Oil-rich land is also the backbone of success for the next largest landowner in the state, Texas Pacific Land Corp., which owns more than 870,000 acres, mostly in west Texas, according to its website.

Nearly 1.3 million Texas homes are similarly situated in parts of the state susceptible to dangerous floodwaters, according to a state estimate. A quarter of the state’s land carries some degree of severe flood risk, leaving an estimated 5 million Texans in possible jeopardy.

BLM maps show cabin may be in Okla. — and Texas. By Mike Lee | 06/17/2016 01:05 PM EDT . A surprise visit from Texas game wardens first alerted Glenn Herring that the land he’d bought along ...

Bruce Shackelford, South Texas Heritage Museum curator, talks about a map depicting a bird's eye view of San Antonio as the Witte Museum in collaboration with the Texas General Land Office ...

The vast majority of Texas land — 83 percent — is part of a farm, ranch or forest. ... Click on a county in the map below to see how its open space acreage has changed.

Map shows 82% of Texas land in drought or 'abnormally dry' 2011 was the driest year ever recorded in Texas. The state suffered through an extreme drought that dried up its lakes and creeks.

Map: Texas coast, 3-foot rise in sea levels. Map: ... For the Texas coastline, land sinkage is the main contributor to rising sea levels, NOAA reports. Rather than seeing more water in the ocean, ...

Or, at least that's what can be gathered from an amusing 1933 map of East Texas' oilfields. The map, drawn by E. D. Ray and recently shared by The Texas General Land Office, isn't entirely accurate.