Turkey Creek, near Cline, Texas in western Uvalde County,[2] was a watering stop and crossing place on the San Antonio-El Paso Road 9.04 miles west of crossing on the Nueces River and 15.23 miles from its crossing of Elm Creek.[3] From 1871 to the 1881 the Turkey Creek Stage Stop was located near the crossing, run by Celeste Pingenot, who also had a store and saloon there, This became the town of Turkey Creek, then Wallace before being changed to Cline shortly after the Texas and New Orleans Railroad arrived there.[4]
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^U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Turkey Creek
turkey, creek, nueces, river, tributary, turkey, creek, tributary, nueces, river, with, source, kinney, county, texas, 24222, 11556, 24222, 11556, passes, through, uvalde, dimmit, counties, mouth, espantosa, lake, espantosa, slough, south, crystal, city, zaval. Turkey Creek a tributary of the Nueces River with its source in Kinney County Texas 29 14 32 N 100 06 56 W 29 24222 N 100 11556 W 29 24222 100 11556 It passes through Uvalde and Dimmit Counties to its mouth at Espantosa Lake in Espantosa Slough south of Crystal City in Zavala County Texas 1 History EditTurkey Creek near Cline Texas in western Uvalde County 2 was a watering stop and crossing place on the San Antonio El Paso Road 9 04 miles west of crossing on the Nueces River and 15 23 miles from its crossing of Elm Creek 3 From 1871 to the 1881 the Turkey Creek Stage Stop was located near the crossing run by Celeste Pingenot who also had a store and saloon there This became the town of Turkey Creek then Wallace before being changed to Cline shortly after the Texas and New Orleans Railroad arrived there 4 References Edit U S Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System Turkey Creek 29 14 36 N 100 04 58 W 29 24333 N 100 08278 W 29 24333 100 08278 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 Ruben E Ochoa CLINE TX Handbook of Texas Online accessed January 17 2014 Published by the Texas State Historical Association Coordinates 28 37 59 N 99 49 36 W 28 63306 N 99 82667 W 28 63306 99 82667 This article related to a river in Texas is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Turkey Creek Nueces River tributary amp oldid 979358728, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
