Is Abilene In west Texas?

[muzzlebrake]

West Texas is right here. End of argument!

https://www.google.com/maps/@31.8290023,-97.0868408,12z

[mikemorvan]

This little map here pretty much nails my thoughts on the subject.

This is pretty much what i think.

[mikemorvan]

I always heard Ft. Worth is where the west begins. That must be way off.

Dallas is where the East ends, Ft. Worth IS where "the west" begins. But Cowtown isn't West Texas.

[hardtner]

If you live where I do, anything west of I-35 is West Texas

[MC79]

If it has a lake its not West Texas

[Randy]

I grew up there and only heard it referred to as west Texas.
Hell the West Texas Fair is in Abilene.

Lubbock is the south plains. From about Tulia north is the panhandle. Odessa and on farther west is what I always heard called far west Texas

[8pointer]

West Texas starts at San Angelo IMO.

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[bphillips]

If it has a lake its not West Texas

Well then it start waaaay out west past Pecos

[Brazman]

The Answer

Some of y'all are real wrong. Some are only a lil' wrong. Lotsa y'all're right.


And Shane is dead on.

I've lived in Austin (Central TX, or "The Hill Country"), Lufkin (Deep East TX, or "The Piney Woods"), and Abilene (home of the West Texas Fair and Rodeo, capital of "The Big Country").

I love living in Abilene, because anytime you travel, in any direction, it's prettier than Abilene.

[mattjproc]

I spent the first 20 years of my life in Abilene. I never knew there was a debate about Abilene not being in west Texas until someone here in Austin was arguing with me about it. I consider being in west Texas not just a geographic location but almost a way of living. I've been in Austin for 18 years now and I consider this central Texas, not Abilene. Call the areas what you want but I sure miss west Texas people.

[texaspacker]

I was raised in Skabilene.
If a thunder storm comes in from the west the rain is red!
My parents still live there. When I go to visit my eyes get messed up from all the dust & wind because the wind blows 90 miles a hour 300 days out of year.
Sklabilene is in West Texas some times it isn't. It depends on how hard the wind is blowing that day.
Skabilene is well known as the mesquite tree capital of the universe.
Skabilene is called The Big Country. Yeah big and ugly!
The best thing about Skabilene is. I do not live there!

[TexaRican]

Is Abilene In west Texas?

I always called it Drabilene but I don't think it's as bad as you remember it.

Try living in Lubbock lol.

[bboswell]

I spent the first 20 years of my life in Abilene. I never knew there was a debate about Abilene not being in west Texas until someone here in Austin was arguing with me about it. I consider being in west Texas not just a geographic location but almost a way of living. I've been in Austin for 18 years now and I consider this central Texas, not Abilene. Call the areas what you want but I sure miss west Texas people.

Agreed. My Parents and grandparents are from Sweetwater so I have spent a good bit of my life there and never met anyone there that didn't believe they were in West Texas.

[lmartin5]

Born and raised in Abilene, but moved to San Angelo about 8 months ago.

99% of the folks in Abilene believe they live in West Texas, and I tend to believe that logic. IMO, Abilene is the gateway to West Texas, anything west of 277 is West Texas IMO.


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[jmock87]

To me you draw a line from Del Rio to Abilene. West of that is West Texas. East of that line, between 10 and 20 and till you get to 35, your in central TX. North of 20 is the panhandle or north TX depending on where your at. To me south TX is east of 277, south of 10, till you get to about 37 on the east side, where you go to the gulf coast.

Would say its a fuzzy line though. you can make cases for places like paint rock and coleman being in west TX.