SQUAW CREEK REVISITED- May have found it- not sure. Something in my memory said look at maps again. The Texas Almanac, published by Dallas Moriung News, county maps show thew Squaw Creek Neuclear Plant resivoir in Somerville and Hood Counties and Squaw Creek is mapped to below Tolar, a short distance from the Erath County line Somervell County is the third smallest county in the State. Between Berry's Creek, Erath County and Robinson Creek - \thorp Springs (Old TCU Home after Waco & before Fort Worth) - between Lipan, Hood County and Bluff Dale, Erath County, Squaw Creek could easily have Erath County watershed. - east of Morgan Mill. The Prairie Branch or Hurley Branch of the Duffau flows several miles before most maps show and Squaw Creek could too. Seems Dad mentioned that . i didn't always listen good. FM 1189 goes that direction. Don't know how I missed that as much as we used to ride our Motorcycles on the Paluxy. National Endurance runs were run there in 1920-40's and some rallies out of Hico still are. The Squaw Creek hits the Paluxy at Camp Tres Rios, a camping, swimming, and bluegrass music center. A mile or less down it hits the Brazos and goes through a narrow pass. i have seen several acres flooded there before Possum kingdom Dam was finished at Mineral Wells. Hwy 67 to Cleburne would be closed. Also the Steinbeck Bend where the horshoe bend of the Brazos meets the Bosque below Lovers Leap used to flood a few hundred acres of flat land where Baylor has now found a herd of Mastadon cows and babies, the cows apparently trying to hold the babies head above water or mud. East Waco used to flood from the Brazos and the Bosque. Lake Waco is at the junction of the 4 Bosques, not on the Brazos. The Balcones Fault line follows the Bosque down the Brazos. That is our part time Lake Brazos where National Speedboat races are held. (The automatic levelling dams sometimes get logs jammed in them or the Hydraulic adjusting lines break). Still confused? I think Squaw Creek may start in Erath County, as do the Duffau, the East and North Bosque, the Paluxy, Richardson Creek, Pony Creek, Greens Creek, Alarm Creek, . , Sims Creek, Flag Branch, Indian Creek, Pole Holler , and a few more. Why did did Selden kids think they had to go to the Colorado Bend west of Lampassas to go fishing.? Are the fish bigger on the other side of the hill? Charles A. Wyly On Wed, 12 Aug 1998 18:13:44 EDT KLCoombs@aol.com writes: >Joe Lee wrote (Hi Cousin-in-law!) > ><<Mr Wyly, >Do you happen to know where Squaw Creek is? I am aware of the one by >Glen Rose but this one must be somewhere around the Duffau, >Johnsville, >etc. area.Looking fwd to hearing from you...Joe Lee in Evant, Texas>> > >Good Question! My ancestors Ellis Ragsdill, Sr. and his son John >Milligan >Ragsdill** >are shown the 1860 census as living at Squaw Creek, Erath County. As >two of >John's siblings turn up at Glen Rose by 1880, I had thought originally >that >Somervell may have been formed from Erath and it was basically the >same creek. >NOT SO, apparently. Somervell was formed from Hood and Johnson >counties, >neither of which were formed from Erath, so it must have been a >different >squaw creek. > >One thought occurred in doing a GNIS search, however. Erath County is >full of >dams. Any chance that Squaw Creek could have been a tributary of a >larger >creek like Duffau Creek or Green Creek, etc etc that has been lost by >having >been dammed up or its source being dammed up or something like that. >Just a >thought. I know VERY little about hte county and am handicapped by >never >having BEEN there. > >Can Mr. Wyly enlighten us on when these dams were built and on any >lost place >names, etc. resulting from this? > >I'll bet if we looked in land records, Joe, for our respective >ancestors who >lived on Squaw Creek, we might get some latitude and longitude >coordinates >that would tell us where these places were?????? Or were the grants >like >colonial ones, with the boundaries being landmarks like "the hollow >tree" and >"the corner of Jones' place" > >Kathryn Coombs > > _____________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com Or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]