Jacob Miller is a portrayal of Plains Indians chasing buffalo over a small cliff. The Walters Art Museum.

Great Plains in North Dakota c. undefined 2007, where communities began settling in the 1870s.

Fort William, the first Fort Laramie, as it looked prior to 1840. Painting from memory by Alfred Jacob Miller

Withdrawal rates from the Ogallala Aquifer

Black-footed ferret (Mustela nigripes) National Black-footed Ferret Conservation Center, Colorado

Lesser prairie-chicken (Tympanuchus pallidicinctus) on a lek in the Red Hills of Kansas

Great Plains ratsnake (Pantherophis emoryi), Missouri

Homesteaders in central Nebraska in 1886

The Great Plains before the native grasses were plowed under, Haskell County, Kansas, 1897, showing a man near a buffalo wallow

Wheat field on Dutch flats near Mitchell, Nebraska, 1910

Today the term "High Plains" is used for a subregion of the Great Plains.

High Plains – southeastern Wyoming, southwestern South Dakota, western Nebraska (including the Sand Hills), eastern Colorado, western Kansas, western Oklahoma, eastern New Mexico, and northwestern Texas (including the Llano Estacado and Texas Panhandle);