Rancheros Creek

Rancheros Creek
Ranchero Creek, Comanche Creek
stream
Country United States
State Texas
Region Uvalde County
Part of Sabinal River, Frio River, Nueces River
Tributaries
 - left Comanche Creek, Little Comanche Creek
 - right Elm Creek
Source source
 - location ten miles south of Utopia, Uvalde County, Texas
 - elevation 1,480 ft (451 m)
 - coordinates 29°30′08″N 99°27′25″W / 29.50222°N 99.45694°W / 29.50222; -99.45694 [1]
Mouth mouth
 - location confluence with Sabinal River, four miles south of Sabinal., Uvalde County, Texas
 - elevation 814 ft (248 m) [1]
 - coordinates 29°15′08″N 99°27′44″W / 29.25222°N 99.46222°W / 29.25222; -99.46222Coordinates: 29°15′08″N 99°27′44″W / 29.25222°N 99.46222°W / 29.25222; -99.46222 [1]
Length 26 mi (42 km)

Rancheros Creek is a tributary stream of the Sabinal River, in Medina County and Uvalde County, Texas.[1]

Rancheros Creek runs 26 miles from its source in hills 10 miles south of Uvalde, Texas.[1] It runs southeast for a few miles being joined from the left bank by Comanche Creek, then to Comanche Waterhole where it has its confluence with Little Comanche Creek before turning to the southwest and running to its confluence with the Sabinal River, four miles south of Sabinal. Midway on this reach of the creek Elm Creek joins it from the right bank southeast of Sabinal.[2] [3] [4] [5]

Rancheros Creek was a watering place for travelers on the San Antonio-El Paso Road including the stagecoach lines like the San Antonio-El Paso Mail and San Antonio-San Diego Mail Line.[6][7]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Rancheros Creek
  2. ↑ "RANCHEROS CREEK," Handbook of Texas Online (http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/rbr09), accessed December 01, 2013. Published by the Texas State Historical Association.
  3. ↑ USGS 1:24K topographic map Flatrock Crossing, TX
  4. ↑ USGS 1:24K topographic map Comanche Waterhole, TX
  5. ↑ USGS 1:24K topographic map Sabinal, TX
  6. ↑ Table of distances from Texas Almanac, 1859, Book, ca. 1859; digital images, (http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth123765/ accessed November 12, 2013), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, http://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Texas State Historical Association, Denton, Texas
  7. ↑ Wayne R. Austerman, "SAN ANTONIO-EL PASO MAIL," Handbook of Texas Online (http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/eus01), accessed November 22, 2013. Published by the Texas State Historical Association.
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