List of National Natural Landmarks in Texas
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There are 21 National Natural Landmarks in Texas.
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! style="background-color:{{NNL color}}" | Name ! style="background-color:{{NNL color}}" class=unsortable | Image ! style="background-color:{{NNL color}}" | Date ! style="background-color:{{NNL color}}" | Location ! style="background-color:{{NNL color}}" | County ! style="background-color:{{NNL color}}" | Ownership ! style="background-color:{{NNL color}}" class=unsortable | Description | |
Attwater Prairie Chicken Preserve
| 100 px | {{dts|1968}} | {{coord|29.668827|N|96.266751|W|format=dms|display=inline|name=Attwater Prairie Chicken Preserve}} | Colorado | federal/US Fish & Wildlife Service | Contains the only significant segment of gulf coastal prairie. | |
Bayside Resaca Area
| | {{dts|1980}} | {{coord|26.229081|N|97.347231|W|format=dms|display=inline|name=Bayside Resaca Area}} | Cameron | federal/US Fish & Wildlife Service | Located in Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge, contains an excellent example of a resaca. | |
Catfish Creek
| | {{dts|1983}} | {{coord|31|54|27|N|95|54|09|W | display=inline|name=Catfish Creek}}
| Anderson | state/Texas Department of Parks and Wildlife | One of the few remaining undisturbed riparian habitats in the western Gulf Coastal Plain |
Caverns of Sonora
| 100px | {{dts|1965}} | {{coord|30|33|18|N|100|48|44|W|display=inline|name=Caverns of Sonora}} | Sutton | private | Contains unusual formations, such as bladed helictites and coralloid growths | |
Devil's Sinkhole
| | {{dts|1972}} | {{coord|30.015773|N|100.208552|W|format=dms|display=inline|name=Devil's Sinkhole}} | Edwards | state/Texas Department of Parks and Wildlife | A deep, bell-shaped, collapsed limestone sink. | |
Dinosaur Valley State Park
| File:DinosaurValleyStatePark015.JPG | {{dts|1968}} | {{coord|32.246194|N|97.813375|W|format=dms|display=inline|name=Dinosaur Valley State Park}} | state/Texas Department of Parks and Wildlife | The only known source of distinct and full-grown sauropod footprints. | |
Ezell's Cave
| | {{dts|1971}} | | Hays | private | Houses at least 36 species of cave fauna. | |
Enchanted Rock
| File:Enchanted rock 2006.jpg | {{dts|1971}} | {{coord|30.496033|N|98.819952|W|format=dms|display=inline|name=Enchanted Rock}} | state/Texas Department of Parks and Wildlife | A classic illustration of a batholith and of the exfoliation process. | |
Fort Worth Nature Center and Refuge
| | {{dts|1980}} | {{coord|32.843450|N|97.477225|W|format=dms|display=inline|name=Fort Worth Nature Center and Refuge}} | Tarrant | municipal/City of Fort Worth | Contains outstanding examples of the unique oak-hickory forest associations called cross timbers. | |
Greenwood Canyon
| | {{dts|1975}} | | Montague | private | A rich source of early Cretaceous mammalian fossils. | |
High Plains Natural Area
| File:Buffalo Lake Texas Dam 2009.jpg | {{dts|1980}} | {{coord|34.919517|N|102.111118|W|format=dms|display=inline|name=High Plains Natural Area}} | Randall | federal/US Fish & Wildlife Service | One of the best developed, least disturbed natural shortgrass climax communities remaining in the Great Plains. Part of Buffalo Lake National Wildlife Refuge. | |
Independence Creek Preserve
| |2024 | |private |{{Cite web |title=Southern Texas Desert Oasis (U.S. National Park Service) |url=https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/southern-texas-desert-oasis.htm |access-date=2024-10-04 |website=www.nps.gov |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Independence Creek Preserve |url=https://www.nps.gov/subjects/nnlandmarks/site.htm?Site=INCR-TX |access-date=2024-10-04 |website=www.nps.gov |language=en}} | |
Little Blanco River Bluff
| | {{dts|1982}} | | Blanco | private | An unspoiled example of the limestone bluff communities of the Edwards Plateau. | |
Longhorn Cavern
| File:Longhorn cavern entrance.jpg | {{dts|1971}} | {{coord|30.684441|N|98.350970|W|format=dms|display=inline|name=Longhorn Cavern}} | Burnet | state/Texas Department of Parks and Wildlife | State park contains an outstanding example of cave features formed during the phreatic phase of development. | |
Lost Maples State Natural Area
| File:Lost Maples State Natural Area, Edwards Plateau, Texas, United States.jpg | {{dts|1980}} | {{coord|29.807719|N|99.570697|W|format=dms|display=inline|name=Lost Maples State Natural Area}} | state/Texas Department of Parks and Wildlife | An excellent illustration of Edwards Plateau flora and fauna. | |
Muleshoe National Wildlife Refuge
| File:SandhillCranesMuleshoeNWR.jpg | {{dts|1980}} | {{coord|33.955295|N|102.776973|W|format=dms|display=inline|name=Muleshoe National Wildlife Refuge}} | Bailey | federal/US Fish & Wildlife Service | Saline lake beds, and shortgrass grama grasslands characteristic of the high plains. | |
Odessa Meteor Crater
| File:Odessa Meteor Crater Museum 2009.jpg | {{dts|1965}} | {{coord|31.756998|N|102.479125|W|format=dms|display=inline|name=Odessa Meteor Crater}} | Ector | county | Contains two meteorite impact craters. The largest is {{convert|550|ft|m}} in diameter. | |
Palo Duro Canyon State Park
| {{dts|1976}} | {{coord|34.984709|N|101.701867|W|format=dms|display=inline|name=Palo Duro Canyon State Park}} | state/Texas Department of Parks and Wildlife | Spectacular canyon that is an excellent example of a landform created by running water. | |
Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge
| File:Gallinula galeata and Anas discors Santa Ana NWR.jpg | {{dts|1966}} | {{coord|26.08522|N|98.13448|W|format=dms|display=inline|name=Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge}} | Hidalgo | federal/US Fish & Wildlife Service | A living museum of the lowland forested area of the Lower Rio Grande Valley. | |
Natural Bridge Caverns
| File:NaturalBridgeCaverns11.jpg | {{dts|1971}} | {{coord|29.692351|N|98.342760|W|format=dms|display=inline|name=Natural Bridge Caverns}} | Comal | private | A multilevel cavern system containing unusual speleothems and intricate helictites. | |
Cave Without a Name
| {{dts|2009}} | {{coord|29.8791769|N|98.6419260|W|format=dms|display=inline|name=Cave Without a Name}} | Kendall | private | Contains rare and nationally outstanding examples of speleothems. |
See also
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