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The Pecos River (/ ˈ p eɪ k ə s / PAY-kəs; [4] Spanish: Río Pecos) originates in north-central New Mexico and flows into Texas, emptying into the Rio Grande.Its headwaters are on the eastern slope of the Sangre de Cristo mountain range in Mora County north of Pecos, New Mexico, at an elevation of over 12,000 feet (3,700 m). [5]
Pandale is located in Val Verde County at a Pecos River crossing, four miles south of the conjunction of Texas Ranch to Market Road 1024 and the Langtry-Pandale Road, at which point the Pandale Church stands. Pandale can be reached by traveling north from Langtry on the Langtry-Pandale County Road, an unpaved caliche county road.
Horsehead Crossing is a ford on the Pecos River in Crane County, south of Odessa, Texas. [1] Historically, it was a major landmark on the trail west as one of a few fordable sections of the Pecos in West Texas , and as the first reliable source of water for about 75 miles on the route from the east.
The road intersects FM 11 in Imperial before crossing the Pecos River into Crane County. [5] The road intersects SH 329 in Tubbs Corner [ 6 ] and turns to the northwest crossing FM 1233 [ 5 ] and entering Ector County before terminating at I-20 [ 7 ] approximately 7.5 miles (12.1 km) west of Penwell.
The Edwards Plateau is a geographic region forming the crossroads of Central, South and West Texas, United States.It is named in honor of Haden Edwards. [2] It is bounded by the Balcones Fault to the south and east; the Llano Uplift and the Llano Estacado to the north; and the Pecos River and Chihuahuan Desert to the west. [3]
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 Pecos River — a tributary of the Rio Grande in West Texas. ... Pecos Wilderness; Pope's Crossing; T. Texas v. New Mexico
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.