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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.
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 ...
The Texas and Pacific Railway built through Reeves County in 1881, with stations at Pecos [15] and Toyah. [16] By 1890, the Pecos River Railway [17] had built from Pecos to New Mexico. Toyahvale, [18] which means "flowing water", became the western terminus of the railroad. Balmorhea State Park was built at Toyahvale by the Civilian ...
Phantly Roy Bean Jr. (c. 1825 – March 16, 1903) was an American saloon-keeper and Justice of the Peace in Val Verde County, Texas, who called himself "The Only Law West of the Pecos". According to legend, he held court in his saloon along the Rio Grande on a desolate stretch of the Chihuahuan Desert of southwest Texas.
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 ...
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]
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 Yates Oil Field is a giant oil field in the Permian Basin of west Texas. Primarily in extreme southeastern Pecos County, it also stretches under the Pecos River and partially into Crockett County. Iraan, on the Pecos River and directly adjacent to the field, is the nearest town. The field has produced more than one billion barrels of oil ...