Pecos Canyon, is a tributary 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 , 8.6 miles north northwest of

Juno, Texas Juno was a small unincorporated community in Val Verde County, Texas, United States, in the southwestern part of the state. Its last business closed in 1984, and the only remnant of Juno now is a lone ranch. What remains of the village was, by 20 ...

. In the 19th century, the place where the Devils River had its confluence with the creek at the mouth of Pecos Canyon was called 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 this point the San Antonio-El Paso Road left the Devils River to go northwest, 44 miles across

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 Government Canyon, a valley that heads at an elevation of 2483 feet at , and runs southwest to its mouth on Howard Draw in Crockett County, elevation 2014 feet. Government Canyon was a place along the route where the San Antonio-El Paso Road lef ...

and

Howard Draw 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 to its foot on the Pecos River in Val Verde County, elevation 1575 feet. Howard Draw is also a stre ...

to Howard Spring, then 30.44 miles on to Live Oak Creek and Fort Lancaster, 3 miles further on at 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 ...

.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

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