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.GEOGRAPHY OF TEXAS TOTAL AREA: 266,807 sq mi (691,030 sq km) LAND AREA: 262,017 sq mi (678,624 sq km) WATER AREA: 4,790 sq mi (12,406 sq km) HIGHEST POINT: Guadalupe Peak, 8,749 feet LOWEST POINT: Gulf of Mexico, sea level AVERAGE ELEVATION: 1,700 feet HIGHEST TEMPERATURE: 120@ Fahrenheit LOWEST TEMPERATURE: -23@ Fahrenheit NATURAL RESOURCES: Petroleum, natural gas, cement FEDERAL LANDS: 1.90% owned by federal government FRESH WATER CONSUMPTION: 8,650 million gallons per day SOIL EROSION: 525.4 million tons per year HAZARDOUS WASTE SITES: 29 sites on national priority list .PEOPLE OF TEXAS POPULATION: 16,991,000 PROJECTED POPULATION YEAR 2000: 20,211,000 POPULATION CHANGE 1980-1988: 18.40% POPULATION DENSITY: 64.3 persons per sq mi PERSONS PER HOUSEHOLD: 2.7 METROPOLITAN AREA POPULATION: 81.3% MARRIAGE RATE: 10.4 marriages per 1,000 population DIVORCE RATE: 5.6 divorces per 1,000 population BIRTH RATE: 18 births per 1,000 population BIRTHS TO TEENAGE MOTHERS: 15.2% of total BIRTHS TO UNMARRIED WOMEN: 19% of total POPULATION UNDER 18 YEARS: 29.6% POPULATION 65 YEARS OLD AND OVER: 9.9% LIFE EXPECTANCY, BOTH SEXES: 73.6 years LIFE EXPECTANCY, MALE: 69.7 years LIFE EXPECTANCY, FEMALE: 77.7 years DEATH RATE: 7.1 deaths per 1,000 population BLACK POPULATION: 11.9% JEWISH POPULATION: 0.6% PERSONS BELOW POVERTY LEVEL: 14.7% FAMILIES BELOW POVERTY LEVEL: 11.1% CHILDREN BELOW POVERTY LEVEL: 18.7% VIETNAM VETERANS: 641,000 .EDUCATION IN TEXAS EXPENDITURES FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $806 per resident PUBLIC SCHOOL EXPENDITURES PER PUPIL: $3,842 per pupil PUPIL/TEACHER RATIO: 17.7 pupils per teacher ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TEACHERS SALARIES: $26,000 average SECONDARY SCHOOL TEACHERS SALARIES: $27,100 average COLLEGE ENROLLMENT: 802,000 total COLLEGE ENROLLMENT, FRESHMEN: 135,000 COLLEGE ENROLLMENT, FEMALE: 416,000 COLLEGE ENROLLMENT, PART-TIME: 362,000 SPENDING FOR PUBLIC HIGHER EDUCATION: $3,076 per student TUITION REVENUES FOR HIGHER EDUCATION: $919 per student .HEALTH IN TEXAS HOSPITAL DAILY ROOM CHARGE: $212 average PHYSICIANS: 169 physicians per 100,000 population DENTISTS: 44 dentists per 100,000 population LOW BIRTH WEIGHT BABIES, ALL RACES: 6.9 per 100 live births LOW BIRTH WEIGHT BABIES, BLACK: 12.3 per 100 live births LOW BIRTH WEIGHT BABIES, WHITE: 6 per 100 live births INFANT MORTALITY RATE, ALL RACES: 9.5 deaths per 1,000 live births INFANT MORTALITY RATE, BLACK: 15.5 deaths per 1,000 live births INFANT MORTALITY RATE, WHITE: 8.6 deaths per 1,000 live births LEGAL ABORTION RATE: 320 per 1,000 live births AIDS CASES REPORTED, 1983-1989: 7,295 total AIDS CASES REPORTED, 1989: 1,604 total AIDS CASES REPORTED (RATE) 1989: 12.5 per 100,000 population DEATHS AMONG AIDS CASES, 1983-1989: 4,501 DEATHS FROM ACCIDENTS: 42.1 per 100,000 resident population DEATHS FROM CANCER: 147.5 per 100,000 resident population DEATHS FROM HEART DISEASE: 239.8 per 100,000 resident population DEATHS FROM HOMICIDE: 14.1 per 100,000 resident population DEATHS FROM LIVER DISEASE AND CIRRHOSIS: 8.2 per 100,000 resident population DEATHS FROM PNEUMONIA AND FLU: 21 per 100,000 resident population DEATHS FROM SUICIDE: 13.6 per 100,000 resident population .GOVERNMENT OF TEXAS OFFICIAL NAME: State of Texas ADMITTED TO UNION: Dec. 29, 1845 ORDER OF STATEHOOD: 28th CAPITAL: Austin MOTTO: Friendship SONG: Texas, Our Texas SYMBOLS: Bird--Mockingbird; Flower--Bluebonnet; Tree--Pecan FLAG: A vertical bar of blue at the hoist with a white star. Two horizontal stripes of white and red make up the rest of the flag. GOVERNOR: William P. Clements (R) 1990 EXECUTIVE TERM: 4 years VOTERS IN 1988 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION:: 44.2% casting votes ELECTORAL VOTES: 29 SENATORS: Lloyd Bentsen (D) 1994, Phil Gramm (R) 1990 NUMBER OF U.S. REPRESENTATIVES: 27 AGE OF MAJORITY (FULL CIVIL RIGHTS): 18 AGE OF MARRIAGE W/CONSENT: 14 with judicial consent AGE OF MARRIAGE W/O CONSENT: 18 AGE OF BUYING ALCOHOL: 21 AGE OF LEAVING SCHOOL: 17 STATE FUNDING FOR ART: $0.2 per capita STATE GOVERNMENT EXPENDITURES: $1,148 per capita FEDERAL INCOME TAXES PAID: $1,426 per capita DISTRIBUTION OF FEDERAL FUNDS: $2,949 per capita FEDERAL SPENDING, DEFENSE PROGRAMS: $15,712 (millions) FEDERAL EMPLOYEES, CIVILIAN: 172,000 SOCIAL SECURITY RECIPIENTS: 12.5% of population PUBLIC AID RECIPIENTS: 4.7% of population FOOD STAMP RECIPIENTS: 9% of population .CRIME IN TEXAS CRIME RATE, TOTAL: 8,018 offenses per 100,000 population VIOLENT CRIME RATE: 653 offenses per 100,000 population MURDERS: 12.1 per 100,000 population FORCIBLE RAPE: 48 per 100,000 population ROBBERY: 234 per 100,000 population AGGRAVATED ASSAULT: 358 per 100,000 population PROPERTY CRIME RATE: 7,365 offenses per 100,000 population BURGLARY: 2,157 per 100,000 population LARCENY-THEFT: 4,408 per 100,000 population MOTOR VEHICLE THEFT: 800 per 100,000 population PRISON INMATES: 40,437 total PRISON INMATE RATE: 240 per 100,000 population PRISONERS EXECUTED, 1980-1988: 29 executed POLICE PROTECTION: 24.4 police per 10,000 population LAWYERS: 410 population per lawyer .ECONOMY OF TEXAS INCOME PER CAPITA: $14,586 DISPOSABLE PERSONAL INCOME: $12,777 GROSS STATE PRODUCT: $303,510 (millions) GROSS STATE PRODUCT, AGRICULTURE: $5,865 (millions) GROSS STATE PRODUCT, MINING: $31,115 (millions) GROSS STATE PRODUCT, CONSTRUCTION: $16,226 (millions) GROSS STATE PRODUCT, MANUFACTURING: $48,708 (millions) GROSS STATE PRODUCT, TRANSPORTATION: $33,273 (millions) GROSS STATE PRODUCT, WHOLESALE TRADE: $23,184 (millions) GROSS STATE PRODUCT, RETAIL TRADE: $28,257 (millions) GROSS STATE PRODUCT, FINANCE: $41,403 (millions) GROSS STATE PRODUCT, SERVICES: $43,190 (millions) GROSS STATE PRODUCT, GOVERNMENT: $32,289 (millions) U.S. EXPORTS: $26,384 (millions) DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE CONTRACTS: $9,001 (millions) PATENTS GRANTED: 2,540 (1988) NEW BUSINESS FAILURES: 188 failures per 10,000 concerns BLACK-OWNED FIRMS: 29,927 total EMPLOYED/POPULATION RATIO: 64.1% employed of total population FEMALE LABOR FORCE: 59.1% of labor force UNEMPLOYMENT RATE: 7.3% unemployed UNION MEMBERSHIP IN MANUFACTURING: 15.1% unionized NEW HOUSING STARTS: 41,000 units NONRESIDENTIAL CONSTRUCTION: $1,683 (millions) MORTGAGE LOANS FORECLOSED: 11.6% VALUE ADDED BY MANUFACTURE: $63,921 (millions) MANUFACTURING WORKERS, CHANGE 1982-1987: -15.7% EXPORT RELATED FACTORY EMPLOYMENT: 13.5% of total employment RETAIL SALES PER HOUSEHOLD: $18,184 CHANGE IN RETAIL SALES PER HOUSEHOLD 1982-86: 18.8% MINERALS PRODUCED (NON-FUELS): $1,431 (millions) MINERAL FUELS PRODUCED: $23,087 (millions) CRUDE PETROLEUM PRODUCTION: 761 million barrels NATURAL GAS PRODUCTION: 6,061 billion cubic feet marketed NET ELECTRICAL ENERGY GENERATION: 221.2 billion kWh ELECTRICAL ENERGY INSTALLED CAPACITY: 62.9 million kW NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS: 1 .AGRICULTURE OF TEXAS PRINCIPAL FARM COMMODITIES: Cattle, cotton, dairy products, greenhouse (73% of total) PRINCIPAL CROPS: Cotton lint, hay, corn, sorghum LAND IN FARMS: 132,000,000 acres CROPLAND HARVESTED: 16,644,000 acres harvested NUMBER OF FARMS: 186,000 SIZE OF FARMS: 710 acres per farm CHANGE IN FARMLAND, 1982-87: -0.6% VALUE OF FARM LAND AND BUILDINGS: $443 per acre NET FARM INCOME: $3,671 (millions) NET FARM INCOME/DEBT RATIO: 33.1% BARLEY PRODUCTION: 480 bushels (thousands) BARLEY YIELD: 32 bushels per acre CORN PRODUCTION: 148,400 bushels (thousands) CORN YIELD: 106 bushels per acre COTTON PRODUCTION: 3,028 bales (thousands) COTTON YIELD: 385 pounds per acre HAY PRODUCTION: 9,582 tons (thousands) HAY YIELD: 2.45 tons per acre OATS PRODUCTION: 6,600 bushels (thousands) OATS YIELD: 33 bushels per acre POTATO PRODUCTION: 3,408 CWT (thousands) POTATO YIELD: 209 CWT per acre RICE PRODUCTION: 19,266 CWT (thousands) SOYBEAN PRODUCTION: 12,450 bushels (thousands) SOYBEAN YIELD: 30 bushels per acre SUGARBEET PRODUCTION: 743 tons (thousands) SUGARCANE PRODUCTION: 928 tons TOBACCO PRODUCTION: 0 pounds (thousands) TOBACCO YIELD: 0 pounds per acre WHEAT PRODUCTION: 60,000 bushels (thousands) WHEAT YIELD: 20 bushels per acre BROILERS PRODUCED: 266.3 millions TURKEYS RAISED: NA CATTLE AND CALVES: 13,400 on farms (1,000 head) HOGS AND PIGS: 500 on farms (1,000 head) SHEEP AND LAMBS: 2,090 on farms (1,000 head) MILK COWS: 349 on farms (1,000 head) .COMMUNICATIONS IN TEXAS INTERSTATE HIGHWAYS: 3,208 miles; 5,162 kilometers MOTOR VEHICLE TRAVEL: 515 thousands of miles traveled per road mile LICENSED DRIVERS: 722.9 per 1,000 population MOTOR VEHICLE ACCIDENT DEATHS: 19.8 deaths per 100,000 population REGISTERED AUTOMOBILES: 495 per 1,000 population REGISTERED MOTORCYCLES: 13 per 1,000 population DRIVERS EXCEEDING 55 MPH SPEED LIMIT: 55.8% COMMERCIAL AM RADIO STATIONS: 299 COMMERCIAL FM RADIO STATIONS: 250 EDUCATIONAL FM RADIO STATIONS: 45 COMMERCIAL TELEVISION STATIONS: 70 EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION STATIONS: 9 DAILY NEWSPAPERS: 106 DAILY NEWSPAPER CIRCULATION: 0.21 papers per capita .TRAVEL IN TEXAS STATE BOARD OF TOURISM: Texas State Board of Tourism, Box 12008, Capitol Station, Austin, 78711, (512) 462-9191 TOURIST ATTRACTIONS: Austin--State Capitol, Lyndon B. Johnson Library, L.B. Johnson National Historic Park (Johnson City); Dallas--Historical Plaza, Dallas Zoo, Fair Park museums, aquarium, and Hall of State, Wax Museum of the Southwest, Cotton Bowl, West End Historical District; Fort Worth--Kimball Art Museum, Amon Carter Museum, Botanical garden, zoo, Six Flags Over Texas amusement park; Houston--Hermann Park area theater, natural science and art museums, planetarium and zoo; Museum of Fine Arts, Port area, Sam Houston Park, San Jacinto Battleground State Park, Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, Astrodome, Astroworld amusement park; Guadelupe Mountains National Park; Lake Texoma; Midland--Petroleum Museum; San Antonio--Alamo, Spanish Governor's palace, Missions, Paseo del Rio (river walk), La Villita (reconstruction of Spanish area of city), Hemisfair Plaza, Sea World of Texas; Bandera (Cowboy Capital of the World); Corpus Christi, Galveston, Padre Island National Seashore (beaches); San Jacinto Battleground State Park; Palo Duro Canyon; Big Bend National Park (canyons, mountains, desert plant and animal life near Rio Grande). DOMESTIC TRAVEL SPENDING: $15,720 (millions) LAND IN NATIONAL PARKS: 1,098,700 acres LAND IN STATE PARKS: 225,000 acres VISITORS TO STATE PARKS: 20,960,000 annually 
