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Atlas sheet. 
Blake; post village in Brown County. 
Blalock; post village in Titus County. 
Blanche; post village in Cottle County. 
Blanco; a central county, with an area of 762 square miles and 
an average altitude of 1 , 250 feet. The population was 4, 703 ; 
the county seat, Johnson City. The mean magnetic declina- 
tion in 1900 was 9°. The mean annual rainfall is 30 inches, 
and the mean annual temperature, 66°. The county has no 
railroads. 
Blanco; creek, a small stream in southern Texas flowing into 
Copano Bay. 
Blanco; river, a left-hand tributary to Nueces River. 
Blanco; town of Blanco County; population, 269 (1890). 
Blanconia; post village in Bee County. 
Bland; post village in Bell County. 
Blanket; creek, a left-hand branch of Pecan Bayou, tributary 
to Clear River Brownwood. 
Blanket; post village in Brown County Brownwood. 
Blanton; post village in Hill County Cleburne. 
Blankinship ; post village in Van Zandt County. 
Bleiblerville ; post village in Austin County. 
Blessing-; post village in Matagorda County. 
Blevins; post village in Falls County. 
Bliss; post village in Grayson County. 
Block; creek, a left-hand branch of Guadalupe River Fredericksburg. 
Blocker; creek, small branch of Clear Fork of Trinity River. . Gainesville. 
Blocker; village in Harrison County. 
Bloomburg-; post village in Cass County. 
Bloomfield; branch, a small right-hand intermittent branch of 
Clear Fork of Brazos River Breckenridge. 
Bloomfield; post village in Cooke County. 
Blooming Grove; post village of Navarro County ; population, 
585. 
Blossom; town of Lamar County; population, 874. 
Blount; mountain in Llano County Llano. 
Blowout; post village in Blanco County. 
Blue; group of hills in Mason County; elevation, 2,217 feet Mason. 
Blue; hollow in Cooke County Gainesville. 
Blue; mound, a hill in Tarrant County Fort Worth. 
Blue; mountain in Jeff Davis County; elevation, 7,330 feet Valentine. 
Blue; mountain in Uvalde County ; elevation, 1,277 feet Uvalde. 
Blue ; mountain range in Brewster County Terlingua. 
Blue; post village in Lee County. 
BluegTOve; post village in Clay County. 
Blueridge; post village in Collin County. 
Blue Spring; village in Parker County Palo Pinto. 
Bluff; creek, a left-hand branch of Elm Creek, tributary to] » i -i 
Colorado River. 1 T> „. 
IBalhnger. 
Bluff; creek, a right-hand branch of Clear Fork of Brazos River. / Anson ' 
(Albany. 
Bluff; creek, a right-hand branch of Colorado River Brady. 
Bluff; creek, a small left-hand branch of West Nueces River. . Nueces. 
