Floydada

Geography

Floydada is located southwest of the center of Floyd County. U.S. Route 62 enters from the southwest as Ralls Highway and leads east out of town as Houston Street, while U.S. Route 70 enters from the north as Second Street and joins US 62 to exit town on Houston Street. Via US 62, Lubbock is southwest, while US 70 leads northwest to Plainview. The two highways run east together to Matador. Texas State Highway 207 leads north from Floydada to Silverton. According to the United States Census Bureau, Floydada has a total area of , all of it land. Floydada lies on the High Plains of the Llano Estacado around west of the Caprock Escarpment. Blanco Canyon, a scenic canyon carved by the White River, is to the south. The terrain surrounding Floydada consists of level plains that at one time were covered with grassland vegetation and populated with bison. The bison were extirpated, and with the exception of Blanco Canyon, the shortgrass prairie has been replaced by plowed cropland, where cotton, grain sorghum, wheat, and pumpkins are grown.

Most-observed species

• Mourning Dove

  Zenaida macroura (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  198
• Western Kingbird

  Tyrannus verticalis Say, 1823 · Aves
  155
• Great-tailed Grackle

  Quiscalus mexicanus (Gmelin, 1788) · Aves
  126
• House Sparrow

  Passer domesticus (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  114
• Red-winged Blackbird

  Agelaius phoeniceus (Linnaeus, 1766) · Aves
  107
• Killdeer

  Charadrius vociferus Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  105
• Eurasian Collared-Dove

  Streptopelia decaocto (Frivaldszky, 1838) · Aves
  105
• European Starling

  Sturnus vulgaris Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  99

Most recent

• M 3.1 — 2022-07-22
  27 km SW of Girard, Texas
• M 2.6 — 2022-04-30
  8 km E of Anton, Texas