Live Oak Creek (Crockett County, Texas)
Live Oak Creek is a stream with its source in Reagan County, Texas, at an elevation of 2,938 feet (896 m), and runs southward to its mouth at an elevation of 2,001 feet (610 m) on the Pecos River in Crockett County, Texas.[1] Fort Lancaster was located east of the creek's mouth.[citation needed]
Live Oak Creek was a water source on the San Antonio–El Paso Road, 30.44 miles (48.99 km) from Howard Springs, 3 miles (4.8 km) from Fort Lancaster, and 7.29 miles (11.73 km) from Pecos Crossing.[2]
On July 9, 1857, Edward Fitzgerald Beale described it:
Live Oak creek is a clear and beautiful stream of sweet and cool water; the grass very fine, and wood, (oak, mesquite, and willow,) abundant. Just before descending into the valley of the stream we came to a very steep, rocky hill, overlooking a valley of great beauty and graceful shape. The sides of the hills were covered with the most brilliant verdure and flowers.[3]: 22
References
[edit]- ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Live Oak Creek
- ^ Table of distances from Texas Almanac, 1859, Book, ca. 1859; digital images, (http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth123765/ accessed November 12, 2013), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, http://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Texas State Historical Association, Denton, Texas
- ^ Beale, Edward Fitzgerald (1858). Wagon Road from Fort Defiance to the Colorado River: Letter from the Secretary of War, Transmitting the Report of the Superintendent of the Wagon Road from Fort Defiance to the Colorado River: Issue 124 of [U.S.] 35th Cong., 1st sess. House. Ex. doc. Harvard University.
30°39′08″N 101°42′31″W / 30.65222°N 101.70861°W
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