Terlingua
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Location in Texas
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| State : | United States | ||
| State : | Texas | ||
| County : | Brewster County | ||
| Coordinates : | 29 ° 19 ′ N , 103 ° 37 ′ W | ||
| Time zone : | Central ( UTC − 6 / −5 ) | ||
| Residents : | 58 (as of 2010) | ||
| Population density : | 2 inhabitants per km 2 | ||
| Area : | 28.5 km 2 (approx. 11 mi 2 ) of which 28.5 km 2 (approx. 11 mi 2 ) are land |
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| Height : | 881 m | ||
| FIPS : | 48-72248 | ||
| GNIS ID : | 1379150 | ||
Terlingua is a place in Brewster County in the US state of Texas .
geography
Terlingua is located in west-west Texas, near the Rio Grande between Lajitas (30 km) and Study Butt (22 km). The place is 883 meters above sea level. The climate is dry, with 264 mm of precipitation per year, and hot with an average annual temperature of 22.1 degrees Celsius.
history
Terlingua is the name of three different places in the southwestern part of Brewster County. The original place was a Mexican settlement and was about 5 kilometers above the confluence of the Terlingua Creek in the Rio Grande.
When mercury was found in the vicinity of the place in the mid-1880s , the Marfa and Mariposa mining company founded the mine workers' place "Terlingua Abaja". By 1900 there were four mining companies in the Terlingua area that were mining mercury. In 1902, about 300 workers lived in the mining district of Terlingua, most of them of Mexican origin. By 1905 the number rose to around 1000. In 1910, the Marfa and Mariposa Mining Company ceased production, and the place was relocated about sixteen kilometers east of the Chisos Mining Company camp. The post office, founded in 1899, moved to the new Terlingua as well as the school founded in 1907, where the children were taught in tents. Not until 1930 did the mining company erect a permanent school building. Mercury production increased significantly during the First World War . In 1922 Terlingua supplied 40% of the mercury mined in the United States. In the course of the Great Depression , mercury production fell sharply and fell continuously in the 1930s, so that the Chisos Mining Company went bankrupt in 1942. Until the end of the Second World War , a successor society kept the mercury mining going on a makeshift basis, but with the dwindling jobs the miners left the place and Terlingua became a ghost town .
From the mid-1960s, the ghost town of Terlingua was discovered by tourism. With campaigns like the annual “Chili Cook-Off”, tourists were attracted to the place, which in 1967 was awarded the honorary title “Chili Capitol of the World” by the Chili Appreciation Society. The population of Terlingua in 1994 was 25 people who ran thirteen shops, by 2000 the population increased to 267 and the number of shops to 44. By 2010 the population decreased to 58.
The German rock band Mono Inc. recorded their album of the same name in Terlingua in autumn 2014 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Climatic data for Terlingua
- ^ Ragsdale, Kenneth B .: Quicksilver: Terlingua and the Chisos Mining Company . College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1976, pp. 14-17
- ^ Ragsdale, Kenneth B: Terlingua, Tx . In: Handbook of Texas Online, published by the Texas State Historical Association, accessed December 7, 2014.
- ↑ 2010 Demographic Profile Data
- ↑ metalmessage.de: Texan day and night visions. April 24, 2015, accessed June 3, 2015.
literature
- Ragsdale, Kenneth B .: Quicksilver: Terlingua and the Chisos Mining Company . College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1976
- Harman, Sami C .: Terlingua: Quicksilver to Chili . In: Texas Historian. Volume XLIV, No. 5, May 1984, pp. 1-3