55 miles in one hour, so each mile is traveled in 1/55 hour. Hence 30 miles will be traveled in (1/55) x 30 = 6/11 hours = 0.545 hours. 4 people found this useful. Edit.
A Digital Gateway to Texas History. LAMESA, TEXAS (Dawson County). Lamesa, the county seat of Dawson County, is on U.S. highways 180 and 87, State highways 137 and 349, Farm roads 179, 826, and 827, and the Santa Fe Railroad, and Sulphur Springs Draw, sixty miles south of Lubbock in the central part of the county.
In 1856 the Texas state legislature established Palo Pinto County from Bosque and Navarro counties and named for Palo Pinto Creek. The county was organized the next year, with the town of Golconda chosen to be the seat of government.