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City Government
City Services
Ralls History
City Activities/ Festivals
Chamber of Commerce
Ralls ISD
City Demographics
Community Storm Shelter
Check out these local
businesses online
Bed and Breakfast:
The Smith House
The Name Dropper
www.rallsnamedropper.com
Come visit new owner Patty
Author
The Ralls Snack Bar
reopened its doors this month, go have a treat at the old time soda and sandwich
shop.
2008
EVENT
CALENDAR
October 17, 2008
Noon Chamber Quarterly
Luncheon at Storm Shelter
October 28, 2008
P&Z Meeting Public Hearing,
Ralls EMS Center, 6:30 p.m.,
November 3, 2008
City Council Public
Hearing, Ralls EMS Center, 6:30 p.m.,
Both Public Hearings to
discuss rezoning King Addition from Residential to Industrial Zone.
October 31, 2008
Trunk or Treat:
6-7p.m. At the RHS
Auditorium Parking lot, just before the last home game against Lockney.
December 5, 2008
City Wide Open House
All businesses open their
doors to welcome in the Christmas Holiday, The Chamber will have a silent
auction at the Storm Shelter and Santa Clause will come to the City Square that
evening.
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RALLS, TEXAS, Crosby County
Total population: 2252
Male: 1050
Female:1202
Population 25 years or over:1321
Median household income: 23,892
SOUTH PLAINS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT SOURCES
SBDC
LEDA
SPAG
SPED
SPEDTF
LOCAL BUSINESS ENTERPRISES
Brownfield Biodiesel
Topography:Ralls is
located on the High Plains portion of Crosby County. This portion of the
country typifies the general relief of this land area, consisting of nearly
level to gently undulating plains with scattered playa lakes. These playa lakes
are depressions that gather the runoff water from the rainfall.
 Pedology:
The wind erosion susceptibility of the solid in the Ralls area is moderate.
There are deep, nearly level to gently sloping loamy upland soils with loamy to
clayey soil in the playas. Permeability is moderate to slow. The soils in the
Ralls area of Crosby County are primarily of the Pullman series and also the
Randle, Olton, Lofton, Drake and Zita series.
Hydrology: The High
Plains area that Ralls occupies has hydrographic problems. Scanty rainfall here
is part of the problem. As mentioned in the geology of this area, the beds of
sand and gravel deposits saturated with water are the only natural source of
water and soil saturation is moderate to slow. Rainfall and melting snow run
into the various scattered playas, but the Randall soils in these playas are
clayed, and therefore have very slow drainage. Standing water in these playas
is quickly evaporated. Irrigation is necessary for successful crops.
Climate: Ralls has a
sub-humid climate. This city lies in an area that is transitional between the
more desert like region of eastern New Mexico and the more humid region of
central and east Texas.
Rains
occur most frequently in thunderstorms and the amounts of monthly and annual
rainfall vary greatly. The Maximum rainfall is generally during May, June and
July when warm moist air from the Gulf of Mexico is carried inland. This air
mass causes moderate to heavy thunderstorms in the afternoon and evening. Snow
falls occasionally during the winter months, but is generally light and remains
on the ground only a short time. The mean monthly snowfall data are influenced
by rare, but exceptionally heavy snows.
Temperatures, like rainfall vary greatly, especially during the colder six
months of the year. Cold spells are rather short, and rarely last more than 48
hours before winds from the west and southwest bring rapid warming. Ralls
winters are mild and surprisingly warm. Summer days are hot, with low humidity
making it seem cooler due to light breezes and circulating winds. Most summer
nights are pleasantly cool.
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