Tree delivery and planting in Millican

The ground in Brazos County: Brazos County's soils range from alluvial to sandy, and between 11 and 20 percent of its land is considered prime farmland. The county covers 588 square miles of rolling prairie and woodland, 200 to 350 feet above sea level. (source)

Trees that already grow around Millican: The northern third of Brazos County is Blackland Prairie, where elm, oak, pecan and mesquite grow along the streams. The rest of the county lies in the Post Oak Savannah vegetation area, which features post oak, walnut and pecan trees. (source)

The weather in Brazos County to plan planting around: Brazos County averages thirty-nine inches of rain a year and has a growing season of 268 days; July highs average 95°F and January lows 39°F. (source)

About Millican: Millican takes its name from Robert Millican, who with his son settled the area in the 1820s. From 1860 to 1867 Millican was the end of the line for the Houston and Texas Central Railway, which spurred the town's growth. During the Civil War the town served as a training camp for about 5,000 Confederate soldiers. A 2006 Texas Attorney General ruling concluded Millican was no longer an incorporated municipality. Millican sits between the Brazos and Navasota rivers in southern Brazos County, in rolling countryside that forms part of the East Texas timberlands. Known as Millican Crossroads by 1845, the community gained a post office in 1849, and a stagecoach line from Houston reached it by 1850. In the 1920s Phillips Petroleum drilled a 17,000-foot well into a salt dome near Millican, but the effort found no oil. (source, source)