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Pecos (/ ˈ p eɪ k ə s / PAY-kəs [4]) is the largest city in and the county seat of Reeves County, Texas, United States. [5] It is in the valley on the west bank of the Pecos River at the eastern edge of the Chihuahuan Desert, in the Trans-Pecos region of West Texas and just south of New Mexico's border.
The river later played a large role in the exploration of Texas by the Spanish. In the latter half of the 19th century, "West of the Pecos" was a reference to the rugged desolation of the Wild West. New Mexico and Texas disputed water rights to the river until the U.S. government settled the dispute in 1949 with the Pecos River Compact. [8]
Location of Pecos County in Texas. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Pecos County, Texas. This is intended to be a complete list of properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Pecos County, Texas. There are two districts and one individual property listed on the National ...
Pecos County (/ ˈ p eɪ k ə s / PAY-kəs [1]) is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 census, its population was 15,193. [2] The county seat is Fort Stockton. [3] The county was created in 1871 and organized in 1875. [4] [5] It is named for the Pecos River. It is one of the nine counties that comprise the Trans-Pecos ...
Pope's Crossing was a ford on the Pecos River located one mile south of the New Mexico–Texas border on the modern Loving–Reeves county line. Discovered by members of an 1855 expedition tasked with drilling artesian wells east of the Pecos led by U.S. Army topographical engineer John Pope, the ford quickly became the primary crossing of the river on the "upper" military or emigrant road ...
The Trans-Pecos, as originally defined in 1887 by the Texas geologist Robert T. Hill, is the distinct portion of Texas that lies west of the Pecos River. [1] The term is considered synonymous with Far West Texas, a subdivision of West Texas. [2] The Trans-Pecos is part of the Chihuahuan Desert, the largest desert in North America.
Pecos Classification, a division of all known Ancient Pueblo Peoples culture into chronological phases Pecos League , an independent professional baseball league headquartered in Houston Oryx/Pecos , a proprietary operating system developed by Bell Labs beginning in 1978, consisting of a kernel (Oryx) and the associated processes running on top ...
The Sierra Madera crater is a meteorite crater in southwestern Pecos County, Texas, United States. [1] The central peak of the rebound structure of the impact crater rises 793 ft (242 m) above the surrounding land. [3] The peak is visible from U.S. Highway 385 between Fort Stockton, Texas and Marathon, Texas. The Sierra Madera crater is located ...