Hudson Canyon, is a valley and a
tributary ephemeral 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 ...
of the
Devils River in
Val Verde County, Texas
Val Verde County is a 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. In 1936, Val Verde County received Recorded Texas Historic Landmark number 5625 to co ...
. It has its source at at an elevation of 1780 feet. Its mouth has its confluence with Devil's River a short distance below Bakers Crossing at 1499 feet.
History
In the 19th century, the place near where the Devils River had its confluence with the creek at the mouth of Hudson Canyon was the location of
Camp Hudson Camp Hudson, later Fort Hudson was located on the west bank of the Devils River, below the Second Crossing of Devils River by the San Antonio-El Paso Road, (now known as Bakers Crossing nearby to the north) and 19 miles south of Juno and 21 miles ...
just south the second crossing of Devil's River by the
San Antonio-El Paso Road.
[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] Camp Hudson and Hudson Canyon were named for 2nd Lieutenant Walter W. Hudson, an American soldier who died in the area on 19 April 1850 in fighting with local Native Americans.
See also
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List of rivers of Texas
References
Devils River (Texas)
Landforms of Val Verde County, Texas
Valleys of Texas
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