Bet YOUR Central Texas County can't match rural Navarro County in man-made or natural disasters.
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Battle Creek Massacre 1838 - near Dawson, Tx ( 18 dead in surveyor party from Indian attack);

Powell Tx Oil Field Fire 1923 ( 13 dead when oil rig catches fire);

Frost Tx Tornado 1930 ( 22 dead );

Heartbroken Teenage BeBop Lost H.S. Girlfriend 1956 (who ran off and married older guy)

Dawson Tx Braniff Airline Crash 1968 ( 78 passengers, 5 crew dead)

Space Shuttle "Columbia" - disintegration 2003 ( 7 crew members and shuttle remnants scattered all over Eastern Navarro County - and other wide areas of E. Texas)

[This message has been edited by BeBopAg (edited 1/13/2012 6:38p).]