Great Plains

E9201

ecoregion geographical region grassland

The Great Plains is a vast, mostly flat grassland region in central North America known for its prairies, agriculture, and continental climate.

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All labels observed (60)

Label	Occurrences
Great Plains canonical	789
Great Plains region	57
United States Great Plains region	53
Northern Plains	44
High Plains	36
Northern Great Plains	34
United States Great Plains	30
Great Plains region of the United States	10
Interior Plains	8
American Great Plains	5
Central Plains	5
North American Great Plains	5
Southern Great Plains	3
Central Great Plains	2
Great Plains of the United States	2
Great Plains periphery	2
Great Plains physiographic province	2
North American Prairie	2
Prairie-Plains	2
northern Great Plains	2
western Great Plains	2
Canadian Prairies	1
Central Till Plains	1
Great Plains (eastern edge)	1
Great Plains (parts)	1
Great Plains ecoregions	1
Great Plains of Colorado	1
Great Plains physiographic region	1
Great Plains region (cultural focus)	1
Great Plains region (eastern edge)	1
Great Plains region of North America	1
Great Plains section	1
Great Plains states	1
Great Plains steppe	1
Great Plains wheat belt	1
Great Plains, United States	1
Interior Plains of North America	1
Llano Estacado	1
Nebraska plains	1
Nebraska prairie	1
North American Great Plains grassland biome	1
North American Plains	1
North American prairie	1
North Dakota plains	1
Northern Great Plains dinosaur-bearing regions	1
Northern Great Plains physiographic province	1
Northern Great Plains region	1
Northern United States Plains	1
Plains	1
Plains cultural area	1
Prairie Pothole Region	1
Prairies	1
Prairies region	1
Prairie–Great Plains cross-border region	1
The Prairies	1
U.S. Great Plains region	1
United States Great Plains agricultural region	1
United States Great Plains area	1
United States Great Plains–desert transition region	1
United States Interior Plains	1

Statements (59)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	ecoregion ⓘ geographical region ⓘ grassland ⓘ
borders	Interior Lowlands ⓘ Mississippi River basin ⓘ Rocky Mountains ⓘ
characterizedBy	continental climate ⓘ flat to gently rolling terrain ⓘ prairie grasslands ⓘ semiarid conditions ⓘ
climateType	humid continental climate ⓘ semiarid steppe climate ⓘ
contains	Great Plains self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: High Plains Mixed-grass prairie ⓘ Ogallala Aquifer ⓘ Shortgrass prairie ⓘ Tallgrass prairie ⓘ
continent	North America ⓘ
countrySubdivision	Alberta ⓘ Kansas ⓘ Manitoba ⓘ Montana ⓘ Nebraska ⓘ North Dakota ⓘ Oklahoma ⓘ Saskatchewan ⓘ South Dakota ⓘ Texas Panhandle ⓘ Wyoming ⓘ eastern Colorado ⓘ eastern New Mexico ⓘ
extendsFrom	Canada ⓘ
extendsTo	Mexico ⓘ New Mexico ⓘ Texas ⓘ
historicalEvent	Dust Bowl ⓘ
historicallyInhabitedBy	Blackfoot ⓘ Cheyenne ⓘ Comanche ⓘ Sioux people ⓘ surface form: Lakota Pawnee ⓘ Native Americans ⓘ surface form: Plains Indians
historicalPeriod	19th-century westward expansion in the United States ⓘ
knownFor	agriculture ⓘ cattle ranching ⓘ corn production ⓘ oil and gas extraction ⓘ wheat production ⓘ
locatedIn	Canada ⓘ United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
majorRiver	Arkansas River ⓘ Canadian River ⓘ Missouri River ⓘ Platte River ⓘ Red River of the South ⓘ
partOf	Interior Lowlands ⓘ surface form: Interior Plains
subjectTo	blizzards ⓘ droughts ⓘ tornadoes ⓘ

Referenced by (1,134)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

North America → hasNotableFeature → Great Plains ⓘ

Midwestern United States → contains → Great Plains ⓘ

mule deer → foundIn → Great Plains ⓘ

Sioux County, Iowa → partOf → Great Plains ⓘ

this entity surface form: Great Plains region

German Americans → notableEarlySettlement → Great Plains ⓘ

Dust Bowl → hasLocation → Great Plains ⓘ

Tornado Alley (southern and central parts) → locatedIn → Great Plains ⓘ

contiguous United States → containsGeographicalFeature → Great Plains ⓘ

Shattuck, Oklahoma → partOf → Great Plains ⓘ

Shattuck, Oklahoma → locatedIn → Great Plains ⓘ

this entity surface form: United States Great Plains region

Old West → includesRegion → Great Plains ⓘ

Lincoln Highway (historic alignment via U.S. 40) → passesThrough → Great Plains ⓘ

Interstate 29 → locatedInRegion → Great Plains ⓘ

Interstate 29 → servesRegion → Great Plains ⓘ

this entity surface form: Northern Great Plains

Great Plains → contains → Great Plains self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: High Plains

eastern New Mexico → partOf → Great Plains ⓘ

subject surface form: Eastern New Mexico

this entity surface form: High Plains

eastern New Mexico → partOf → Great Plains ⓘ

subject surface form: Eastern New Mexico

Black Sunday → locatedIn → Great Plains ⓘ

subject surface form: Black Sunday (dust storm)

Interstate 80 → regionServed → Great Plains ⓘ

Denver, Colorado, United States → locatedOn → Great Plains ⓘ

this entity surface form: High Plains

Dirty Thirties → mainRegion → Great Plains ⓘ

U.S. state of Oklahoma → locatedIn → Great Plains ⓘ

subject surface form: Oklahoma

U.S. state of Oklahoma → hasMajorPhysiographicRegion → Great Plains ⓘ

subject surface form: Oklahoma

Native Americans → historicalRegion → Great Plains ⓘ

Aberdeen, South Dakota, United States → region → Great Plains ⓘ

subject surface form: Aberdeen, South Dakota

Algonquian languages → region → Great Plains ⓘ

eastern Oklahoma → locatedInRegion → Great Plains ⓘ

this entity surface form: Great Plains periphery

Duncan, Oklahoma, United States → partOf → Great Plains ⓘ

subject surface form: Duncan, Oklahoma

this entity surface form: United States Great Plains region

Manitoba → region → Great Plains ⓘ

this entity surface form: Prairies

Upper Mississippi Valley → borderedBy → Great Plains ⓘ

Corn Belt → locatedIn → Great Plains ⓘ

this entity surface form: Great Plains region

Sioux Center, Iowa → isLocatedIn → Great Plains ⓘ

this entity surface form: Great Plains region

Kaw → culturalRegion → Great Plains ⓘ

this entity surface form: Prairie-Plains

Ellis, Kansas, United States → partOf → Great Plains ⓘ

subject surface form: Ellis, Kansas

Hawarden, Iowa → geographicRegion → Great Plains ⓘ

this entity surface form: Great Plains periphery

Union County, South Dakota → locatedIn → Great Plains ⓘ

Americas → containsSubregion → Great Plains ⓘ

U.S. Route 75 → locatedInRegion → Great Plains ⓘ

Sioux people → nativeTo → Great Plains ⓘ

Sioux people → historicalTerritory → Great Plains ⓘ

this entity surface form: Northern Plains

Nebraska → locatedIn → Great Plains ⓘ

Nebraska → region → Great Plains ⓘ

Topeka, Kansas → locatedInRegion → Great Plains ⓘ

Kaw Nation → historicalTerritory → Great Plains ⓘ

Interstate 70 → traversesRegion → Great Plains ⓘ

Santa Fe Trail → traverses → Great Plains ⓘ

Southwest Chief → traversesRegion → Great Plains ⓘ

Missouri River → region → Great Plains ⓘ

Planet Earth → hasEpisode → Great Plains ⓘ