Editing Farwell, Texas (section)

==Geography==
Farwell lies on the level plains of the [[Llano Estacado]] at {{coord|34|22|59|N|103|2|18|W|type:city}} (34.382919, –103.038339).<ref name="GR1">{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/geographies/reference-files/time-series/geo/gazetteer-files.html|publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]]|access-date=2011-04-23|date=2011-02-12|title=US Gazetteer files: 2010, 2000, and 1990}}</ref> According to the [[United States Census Bureau]], the city has a total area of {{convert|0.8|sqmi|km2}}, all land.

It is located {{convert|10|mi|0}} east of [[Clovis, New Mexico]], {{convert|88|mi|0}} northwest of [[Lubbock, Texas]], and 95&nbsp;mi (152.888&nbsp;km) southwest of [[Amarillo, Texas]]. It lies at the junction of two branches of the [[BNSF Railway]] from Belen. One branch goes northeast toward [[Amarillo, Texas|Amarillo]] and the Midwest; the other southeast toward [[Lubbock, Texas|Lubbock]] and the Texas Gulf Coast.

For years, a dispute had been simmering over which state Farwell (and her sister city on the other side of the state line, Texico) is lawfully a part of: Texas or New Mexico. The straight north–south border between the two states was originally defined as the [[103rd meridian west|103rd meridian]], but the 1859 survey that was supposed to mark that boundary mistakenly set the border between 2.29 and 3.77 miles too far west of that line, making the current towns of [[Texline, Texas|Texline]], Farwell, [[Bledsoe, Texas|Bledsoe]], Bronco and a [[Glenrio, Texas|part of Glenrio]] appear to be within Texas. New Mexico's short border with Oklahoma, in contrast, was surveyed on the correct meridian. New Mexico's draft constitution in 1910 stated that the border is on the 103rd meridian as intended. The disputed strip, hundreds of miles long, includes parts of valuable [[oilfields]] of the [[Permian Basin (North America)|Permian Basin]]. A bill was passed in the [[New Mexico Senate]] to fund and file a lawsuit in the [[U.S. Supreme Court]] to recover the strip from Texas, but the bill did not become law. Today, land in the strip is included in Texas land surveys and all purposes is taxed and governed by the State of Texas.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kbtx.com/home/headlines/1357432.html|title=Border War Brewing?|author=Daniel Gertson|access-date=2016-09-24|archive-date=April 18, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180418162341/http://www.kbtx.com/home/headlines/1357432.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>