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Beverly; post village in Briscoe County. 
Bexar; a central county, with an area of 1,268 square miles and 
an average altitude of 500 feet. The population is 69,422; 
the county seat, San Antonio. The mean magnetic declina- 
tion in 1900 was 9° 30'. The mean annual rainfall is 30 
inches, and the mean annual temperature 68°. The county 
is rolling, and is traversed by the San Antonio and Gulf, 
the International and Great Northern, Southern Pacific, 
and the San Antonio and Aransas Pass railroads. 
Bexar; post village in Bexar County. 
Beyersville; post village in Williamson County. 
Biardstown; post village in Lamar County. 
Bibb; post village in Comanche County. 
Bidais; creek, a small right-hand branch of Trinity River in east 
Texas. 
Biegel; post village in Fayette County. 
Big-; a canyon in Kinney County Nueces. 
Big-; branch, a left-hand I) ranch of Gonzales Creek, tributary to 
Clear Fork of Brazos River Breckenridge. 
Big; branch, a small right-hand branch of Gonzales Creek, 
tributary to Clear Fork of Brazos River Breckenridge. 
Big; mountain in Uvalde County Uvalde. 
Big; valley on Colorado River, Mills County San Saba. 
Big Aguja; canyon in Jeff Davis County Fort Davis. 
Big Aguja; mountain in Jeff Davis County Fort Davis. 
Big Bear; creek, a right-hand branch of West Fork of Trinity 
River. 
Big Cedar; creek, a right-hand branch of Brazos River Breckenridge. 
Big Cedar; creek, a right-hand branch of Navasota River. 
Big Cow; creek, a small right-hand branch of Sabine River in 
east Texas. 
Big Cypress; creek : a right-hand tributary to Red River in 
northeast Texas. 
Big Fivemile; creek, small intermittent branch of Peach 
Creek Flatonia. 
Bigfoot; post village in Frio County. 
Big Fossil; creek, a left-hand branch of West Fork of Trinity 
River Fort Worth. 
Biggers; post village in Collin County. 
Bighill; post village in Limestone County. 
Big Lucy ; creek, a right-hand branch of Lampasas River, trib- 
utary to Little River Lampasas. 
Big Mountain; creek, aright-hand branch of Southern Leon ( Brown wood. 
Creek, tributary to Little River. I Hamilton. 
Big Pine; creek, a small right-hand branch of Neches River in 
east Texas. 
Big Rocky; creek, small intermittent branch of Lavaca River. Flatonia. 
Big Sandy; creek, a right-hand tributary to Neches River. 
Big Sandy; town in Upshur County; population, 323 (1890). 
Big Spring; county seat of Howard County; population, 1,158 
(1890). 
Big Sunday; creek, a right-hand branch of Palo Pinto Creek, /Stephen ville. 
tributary to Brazos River. iPalo Pinto. 
Big Trestle; draw, a shallow valley in Presidio County Marfa. 
