Howard Draw is a valley that heads in the extreme south of Reagan County, Texas at an elevation of 2720 feet at , and runs through

Crockett County Crockett County is the name of two counties in the United States, both named for frontiersman and politician Davy Crockett: * Crockett County, Tennessee * Crockett County, Texas Crockett County is a county located on the Edwards Plateau in th ...

to its foot on the

Pecos River The Pecos River ( es, Río Pecos) originates in north-central New Mexico and flows into Texas, emptying into the Rio Grande. Its headwaters are on the eastern slope of the Sangre de Cristo mountain range in Mora County north of Pecos, New Mexico ...

Val Verde County Val Verde County is a County (United States), county located on the southern Edwards Plateau in the U.S. state of Texas. The 2020 population is 47,586. Its county seat is Del Rio, Texas, Del Rio. In 1936, Val Verde County received Recorded Te ...

, elevation 1575 feet. Howard Draw is also a

stream A stream is a continuous body of water, body of surface water Current (stream), flowing within the stream bed, bed and bank (geography), banks of a channel (geography), channel. Depending on its location or certain characteristics, a stream ...

arroyo Arroyo often refers to: * Arroyo (creek), an intermittently dry creek Arroyo may also refer to: People * Arroyo (surname) Places United States ;California * Arroyo Burro Beach, a public beach park in Santa Barbara County, California * Arroyo ...

, formerly known as Howard Creek it is an ephemeral stream within Howard Draw, tributary to the

in Texas. The historical Howard Springs, and an important waterhole on the San Antonio-El Paso Road were located in Howard Creek just above Government Canyon in Howard Draw. Howard Draw was 44 miles along the route the San Antonio-El Paso Road took northwestward to the Pecos River after it left the

Head of Devil's River Head of Devil's River, a place on the Devils River where it has its confluence with Pecos Canyon at an elevation of 1722 feet, below Beaver Lake, nineteen and a half miles above the second crossing of Devils River. Here the San Antonio-El Paso ...

at Pecos Canyon, crossing

Johnson Draw Johnson Draw, also formerly known as Johnsons Run and Johnson Creek, is a tributary of the Devils River in Val Verde County, Texas. It has its source in Crockett County, Texas at , 17.0 miles north northwest of Ozona, Texas. See also *List of ri ...

, Government Canyon to Howard Draw and Howard Springs. It was 30.44 miles on to Live Oak Creek and

Fort Lancaster Fort Lancaster is a former United States Army installation located near Sheffield, Texas. The fort was established in 1855 on the San Antonio–El Paso Road to protect migrants moving toward California through Texas. The US Army occupied Fort Lanc ...

, 3 miles further on at the

.W. R. Livermore, Military Map of the Rio Grande Frontier, Crimmins (Martin Lalor) Map Collection, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, University of Texas, Austin, 1881, from cah.utexas.edu accessed January 25, 2014

References

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USGS Geographic Names Information Service
*USGS Hydrologic Unit Map - State of Texas (1974) Pecos River Landforms of Crockett County, Texas Landforms of Reagan County, Texas Landforms of Val Verde County, Texas San Antonio–El Paso Road Valleys of Texas {{ValVerdeCountyTX-geo-stub