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Unincorporated community | |
Location within Texas | |
| Coordinates: 29°15′42″N103°46′36″W / 29.26167°N 103.77667°WCoordinates: 29°15′42″N103°46′36″W / 29.26167°N 103.77667°W | |
| Country | United States |
|---|---|
| State | Texas |
| County | Brewster |
| Elevation | 2,342 ft (714 m) |
| Time zone | UTC-6 (Central (CST)) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-5 (CDT) |
| ZIP codes | 79852 |
| Area code | 432 |
| GNIS feature ID | 1339481 |
Lajitas is an unincorporated community in Brewster County, Texas, United States, near the Big Bend National Park.
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History[edit]
The settlement is named for the Boquillas flagstone found in the area. 'Lajitas' translates to 'little flat rocks' in Spanish.[1]
Geography[edit]
Climate[edit]
Lajitas has a hot semiarid climate with very hot summers and mild winters.
| Climate data for Lajitas, Texas (Mar 1, 1978–Mar 31, 2013) | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °F (°C) | 89 (32) | 98 (37) | 102 (39) | 109 (43) | 113 (45) | 115 (46) | 113 (45) | 112 (44) | 110 (43) | 104 (40) | 97 (36) | 90 (32) | 115 (46) |
| Average high °F (°C) | 68.8 (20.4) | 75.0 (23.9) | 83.1 (28.4) | 91.2 (32.9) | 97.8 (36.6) | 102.2 (39.0) | 100.5 (38.1) | 99.1 (37.3) | 95.1 (35.1) | 87.8 (31.0) | 77.4 (25.2) | 69.2 (20.7) | 87.3 (30.7) |
| Daily mean °F (°C) | 51.7 (10.9) | 57.1 (13.9) | 64.5 (18.1) | 72.7 (22.6) | 80.8 (27.1) | 87.6 (30.9) | 87.3 (30.7) | 86.0 (30.0) | 81.5 (27.5) | 72.0 (22.2) | 60.5 (15.8) | 52.2 (11.2) | 71.2 (21.8) |
| Average low °F (°C) | 34.6 (1.4) | 39.1 (3.9) | 45.8 (7.7) | 54.3 (12.4) | 63.8 (17.7) | 73.0 (22.8) | 74.1 (23.4) | 72.9 (22.7) | 67.6 (19.8) | 56.3 (13.5) | 43.6 (6.4) | 35.2 (1.8) | 55.0 (12.8) |
| Record low °F (°C) | 14 (−10) | 5 (−15) | 19 (−7) | 28 (−2) | 42 (6) | 59 (15) | 54 (12) | 61 (16) | 47 (8) | 27 (−3) | 23 (−5) | 10 (−12) | 5 (−15) |
| Average precipitation inches (mm) | 0.33 (8.4) | 0.27 (6.9) | 0.23 (5.8) | 0.34 (8.6) | 0.95 (24) | 1.47 (37) | 2.16 (55) | 1.32 (34) | 1.57 (40) | 1.29 (33) | 0.30 (7.6) | 0.24 (6.1) | 10.47 (266) |
| Average snowfall inches (cm) | 0.0 (0.0) | 0.0 (0.0) | 0.0 (0.0) | 0.0 (0.0) | 0.0 (0.0) | 0.0 (0.0) | 0.0 (0.0) | 0.0 (0.0) | 0.0 (0.0) | 0.0 (0.0) | 0.0 (0.0) | 0.0 (0.0) | 0.1 (0.25) |
| Average precipitation days (≥ 0.001 in) | 2.17 | 1.43 | 1.14 | 1.51 | 3.22 | 4.17 | 5.78 | 4.47 | 4.35 | 3.56 | 1.85 | 1.50 | 33.79 |
| Source: Western Regional Climate Center, Desert Research Institute[2] | |||||||||||||
Economy[edit]
The Lajitas Golf Resort and Spa is a 20,000-acre golf resort business in Lajitas owned by Texas businessman Kelcy Warren, who bought the resort from previous owner Steve Smith while the business was going through financial distress.[3] It is located on the Rio Grande, bordering Mexico,[4] between Big Bend National Park and Big Bend Ranch State Park.[5]
History[edit]
Starting in the 1980s as a joke, for many years the purported mayor of Lajitas was Clay Henry III, a 'beer-drinking' goat.[6] After two replacements of the original Clay Henry, the trading post and stable where the actual mayor lived is now closed and the goat no longer resides there.[7][8]
Education[edit]
Lajitas is zoned to schools in the Terlingua Common School District.
Infrastructure[edit]
Airport[edit]
Due to the remoteness of the resort, Lajitas is served by the Lajitas International Airport, a private airport with a 5,000 ft (1,500 m) asphalt runway.[4]
In popular culture[edit]
Lajitas is mentioned extensively in Red Dirt/Texas Country artist Wade Bowen's song 'Day of the Dead' recorded in October 2017.
References[edit]
- ^'Old Cemetery In Lajitas, Texas, A Tiny Town That Abuts Big Bend National Park In Southwestern Brewster County, On A Bluff Overlooking The Rio Grande River In The Northern Part Of The Chihuahuan Desert'. Library of Congress. Retrieved August 22, 2018.
- ^'LAJITAS, TEXAS (414950), Period of Record Monthly Climate Summary'. Western Regional Climate Center, Desert Research Institute. Retrieved May 6, 2015.
- ^Fenton, Tom (2015-09-14). 'Lajitas Resort: Why you better go now - El Paso Inc.: Publishers Column'. El Paso Inc. Retrieved 2017-04-04.
- ^ abBlack Jack's Crossing Golf Club, Bradley S. Klein, Business Jet Traveler, August 2012.
- ^Texas: Bordering on the bizarre, by Russell Baillie, New Zealand Herald, 5:00 PM Thursday Mar 16, 2017.
- ^Cannon, B. (2004). Texas: Land of Legend and Lore. Wordware Publishing, Incorporated. p. 204. ISBN978-1-55622-949-7.
- ^'Mayor Clay Henry III: A Word About the Mayor'. Lajitas Resort & Spa. Archived from the original on 7 May 2009. Retrieved 12 June 2012.
- ^RoadsideAmerica.com staff (May 2011). 'Clay Henry - Famous Beer-Drinking Dead Goat'. RoadsideAmerica.com. Retrieved 12 June 2012.
Further reading[edit]
- Hilton, Evelyn. 'Lajitas, TX'. TSHA Handbook of Texas Online. Texas State Historical Association.