High Plains (united States)

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This article is about a geographic region in the United States. For the High Plains of Victoria and New South Wales, Australia, see High Plains (Australia).

The High Plains are a subregion of the Great Plains in the central United States, located in eastern Colorado, western Kansas, western Nebraska, central and eastern Montana, eastern New Mexico, western Oklahoma, northwestern Texas, and southeastern Wyoming. In some definitions of the subregion, parts of western South Dakota and North Dakota are included. From east to west, the High Plains rise in elevation from around 750 m (2500 ft) to over 1800 m (6000 ft).

The High Plains are semiarid, receiving between 250-500 mm (10-20 in.) of precipitation annually. Shortgrass prairie and scrub vegetation cover the region, with occasional buttes or other rocky outcrops scattered throughout the region. Agriculture (in the forms of cattle ranching and the growing of wheat, cotton and sunflowers) is the primary economic activity in the region; some areas have significant petroleum and natural gas deposits.

The High Plains has one of the lowest population densities of any region in the continental United States.

External links

High Plains Regional Climate Center The high plains is 2/3 farming area
High Plains information - U.S. Department of the Interior (with map)

	• • [ e] State of Colorado Denver (capital)
	Coloradans \| Economy \| Geography \| Highways \| History \| \| Law & Government \| \| \| National Parks \| Rivers \|
Anthems	Where the Columbines Grow \| Rocky Mountain High
Regions	Central Colorado \| Colorado Piedmont \| Colorado Plateau \| Denver‑Aurora Metropolitan Area \| Eastern Plains \| Front Range \| Grand Valley \| High Rockies \| Mineral Belt \| Roaring Fork Valley \| Sangre de Cristo Mountains \| San Luis Valley \| South‑Central Colorado \| Southwestern Colorado \| Uinta Mountains \| Western Slope
Cities	Arvada \| Aurora \| Boulder \| Broomfield \| Castle Rock \| Centennial \| Colorado Springs \| Commerce City \| Denver \| Fort Collins \| Grand Junction \| Greeley \| Lakewood \| Littleton \| Longmont \| Loveland \| Parker \| Pueblo \| Thornton \| Westminster
Counties	Adams \| Alamosa \| Arapahoe \| Archuleta \| Baca \| Bent \| Boulder \| Broomfield \| Chaffee \| Cheyenne \| Clear Creek \| Conejos \| Costilla \| Crowley \| Custer \| Delta \| Denver \| Dolores \| Douglas \| Eagle \| El Paso \| Elbert \| Fremont \| Garfield \| Gilpin \| Grand \| Gunnison \| Hinsdale \| Huerfano \| Jackson \| Jefferson \| Kiowa \| Kit Carson \| La Plata \| Lake \| Larimer \| Las Animas \| Lincoln \| Logan \| Mesa \| Mineral \| Moffat \| Montezuma \| Montrose \| Morgan \| Otero \| Ouray \| Park \| Phillips \| Pitkin \| Prowers \| Pueblo \| Rio Blanco \| Rio Grande \| Routt \| Saguache \| San Juan \| San Miguel \| Sedgwick \| Summit \| Teller \| Washington \| Weld \| Yuma

	• • [ e] State of Kansas Topeka (capital)
	History \| Governors \| Education \| Landmarks \| People \| Places \| Geography \| Demographics \| Economy
	Cherokee Strip \| Cross Timbers \| Dissected Till Plains \| East Central \| Flint Hills \| High Plains \| Kansas City Metropolitan Area \| Osage Plains \| The Ozarks \| Red Hills \| Santa Fe Trail Region \| Smoky Hills \| Southeast
Largest cities	Derby \| Dodge City \| Emporia \| Garden City \| Hays \| Hutchinson \| Kansas City \| Lawrence \| Leavenworth \| Leawood \| Lenexa \| Liberal \| Manhattan \| Olathe \| Overland Park \| Prairie Village \| Salina \| Shawnee \| Topeka \| Wichita
Counties	Allen \| Anderson \| Atchison \| Barber \| Barton \| Bourbon \| Brown \| Butler \| Chase \| Chautauqua \| Cherokee \| Cheyenne \| Clark \| Clay \| Cloud \| Coffey \| Comanche \| Cowley \| Crawford \| Decatur \| Dickinson \| Doniphan \| Douglas \| Edwards \| Elk \| Ellis \| Ellsworth \| Finney \| Ford \| Franklin \| Geary \| Gove \| Graham \| Grant \| Gray \| Greeley \| Greenwood \| Hamilton \| Harper \| Harvey \| Haskell \| Hodgeman \| Jackson \| Jefferson \| Jewell \| Johnson \| Kearny \| Kingman \| Kiowa \| Labette \| Lane \| Leavenworth \| Lincoln \| Linn \| Logan \| Lyon \| Marion \| Marshall \| McPherson \| Meade \| Miami \| Mitchell \| Montgomery \| Morris \| Morton \| Nemaha \| Neosho \| Ness \| Norton \| Osage \| Osborne \| Ottawa \| Pawnee \| Phillips \| Pottawatomie \| Pratt \| Rawlins \| Reno \| Republic \| Rice \| Riley \| Rooks \| Rush \| Russell \| Saline \| Scott \| Sedgwick \| Seward \| Shawnee \| Sheridan \| Sherman \| Smith \| Stafford \| Stanton \| Stevens \| Sumner \| Thomas \| Trego \| Wabaunsee \| Wallace \| Washington \| Wichita \| Wilson \| Woodson \| Wyandotte

	• • [ e] State of Montana Helena (capital)
	History \| Governors \| People \| Geography \| Demographics \| State Government
Regions	Bighorn Country \| Eastern Montana \| The Flathead \| Glacier National Park \| Inland Empire \| South Central Montana \| Southwestern Montana \| Western Montana \| Yellowstone
Largest cities	Anaconda \| Belgrade \| Billings \| Bozeman \| Butte \| Evergreen \| Glendive \| Great Falls \| Havre \| Helena \| Kalispell \| Laurel \| Lewistown \| Livingston \| Miles City \| Missoula \| Sidney \| Whitefish
Counties	Beaverhead \| Big Horn \| Blaine \| Broadwater \| Carbon \| Carter \| Cascade \| Chouteau \| Custer \| Daniels \| Dawson \| Deer Lodge \| Fallon \| Fergus \| Flathead \| Gallatin \| Garfield \| Glacier \| Golden Valley \| Granite \| Hill \| Jefferson \| Judith Basin \| Lake \| Lewis and Clark \| Liberty \| Lincoln \| Madison \| McCone \| Meagher \| Mineral \| Missoula \| Musselshell \| Park \| Petroleum \| Phillips \| Pondera \| Powder River \| Powell \| Prairie \| Ravalli \| Richland \| Roosevelt \| Rosebud \| Sanders \| Sheridan \| Silver Bow \| Stillwater \| Sweet Grass \| Teton \| Toole \| Treasure \| Valley \| Wheatland \| Wibaux \| Yellowstone

	• • [ e] State of Nebraska Lincoln (capital)
	Governors \| People \| Geography \| Demographics
Regions	Dissected Till Plains \| Omaha metropolitan area \| Panhandle \| Pine Ridge \| Rainwater Basin \| Sand Hills \| Siouxland \| Wildcat Hills
Largest cities	Alliance \| Beatrice \| Bellevue \| Columbus \| Fremont \| Gering \| Grand Island \| Hastings \| Kearney \| La Vista \| Lexington \| Lincoln \| McCook \| Norfolk \| North Platte \| Omaha \| Papillion \| Scottsbluff \| South Sioux City \| York
Counties	Adams \| Antelope \| Arthur \| Banner \| Blaine \| Boone \| Box Butte \| Boyd \| Brown \| Buffalo \| Burt \| Butler \| Cass \| Cedar \| Chase \| Cherry \| Cheyenne \| Clay \| Colfax \| Cuming \| Custer \| Dakota \| Dawes \| Dawson \| Deuel \| Dixon \| Dodge \| Douglas \| Dundy \| Fillmore \| Franklin \| Frontier \| Furnas \| Gage \| Garden \| Garfield \| Gosper \| Grant \| Greeley \| Hall \| Hamilton \| Harlan \| Hayes \| Hitchcock \| Holt \| Hooker \| Howard \| Jefferson \| Johnson \| Kearney \| Keith \| Keya Paha \| Kimball \| Knox \| Lancaster \| Lincoln \| Logan \| Loup \| Madison \| McPherson \| Merrick \| Morrill \| Nance \| Nemaha \| Nuckolls \| Otoe \| Pawnee \| Perkins \| Phelps \| Pierce \| Platte \| Polk \| Red Willow \| Richardson \| Rock \| Saline \| Sarpy \| Saunders \| Scotts Bluff \| Seward \| Sheridan \| Sherman \| Sioux \| Stanton \| Thayer \| Thomas \| Thurston \| Valley \| Washington \| Wayne \| Webster \| Wheeler \| York

	• • [ e] State of New Mexico Santa Fe (capital)
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Regions	Central New Mexico \| Colorado Plateau \| Eastern New Mexico \| Llano Estacado \| Northern New Mexico \| Permian Basin \| Sangre de Cristo Mountains \| San Luis Valley \| Southwestern New Mexico
Cities	Alamogordo \| Albuquerque \| Artesia \| Carlsbad \| Clovis \| Corrales \| Deming \| Espaola \| Farmington \| Gallup \| Grants \| Hobbs \| Las Cruces \| Las Vegas \| Los Alamos \| Los Lunas \| Lovington \| Portales \| Rio Rancho \| Roswell \| Ruidoso \| Santa Fe \| Silver City \| Socorro \| Sunland Park
Counties	Bernalillo \| Catron \| Chaves \| Cibola \| Colfax \| Curry \| De Baca \| Doa Ana \| Eddy \| Grant \| Guadalupe \| Harding \| Hidalgo \| Lea \| Lincoln \| Los Alamos \| Luna \| McKinley \| Mora \| Otero \| Quay \| Rio Arriba \| Roosevelt \| Sandoval \| San Juan \| San Miguel \| Santa Fe \| Sierra \| Socorro \| Taos \| Torrance \| Union \| Valencia

	• • [ e] State of Oklahoma Oklahoma City (capital)
	History \| Government \| Governors \| Symbols \| People \| Geography \| Economy \| Sports \| Demographics
Regions	Arklatex \| Central \| Cherokee Outlet \| Cross Timbers \| Flint Hills \| Green Country \| Kiamichi Country \| Little Dixie \| Northwestern \| Ouachita Mountains \| The Ozarks \| Panhandle \| South Central \| Southwestern
Largest cities	Broken Arrow \| Edmond \| Enid \| Lawton \| Midwest City \| Moore \| Norman \| Oklahoma City \| Stillwater \| Tulsa
Counties	Adair \| Alfalfa \| Atoka \| Beaver \| Beckham \| Blaine \| Bryan \| Caddo \| Canadian \| Carter \| Cherokee \| Choctaw \| Cimarron \| Cleveland \| Coal \| Comanche \| Cotton \| Craig \| Creek \| Custer \| Delaware \| Dewey \| Ellis \| Garfield \| Garvin \| Grady \| Grant \| Greer \| Harmon \| Harper \| Haskell \| Hughes \| Jackson \| Jefferson \| Johnston \| Kay \| Kingfisher \| Kiowa \| Latimer \| Le Flore \| Lincoln \| Logan \| Love \| Major \| Marshall \| Mayes \| McClain \| McCurtain \| McIntosh \| Murray \| Muskogee \| Noble \| Nowata \| Okfuskee \| Oklahoma \| Okmulgee \| Osage \| Ottawa \| Pawnee \| Payne \| Pittsburg \| Pontotoc \| Pottawatomie \| Pushmataha \| Roger Mills \| Rogers \| Seminole \| Sequoyah \| Stephens \| Texas \| Tillman \| Tulsa \| Wagoner \| Washington \| Washita \| Woods \| Woodward

	• • [ e] State of Texas Austin (capital)
Topics	Climate \| Culture \| Demographics \| Economy \| Education \| Geography \| Government \| History \| Languages \| Politics \| Texans \| Transportation \| Symbols
Regions	Ark‑La‑Tex \| Big Bend \| Blackland Prairies \| Brazos Valley \| Central Texas \| Coastal Bend \| Cross Timbers \| Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex \| Deep East Texas \| East Texas \| Edwards Plateau \| Galveston Bay \| Golden Triangle \| Greater Houston \| Llano Estacado \| Longview–Marshall \| Northeast Texas \| North Texas \| Osage Plains \| Permian Basin \| Piney Woods \| Rio Grande Valley \| Southeast Texas \| South Plains \| South Texas \| Texas Hill Country \| Texas Panhandle \| West Texas
Metropolitan Areas	Abilene \| Amarillo \| Austin–Round Rock \| Beaumont–Port Arthur \| Brownsville–Harlingen \| College Station–Bryan \| Corpus Christi \| Dallas–Fort Worth–Arlington \| El Paso \| Houston–Sugar Land–Baytown \| Killeen–Temple–Fort Hood \| Laredo \| Longview \| Lubbock \| McAllen–Edinburg–Mission \| Midland–Odessa \| San Angelo \| San Antonio \| Sherman–Denison \| Texarkana \| Tyler \| Victoria \| Waco \| Wichita Falls
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	• • [ e] State of Wyoming Cheyenne (capital)
	Governors \| Geography \| Government \| Economy \| History
Regions	Black Hills \| Grand Teton \| Great Basin \| Powder River Country \| Yellowstone
Cities	Casper \| Cheyenne \| Cody \| Evanston \| Gillette \| Green River \| Jackson \| Laramie \| Rawlins \| Riverton \| Rock Springs \| Sheridan \| Worland
Counties	Albany \| Big Horn \| Campbell \| Carbon \| Converse \| Crook \| Fremont \| Goshen \| Hot Springs \| Johnson \| Laramie \| Lincoln \| Natrona \| Niobrara \| Park \| Platte \| Sheridan \| Sublette \| Sweetwater \| Teton \| Uinta \| Washakie \| Weston

	• • [ e] State of South Dakota Pierre (capital)
	Government \| Geography \| History \| Demographics
Regions	Badlands \| Black Hills \| Coteau des Prairies \| Coteau du Missouri \| Pine Ridge \| Siouxland
Cities	Aberdeen \| Brandon \| Brookings \| Huron \| Madison \| Mitchell \| Pierre \| Rapid City \| Sioux Falls \| Spearfish \| Sturgis \| Vermillion \| Watertown \| Yankton
Counties	Aurora \| Beadle \| Bennett \| Bon Homme \| Brookings \| Brown \| Brule \| Buffalo \| Butte \| Campbell \| Charles Mix \| Clark \| Clay \| Codington \| Corson \| Custer \| Davison \| Day \| Deuel \| Dewey \| Douglas \| Edmunds \| Fall River \| Faulk \| Grant \| Gregory \| Haakon \| Hamlin \| Hand \| Hanson \| Harding \| Hughes \| Hutchinson \| Hyde \| Jackson \| Jerauld \| Jones \| Kingsbury \| Lake \| Lawrence \| Lincoln \| Lyman \| Marshall \| McCook \| McPherson \| Meade \| Mellette \| Miner \| Minnehaha \| Moody \| Pennington \| Perkins \| Potter \| Roberts \| Sanborn \| Shannon \| Spink \| Stanley \| Sully \| Todd \| Tripp \| Turner \| Union \| Walworth \| Yankton \| Ziebach

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The High Plains of South-Eastern Australia are a region, or more strictly a string of adjacent areas, in and adjacent to the Great Dividing Range. They were long used for summer grazing, in some cases since the 1830s. Much of the region is now National Park.
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Great Plains are the broad expanse of prairie and steppe which lie east of the Rocky Mountains in the United States and Canada. This area covers parts of the U.S. states of Colorado, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas and Wyoming, and
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"E Pluribus Unum" ("From Many, One"; Latin, traditional)
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Nickname(s): The Centennial State
Motto(s): Nil sine numine

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State of Kansas

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Nickname(s): The Sunflower State
Motto(s): Ad astra per aspera

Official language(s) English^[1]

Capital Topeka
Largest city Wichita
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State of Nebraska

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Nickname(s): Cornhusker State
Motto(s): Equality before the law

Official language(s) English

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Largest city Omaha

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State of Montana

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Nickname(s): Treasure State, Big Sky Country
Motto(s): Oro y plata (Gold and silver)

Official language(s) English

Capital Helena
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State of New Mexico

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Nickname(s): Land of Enchantment / Tierra del Encanto
Motto(s): Crescit eundo

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State of Oklahoma

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Nickname(s): Sooner State
Motto(s): Labor omnia vincit (Latin: Labor conquers all things)

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Nickname(s): Lone Star State
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Nickname(s): Equality State, Cowboy State,
Motto(s): Equal rights

Official language(s) English

Capital Cheyenne
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State of South Dakota

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Nickname(s): The Mount Rushmore State (official),
The Sunshine State
Motto(s): Under God the people rule

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State of North Dakota

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Nickname(s): Peace Garden State,
Roughrider State, Flickertail State
Motto(s): Liberty and union, now and forever, one and inseparable;
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A Semi-arid climate or steppe climate generally describes climatic regions that receive low annual rainfall (250-500 mm or 10-20 in). A more precise definition is given by the Köppen climate classification that treats steppe climates (BS) as intermediates between the desert
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The shortgrass prairie ecosystem of the North American Great Plains is a prairie that formerly encompassed lands from the eastern foothills of the Rocky Mountains east to Nebraska, including rangelands in Colorado and Kansas, and extending to the south through the high plains of
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Scrubland is plant community characterized by scrub vegetation. "Scrub" consists of low shrubs, mixed with grasses, herbs, and geophytes. Scrublands are sometimes known as heathlands. Scrublands may be either naturally occurring or the result of human activity.
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A butte (IPA: /bju:t/) is an isolated hill with steep sides and a small flat top, smaller than mesas and plateaus. Buttes are prevalent in the western United States and on the Hawaiian Islands, especially around Honolulu.
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Cotton is a soft fibre that grows around the seeds of the cotton plant (Gossypium sp.), a shrub native to tropical and subtropical regions around the world, including the Americas, India, and Africa.
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Petroleum (Latin Petroleum derived from Greek πέτρα (Latin petra) - rock + έλαιον (Latin oleum) - oil) or crude oil
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gas, especially when compared to other energy sources such as electricity. Before natural gas can be used as a fuel, it must undergo extensive processing to remove almost all materials other than methane.
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	• • [ e] State of Kansas Topeka (capital)
	History \| Governors \| Education \| Landmarks \| People \| Places \| Geography \| Demographics \| Economy
	Cherokee Strip \| Cross Timbers \| Dissected Till Plains \| East Central \| Flint Hills \| High Plains \| Kansas City Metropolitan Area \| Osage Plains \| The Ozarks \| Red Hills \| Santa Fe Trail Region \| Smoky Hills \| Southeast
Largest cities	Derby \| Dodge City \| Emporia \| Garden City \| Hays \| Hutchinson \| Kansas City \| Lawrence \| Leavenworth \| Leawood \| Lenexa \| Liberal \| Manhattan \| Olathe \| Overland Park \| Prairie Village \| Salina \| Shawnee \| Topeka \| Wichita
Counties	Allen \| Anderson \| Atchison \| Barber \| Barton \| Bourbon \| Brown \| Butler \| Chase \| Chautauqua \| Cherokee \| Cheyenne \| Clark \| Clay \| Cloud \| Coffey \| Comanche \| Cowley \| Crawford \| Decatur \| Dickinson \| Doniphan \| Douglas \| Edwards \| Elk \| Ellis \| Ellsworth \| Finney \| Ford \| Franklin \| Geary \| Gove \| Graham \| Grant \| Gray \| Greeley \| Greenwood \| Hamilton \| Harper \| Harvey \| Haskell \| Hodgeman \| Jackson \| Jefferson \| Jewell \| Johnson \| Kearny \| Kingman \| Kiowa \| Labette \| Lane \| Leavenworth \| Lincoln \| Linn \| Logan \| Lyon \| Marion \| Marshall \| McPherson \| Meade \| Miami \| Mitchell \| Montgomery \| Morris \| Morton \| Nemaha \| Neosho \| Ness \| Norton \| Osage \| Osborne \| Ottawa \| Pawnee \| Phillips \| Pottawatomie \| Pratt \| Rawlins \| Reno \| Republic \| Rice \| Riley \| Rooks \| Rush \| Russell \| Saline \| Scott \| Sedgwick \| Seward \| Shawnee \| Sheridan \| Sherman \| Smith \| Stafford \| Stanton \| Stevens \| Sumner \| Thomas \| Trego \| Wabaunsee \| Wallace \| Washington \| Wichita \| Wilson \| Woodson \| Wyandotte

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