Hi. Charles Wyly back again. The last count I heard was that since 1953 flood on the Bosque which went 30 feet over the 75 year mark and cost me a Pontiac, A Buick, parto of my Uncle's shop, and a short hospital stay, they have built 17 dams above Stephenville. Maybe more. Many more below- all dirt dams of a few acres each. Will be more built to keep Erath County dairy waste out of Lake Waco. Part of Lake Waco is poluted from Nitrates from McGregor Rockedyne Missle factory, now closed. They claim to be controlling the South Bosque runoff now. Middle Bosque is clean East Bosque and Flag Branch come from the top of the Ridge west of Glen Rose into the North Bosque near Iredell. Don't think The Squaw Creek would go into them- too close to the other Squaw Creek. In Grady perry's Grand Old Erath book he states that Erath County is the only county in the U.S. with no streams running into it- all run out out of it into the Bosque, the Brazos (Lipan) , the Leon, and The Paluxy . The Paluxy is the only undammed river in the State that size. A dam is planned above the rock crossings near Comanche Peak Neuclear Plant at Glen Rose above the State Park with the Dinosaur Tracks. If you go back to Glen Rose, see "The Promise " Pageant in outdoor theatre and the Dinosaur indoor exhibit and the Creation Science Museu.m run by a P.Hd. former atheist who claims to have found human footprints in a dinosaur track and a fossilized finger in the same formation with a human looking nail on it. Also stop at Fossil Rim Wildlife Refuge and camp out in the Glen Rose parks. Sulphur water no longer flows freely. 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]