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Salado Creek (/ s ə ˈ l ɑː d oʊ / sə-LAH-doh) is a waterway in San Antonio that runs from northern Bexar County for about 38 miles (61 km) to the San Antonio River near Buena Vista. [ 1 ] Watershed
Salado Creek, originally Arroyo Salado Grande (Big Salt Creek) is a tributary of the San Joaquin River draining eastern slopes of part of the Diablo Range within the Central Valley of California, United States. The Creek ends before it reaches the San Joaquin River, north of Patterson in Stanislaus County. [2] [3]
Salado (/ s ə ˈ l eɪ d oʊ / sə-LAY-doh) is a village in Bell County, Texas, United States. Salado was first incorporated in 1867 for the sole purpose of building a bridge across Salado Creek. In 2000, the citizens of Salado voted in favor of reincorporation, before which it was a census-designated place. The population was 2,394 at the ...
In late summer of 1848 (after Texas had become a U.S. state), a group of La Grange citizens retrieved the remains of the men killed in the Dawson Massacre from their burial site near Salado Creek. These remains, and the remains of the men killed in the failed Mier Expedition , were reinterred in a common tomb in a concrete vault on a bluff one ...
The Battle of the Salado was a decisive engagement in 1842 which repulsed the final Mexican invasion of the Republic of Texas. Colonel Mathew Caldwell of the Texas Rangers led just over 200 militia against an army of 1,600 Mexican Army soldiers and Cherokee warriors , and defeated them outside of San Antonio de Bexar along Salado Creek .
Salado Springs is the name of five groups of springs at the town of Salado in Bell County, Texas, in the United States. [1] The springs are located 48 miles (77 km) north of Austin or 135 miles (217 km) south of Dallas. The springs, which are not saline (salado is Spanish for "salty"), were likely named for Salado Creek.
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On September 17, 1842, [1] Texian and Mexican forces engaged at Salado Creek, east of San Antonio. After a separate favorable Texian engagement earlier in the day, a reinforcement company of 54 Texas militia, mostly from Fayette County, under the command of Nicholas Mosby Dawson, began advancing on the rear of the Mexican Army.