Editing Seymour, Texas (section)

==Geography==
Seymour is located on the [[Brazos River]].<ref>''Seymour West, TX,'' 7.5 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1966</ref> It is {{convert|52|mi}} southwest of [[Wichita Falls, Texas|Wichita Falls]] and {{convert|102|mi}} north-northeast of [[Abilene, Texas|Abilene]].

According to the [[United States Census Bureau]], the city has a total area of {{convert|7.6|sqkm|order=flip}}, of which {{convert|0.01|sqkm|order=flip|3}}, or 0.20%, is covered by water.<ref name="Census 2010">{{cite web| url=http://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/DEC/10_DP/G001/1600000US4866968| archive-url=https://archive.today/20200212201350/http://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/DEC/10_DP/G001/1600000US4866968| url-status=dead| archive-date=February 12, 2020| title=Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Seymour city, Texas| publisher=U.S. Census Bureau, American Factfinder| access-date=April 9, 2014}}</ref>

===Climate===
The climate is [[Humid subtropical climate|humid subtropical]] ([[Köppen climate classification|Köppen]]: ''Cfa'') with an extreme temperature deviation, but much of the time, the variation is always more and the warm weather prevails over the cold as the averages and the records show. Its [[Subtropics|subtropical location]] and south of the center of a large land mass bring occasional outbreaks even to a latitude and not very high altitude. The climate in this area is characterized by hot, humid summers and generally mild to cool winters, sometimes cold.<ref>[http://www.weatherbase.com/weather/weather-summary.php3?s=122814&cityname=Seymour%2C+Texas%2C+United+States+of+America&units= Climate Summary for Seymour, Texas]</ref> On August 12, 1936, Seymour witnessed the record highest temperature in Texas (120&nbsp;°F) (49&nbsp;°C), a record that was tied by the city of [[Monahans, Texas|Monahans]] on June 28, 1994.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/extremes/scec/records|title=State Climate Extremes Committee (SCEC) {{!}} Extremes {{!}} National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI)|last=Enloe|website=ncdc.noaa.gov|language=en|access-date=2017-04-12}}</ref>
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===Geology===
{{see also|Geology of Wichita Falls, Texas}}
Seymour is within the area underlain by [[Red Beds of Texas and Oklahoma|Texas Red Beds]], which are [[stratum|strata]] of red-colored [[sedimentary rock]] from the [[Cisuralian|Early Permian]]. The fossils of Permian-period vertebrates in the Texas Red Beds were first discovered by [[Edward Drinker Cope]] in 1877.<ref>
Cope, E. D. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/982295 Descriptions of extinct vertebrata from the Permian and Triassic formations of the United States.] Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 1877. Volume 17:182–195. JSTOR. Accessed on August 28, 2017.</ref><ref>Case, E.C.[https://www.jstor.org/stable/30060764 The Red Beds between Wichita Falls, Texas, and Las Vegas, New Mexico, in Relation to Their Vertebrate Fauna.] The Journal of Geology, vol. 22, no. 3, 1914, pp. 243–259. JSTOR. Accessed on August 28, 2017.</ref> Subsequent research has revealed rare fossils of Permian amphibians such as ''[[Trimerorhachis]]'',<ref>Henry,
 Randy. [https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/detail/tx/home/?cid=nrcs144p2_003201 NRCS and Landowner Team Up With Houston Museum after Rare Species Discovery.] Natural Resources Conservation Service. Accessed on August 28, 2017.</ref> as well as rich deposits of other Permian [[tetrapod]]s such as ''[[Dimetrodon]]'' and ''[[Diadectes]]''.<ref>Caulfield, Dave. [http://www.newschannel6now.com/story/30368034/prehistoric-predators-fossil-findings-in-seymour-redefining Prehistoric Predators: Fossil Findings in Seymour 'Redefining'.] Newschannel 6: October 25, 2015. Accessed on August 28, 2017.</ref> The order [[Seymouriamorpha]] and genus ''[[Seymouria]]'', which were first discovered in the Seymour area, are named after the city.<ref>Williston, S. W. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/30063488 Restoration of Seymouria Baylorensis Broili, an American Cotylosaur.] The Journal of Geology: 1911, vol. 19, no. 3, pp. 232–237. JSTOR. Accessed on August 28, 2017.</ref>