Mining at the Peeler Ranch

In the late 1970s, the Peeler family sold and leased a large chunk of its South Texas ranch to some rural electric cooperatives to build a power plant and mine the lignite it would run on. San Miguel Electric Cooperative took over operations in 1978.

Peeler Ranch headquarters

San Miguel Electric

Cooperative Power Plant

Peeler Ranch boundary

Mine permit boundaries

Peeler Ranch

headquarters

Peeler Ranch

boundary

San Miguel

Electric

Cooperative

Power Plant

Mine permit

boundaries

• Source: Google Earth Pro, Texas Railroad Commission, Peeler family
• Credit: Carla Astudillo