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Amarillo Information:
Amarillo is in Potter county. Area zipcodes, with demographic data: 79182 79184 79185 79186 79187 79189 79181 79101 79102 79103 79104 79105 79106 79107 79108 79109 79110 79111 79114 79116 79117 79118 79119 79120 79121 79123 79124 79159 79163 79165 79166 79167 79168 79170 79171 79172 79174 79175 79178 79180
Amarillo area code: 806
Amarillo latitude and longitude: 35.2218, 101.8309
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The Republic of Texas achieved its independence from Mexico in 1836,
the same year as the famous siege of the Alamo in which pioneers Jim
Bowie and Davy Crockett were slain. The "Lone Star State" was the 28th
state to join the Union, admitted in 1845. The name Texas is a Spanish
name, which comes from an Indian word meaning "friends" or "allies."
Texas is the second-largest state in the Union in area, after Alaska.
Although it has a wild, frontier history, today Texas is a major
producer of oil and has important centers of industry and finance. A
Texas state historian has said that the state flower, the bluebonnet,
"is to Texas what the shamrock is to Ireland."
Copyright: Library of Congress and CIA Fact Book.
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