The Dust Bowl happened on the southern Great Plains of the United States, mainly in parts of Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado, and New Mexico.

Core location

  • The region most often called “the Dust Bowl” was:
    • Western Kansas.
* Southeastern Colorado.

* The Oklahoma Panhandle.

* The northern two‑thirds of the Texas Panhandle.

* Northeastern New Mexico.
  • These areas together formed a drought‑stricken, wind‑eroded zone of about 100 million acres in the mid‑1930s.

Wider effects

  • Dust storms from this region sometimes blew far enough to drop dust on Midwestern and East Coast cities, including Washington, D.C., showing that the disaster’s impact reached well beyond the Great Plains.
  • Even areas outside the strict “Dust Bowl” zone, across the northern and central Great Plains, experienced serious drought and agricultural damage during the same period.

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