Topic summary
Dallas/Fort Worth
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex.
Geography
Many areas of Denton, Johnson, Parker, Tarrant, and Wise counties are located in the Fort Worth Prairie region of North Texas, which has less fertile and more rocky soil than that of the Texas blackland prairie; most of the rural land on the Fort Worth Prairie is ranch land. A large onshore natural gas field, the Barnett Shale, lies underneath this area; Denton, Tarrant and Wise counties feature many natural gas wells. Continuing land use change results in scattered crop fields surrounded by residential or commercial development. South of Dallas/Fort Worth is a line of rugged hills that goes north to south about fifteen miles (24 km) that looks similar to the Texas Hill Country 200 miles (320 km) to the south.