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Atlas sheet. 
Park; post village in Bowie County. 
Parker; a north central county, with an area of 888 square 
miles. The population was 25,823; the county seat, 
Weatherford. The mean magnetic declination in 1900 was 
8° 45'. The mean annual rainfall is 38 inches, and the I Weatherf ord. 
mean annual temperature 65°. The county is traversed by(p a i pinto, 
the Texas and Pacific, the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe, 
and the Weatherford, Mineral Wells and Northwestern 
railways. 
Parker; village in Collin County. 
Park Spring's; post village in Wise County. 
Parmer; a county situated in the Panhandle, with an area of 
873 square miles. The population was 34. The mean mag- 
netic declination in 1900 was 11° 30'. The mean annual 
rainfall is 15 inches, and the mean annual temperature 55°. 
The county is traversed by the Pecos and Northern Texas, 
a branch of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway. 
Parsons; village on the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway, 
in Parker County Weatherford. 
Partridge; creek, a right-hand branch of Cowhouse Creek, 
tributary to Little River Hamilton. 
Parvin; post village in Denton County. 
Pasadena; post village in Harris County. 
Paschall; post village in Wise County. 
Pass Cavallo; entrance to Matagorda Bay. 
Patilo; post village in Erath County. 
Pato Gacho; bayou, a right-hand branch of Sabine River, in 
eastern Texas. 
Patrick; post village in McLennan County Waco. 
Patroon; creek, a right-hand branch of Sabine River, in east- 
ern Texas. 
Patroon; post village in Shelby County. 
Patterson; post village in Waller County. 
Patton; post village on the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Rail- 
way, in McLennan County Waco. 
Pattonville ; post village in Lamar County. 
Pauli; post village in Montgomery County. 
Pauls Store; post village in Shelby County. 
Pawpaw; creek, small branch of Red River Dennison. 
Paxton; post village in Shelby County. 
Payne; post village in Mills County. 
Paynes; gap in Mills County Lampasas. 
Paynes; waterhole, in Brewster County Terlingua. 
Paynespring; post village in Henderson County. 
Payton; post village in Blanco County. 
Peacevale; post village in Hutchinson County. 
Peach; creek, a tributary to San Jacinto River. 
Peach; creek, small intermittent branch of Guadalupe River.. Flatonia. 
Peach; post village in Wood County. 
Pearl; post village in Coryell County. 
Pearland; post village in Brazoria County. 
Pearsall; county seat of Frio County; population, 766 (1890). 
Pearson; post village in Montague County, 
