Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The West Frio River rises from springs in northeastern Real County and joins with the East Frio River near the town of Leakey; the Dry Frio River joins northeast of Uvalde. The river flows generally southeast for 200 miles until it empties into the Nueces River south of the town of Three Rivers. Along the way, the Frio River provides water to ...
1868: Theophilus Watkins, F. Smith and Newman Patterson construct a gravity flow irrigation canal from the Frio River that operates for a century. [7] [8] 1879: Indians attack and kill Jennie Coalson, wife of Nic Coalson, and two children at Half Moon Prairie. [9] 1881: Lipan Apaches strike the McLauren home at Buzzard's Roost in the Frio Canyon.
Frio County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 census, its population was 18,385. [1] The county seat is Pearsall. [2] The county was created in 1858 and later organized in 1871. [3] Frio is named for the Frio River, whose name is Spanish for "cold". [4]
Garner State Park, in the Texas Hill Country, is the most popular state park in Texas [citation needed] for overnight camping. It often fills by noon in peak parts of the season. The park is popular with campers and local residents for its activities on the Frio River and the dances held nightly during the spring and summer.
The Guadalupe, San Antonio, Frio, Medina, and Nueces Rivers originate in the Hill Country. This region is a dividing line for certain species occurrence. For example, the California fan palm (Washingtonia filifera) is the only species of palm tree that is native to the continental United States west of the Hill Country's Balcones Fault. [9]
Hondo Creek is a tributary of the Frio River in Texas that rises in Bandera County northwest of Tarpley and runs approximately 67 miles to its mouth near Pearsall, Texas. The creek crosses through three counties including Bandera, Medina , and Frio .
Frio River • average: 29.78 cu ft/s (0.843 m 3 /s) at mouth with Frio River: Basin features; Progression: Frio River → Nueces River → Nueces Bay → Corpus Cristi Bay → Gulf of Mexico: River system: Frio River: Tributaries • left: Bailey Creek Hackberry Creek Dinner Creek • right: Little Blanco Creek: Bridges
Mount Ol' Baldy is the sole mountain located in Garner State Park.The main trail up the mountain is the most popular trail in Garner State Park and spans nearly 500 feet in elevation.