First Tree Texas High Plains

Inscription

First tree Texas High Plains, set front dugout home by Thomas Cree 1888. Good luck symbol of settlers through drought, blizzard and heat. Cree's bois d'arc tree died in the 1970s. County residents planted a new tree here in 1990 as a memorial to the area'

• On the Texas Plains Trail
• 82.5 mi off the Historic Route 66National

Local time (America/Chicago).

35.31065, -101.46150

Elevation 1,061 m (modelled from terrain)

• OpenStreetMap record